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Sida 17
... death of the Swedish Prince was so far from being the motive of Rinaldo's return to the wars , that Rinaldo seems never to have heard either of that person or of his fate until he was delivered from the garden of Armida , and on his ...
... death of the Swedish Prince was so far from being the motive of Rinaldo's return to the wars , that Rinaldo seems never to have heard either of that person or of his fate until he was delivered from the garden of Armida , and on his ...
Sida 19
... death of Sir Philip Sydney which de- prived him of spirit to continue his captivating poem , since the greater part was written after that event ; but the poet's domestic misfortunes , occasioned by Tyrone's rebellion , which seem at ...
... death of Sir Philip Sydney which de- prived him of spirit to continue his captivating poem , since the greater part was written after that event ; but the poet's domestic misfortunes , occasioned by Tyrone's rebellion , which seem at ...
Sida 25
... death are invented daily ; something new in philosophy , and the mechanics , is discovered almost every year ; and the science of former ages is improved by the succeeding . I will not detain you with a long preamble to that , which ...
... death are invented daily ; something new in philosophy , and the mechanics , is discovered almost every year ; and the science of former ages is improved by the succeeding . I will not detain you with a long preamble to that , which ...
Sida 77
... part of his debts , he continued to labour under pecuniary embarrassments untill his father's death , and even after he had succeeded to his entailed property . 1 and made him tribunus militum , a colonel in a ESSAY ON SATIRE . 77.
... part of his debts , he continued to labour under pecuniary embarrassments untill his father's death , and even after he had succeeded to his entailed property . 1 and made him tribunus militum , a colonel in a ESSAY ON SATIRE . 77.
Sida 87
... death are disputed ; but it is certain he flourished under Domitian , famous for his cruelty against men and insects . Juvenal was banished by the ty- * The learned Barten Holyday was born at Oxford , ESSAY ON SATIRE . 87.
... death are disputed ; but it is certain he flourished under Domitian , famous for his cruelty against men and insects . Juvenal was banished by the ty- * The learned Barten Holyday was born at Oxford , ESSAY ON SATIRE . 87.
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Sida 26 - Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words.
Sida 178 - Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue.
Sida 27 - Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come. 21 But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince.
Sida 26 - And I Daniel alone saw the vision: for the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves.
Sida 26 - His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
Sida 399 - He sung the secret seeds of Nature's frame; How seas, and earth, and air, and active flame, Fell through the mighty void, and, in their fall, Were blindly gather'd in this goodly ball.
Sida 102 - Quidquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas, gaudia, discursus, nostri est farrago libelli.
Sida 95 - ... railed, I might have suffered for it justly ; but I managed my own work more happily, perhaps more dexterously. I avoided the mention of great crimes, and applied myself to the representing of blindsides, and little extravagancies ; to which, the wittier a man is, he is generally the more obnoxious.
Sida 17 - The English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton, who neither of them wanted either genius or learning to have been perfect poets; and yet both of them are liable to many censures.
Sida 386 - The last great age, foretold by sacred rhymes, Renews its finished course : Saturnian times Roll round again ; and mighty years, begun From their first orb, in radiant circles run. The base degenerate iron offspring ends : A golden progeny from heaven descends.