Lives of Sacred Poets, Volume 2J.W. Parker, 1838 - 363 pages |
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... religious opinions appears to have been his only indiscretion . In the fervour of his zeal the maxim of Sir Henry Wotton was either forgotten or despised . " I laid it down , " he says , as a rule for myself never to begin a ...
... religious opinions appears to have been his only indiscretion . In the fervour of his zeal the maxim of Sir Henry Wotton was either forgotten or despised . " I laid it down , " he says , as a rule for myself never to begin a ...
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... religious patience and resignation which it drew from the poet . He warns his revilers to desist from their dreamy forgeries con- cerning him , declaring that he neither repines at , nor repents him of his lot ; acquiescing humbly in ...
... religious patience and resignation which it drew from the poet . He warns his revilers to desist from their dreamy forgeries con- cerning him , declaring that he neither repines at , nor repents him of his lot ; acquiescing humbly in ...
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... religious warfare , with his eyes still intently turned to the time , when he should have calm and delightful communion with the muses ; thirdly , when in old age all the lofty visions of earthly perfection faded in disappointment when ...
... religious warfare , with his eyes still intently turned to the time , when he should have calm and delightful communion with the muses ; thirdly , when in old age all the lofty visions of earthly perfection faded in disappointment when ...
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... religious opinions . During his imprisonment his wife is said to have sat on a stone by the gaol - door , with the poet , then an infant , at her breast . Isaac , who was the eldest of nine children , evinced , from his earliest years ...
... religious opinions . During his imprisonment his wife is said to have sat on a stone by the gaol - door , with the poet , then an infant , at her breast . Isaac , who was the eldest of nine children , evinced , from his earliest years ...
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... religious subject , is too ridiculous to be credited for a moment . The story is probably only a different version of a circumstance that actually occurred to Sir Richard Black- more , who , when he requested the celebrated Dr. Syden ...
... religious subject , is too ridiculous to be credited for a moment . The story is probably only a different version of a circumstance that actually occurred to Sir Richard Black- more , who , when he requested the celebrated Dr. Syden ...
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Page 234 - The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree ; And seem by Thy sweet bounty made For those who follow Thee.
Page 133 - Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green ; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between.
Page 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.
Page 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!
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 310 - No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half...