Lives of Sacred Poets, Volym 2J.W. Parker, 1838 - 363 sidor |
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... appearance of the Laureate's biography ; and in two or three instances my inqui- ries had anticipated both his treatment and illustration of the subject . The history of Milton has been so frequently written , vi PREFACE .
... appearance of the Laureate's biography ; and in two or three instances my inqui- ries had anticipated both his treatment and illustration of the subject . The history of Milton has been so frequently written , vi PREFACE .
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... appearance and manner at this period are recorded in the eulogistic epigram addressed to him by Manso , who found nothing but a change of religion necessary to his perfection . 66 Dr. Johnson has ridiculed the rapidity of Milton's ...
... appearance and manner at this period are recorded in the eulogistic epigram addressed to him by Manso , who found nothing but a change of religion necessary to his perfection . 66 Dr. Johnson has ridiculed the rapidity of Milton's ...
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... appeared in the same year . The subject of dispute was the divine or human origin of episcopacy , and its consequent authority in the churcht . Of all the combatants Usher alone seems to have preserved the benignity of his spirit ...
... appeared in the same year . The subject of dispute was the divine or human origin of episcopacy , and its consequent authority in the churcht . Of all the combatants Usher alone seems to have preserved the benignity of his spirit ...
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... appeared his Tractate on Education , and the Areopagitica , or Speech for the Liberty of Unli- censed Printing , the most eloquent and highly - wrought prose production of his pen ; and which , in the opinion of Sir James Mackintosh ...
... appeared his Tractate on Education , and the Areopagitica , or Speech for the Liberty of Unli- censed Printing , the most eloquent and highly - wrought prose production of his pen ; and which , in the opinion of Sir James Mackintosh ...
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... appeared in a small volume of elegies , with which the university honoured the memory of her son . Dr. Johnson always wrote and spoke of this poem with great severity , and he told Miss Seward that he would hang a dog that read Lycidas ...
... appeared in a small volume of elegies , with which the university honoured the memory of her son . Dr. Johnson always wrote and spoke of this poem with great severity , and he told Miss Seward that he would hang a dog that read Lycidas ...
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Sida 234 - The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree ; And seem by Thy sweet bounty made For those who follow Thee.
Sida 133 - Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green ; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between.
Sida 132 - GIVE me the wings of faith, to rise Within the vail, and see The saints above — how great their joys, How bright their glories be ! 2 Once they were mourning here below, And wet their couch with tears ; They wrestled hard, as we do now, With sins, and doubts, and fears.
Sida 108 - Direct, control, suggest this day All I design, or do, or say, That all my powers, with all their might, In Thy sole glory may unite ! Praise God, from whom all blessings flow!
Sida 22 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model...
Sida 20 - I was confirmed in this opinion that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.
Sida 240 - E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream Thy flowing wounds supply, Redeeming love has been my theme, And shall be till I die.
Sida 234 - There, if thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh, with what peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her God...
Sida 250 - He loved the world that hated him : the tear That dropped upon his Bible was sincere : Assailed by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was, a blameless life ; And he that forged, and he that threw the dart, Had each a brother's interest in his heart.
Sida 310 - No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half...