The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 15Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1819 |
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... give the best turn thy fertile brain will furnish thee with to the blunders of thy country . men , who are not much better politicians than the French are poets . ' The duke of Shrewsbury was , soon after , sent on a formal embassy to ...
... give the best turn thy fertile brain will furnish thee with to the blunders of thy country . men , who are not much better politicians than the French are poets . ' The duke of Shrewsbury was , soon after , sent on a formal embassy to ...
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... it neces- sary to form some story , and give a kind of body to the Poem . Under what species it may be com- prehended , whether Didascalic or Heroic , I leave to the judgment of the critics , desiring them to 18 PREFACE . Preface.
... it neces- sary to form some story , and give a kind of body to the Poem . Under what species it may be com- prehended , whether Didascalic or Heroic , I leave to the judgment of the critics , desiring them to 18 PREFACE . Preface.
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... give of his adventures , and in the accumulated praises of his heroine Glo- riana . The whole would have been an heroic poem , but in another cast and figure than any that had ever been written before . Yet it is observable can judge by ...
... give of his adventures , and in the accumulated praises of his heroine Glo- riana . The whole would have been an heroic poem , but in another cast and figure than any that had ever been written before . Yet it is observable can judge by ...
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... give all just praise to many of my friends , now living , who have in Epic carried the harmony of their numbers as far as the nature of this measure will permit : but , once more , he that writes in rhymes dances in fetters ; and as his ...
... give all just praise to many of my friends , now living , who have in Epic carried the harmony of their numbers as far as the nature of this measure will permit : but , once more , he that writes in rhymes dances in fetters ; and as his ...
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... give up here the fruits of many of my vacant hours to their amusement and plea- sure , I shall always think myself happy if I may dedicate my most serious endeavours to their in- terest and service : and I am proud to finish this ...
... give up here the fruits of many of my vacant hours to their amusement and plea- sure , I shall always think myself happy if I may dedicate my most serious endeavours to their in- terest and service : and I am proud to finish this ...
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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.