The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 15Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1819 |
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... THEE CANTOS . Canto I. — II . III TALES . The Turtle and Sparrow , an elegiac Tale The Ladle Truth and Falsehood The Mice . To Mr. Adrian Drift To a young Gentleman in Love The Conversation P. Purganti and his Wife Protogenes and ...
... THEE CANTOS . Canto I. — II . III TALES . The Turtle and Sparrow , an elegiac Tale The Ladle Truth and Falsehood The Mice . To Mr. Adrian Drift To a young Gentleman in Love The Conversation P. Purganti and his Wife Protogenes and ...
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... 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 France 8 LIFE OF PRIOR .
... 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 France 8 LIFE OF PRIOR .
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... thee they breathe , they move , they taste , they They show their passions , by their acts , like thee ; Darting their stings , they previously declare Design'd revenge , and fierce intent of war : Laying their eggs , they evidently ...
... thee they breathe , they move , they taste , they They show their passions , by their acts , like thee ; Darting their stings , they previously declare Design'd revenge , and fierce intent of war : Laying their eggs , they evidently ...
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... thee— Parent of wicked , bane of honest deeds , Pernicious Flattery ! thy malignant seeds In an ill hour , and by a fatal hand , Sadly diffus'd o'er Virtue's gleby land , With rising pride amidst the corn appear , And choke the hopes ...
... thee— Parent of wicked , bane of honest deeds , Pernicious Flattery ! thy malignant seeds In an ill hour , and by a fatal hand , Sadly diffus'd o'er Virtue's gleby land , With rising pride amidst the corn appear , And choke the hopes ...
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... thee with mirth , therefore enjoy pleasure . ' chap . ii . ver . 1 . Eccles . I made me great works ; I builded me houses ; I planted me vineyards , ver . 4 . I made me gardens and orchards , and I planted trees in them of all kind of ...
... thee with mirth , therefore enjoy pleasure . ' chap . ii . ver . 1 . Eccles . I made me great works ; I builded me houses ; I planted me vineyards , ver . 4 . I made me gardens and orchards , and I planted trees in them of all kind of ...
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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.