The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 15Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1819 |
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... birth , had not the earl of Dorset , as it is said , accidentally discovered him reading Horace , and been so well pleased with his proficiency as to undertake the expense of his edu- cation . He entered St. John's college , in ...
... birth , had not the earl of Dorset , as it is said , accidentally discovered him reading Horace , and been so well pleased with his proficiency as to undertake the expense of his edu- cation . He entered St. John's college , in ...
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... birth , our poet acted without a title , until his high - born grace returned . He had acquir- ed the favour of the king , and the confidence of his ministers . But his dignity seems to have been ra- ther meanly supported . He had no ...
... birth , our poet acted without a title , until his high - born grace returned . He had acquir- ed the favour of the king , and the confidence of his ministers . But his dignity seems to have been ra- ther meanly supported . He had no ...
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... birth . The whole Nine may be said to have smiled ; for he has tried every sort of verse , from the heroic to the hudi- brastic ; and , what is a rare felicity , has treated all with so equal a hand , that it is difficult to designate ...
... birth . The whole Nine may be said to have smiled ; for he has tried every sort of verse , from the heroic to the hudi- brastic ; and , what is a rare felicity , has treated all with so equal a hand , that it is difficult to designate ...
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... thirsty earth , And bless the flowery buds ' succeeding birth ? May they not pity us , condemn'd to bear The various heaven of an obliquer sphere , While by fix'd laws , and with a just return 36 Book 1 . SOLOMON . Pleasure.
... thirsty earth , And bless the flowery buds ' succeeding birth ? May they not pity us , condemn'd to bear The various heaven of an obliquer sphere , While by fix'd laws , and with a just return 36 Book 1 . SOLOMON . Pleasure.
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... birth From trunk of oak , or pregnant womb of earth ? Whence then the old belief , that all began In Eden's shade and one created man ? Or , grant this progeny was wafted o'er By coasting boats from next adjacent shore , [ spring Would ...
... birth From trunk of oak , or pregnant womb of earth ? Whence then the old belief , that all began In Eden's shade and one created man ? Or , grant this progeny was wafted o'er By coasting boats from next adjacent shore , [ spring Would ...
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Page 52 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do : and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Page 26 - He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
Page 27 - And further, by these, my son, be admonished : of making many books there is no end ; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Page 26 - And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five. And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he epake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 85 - All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Page 52 - I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...
Page 26 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 85 - ... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return unto GOD Who gave it.
Page 86 - I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.