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... Professor Blumenbach's 161 Anti - religious state of Germany at this time Scene from " The Rovers " . Coleridge ... Professor Wilson's testimony to Coleridge's poetical merit 181 Anecdote from " Archenholz's Seven Years ' War ...
... Professor Blumenbach's 161 Anti - religious state of Germany at this time Scene from " The Rovers " . Coleridge ... Professor Wilson's testimony to Coleridge's poetical merit 181 Anecdote from " Archenholz's Seven Years ' War ...
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... Professor Blumenbach in particular Spinozism ..... Giordano Bruno Mr. Wordsworth and his sister visit Göttingen 186 186 et seq . 193 195 196 Sir H. Davy introduced to Coleridge by Mr. Cottle A winter's evening in London 198 199 ...
... Professor Blumenbach in particular Spinozism ..... Giordano Bruno Mr. Wordsworth and his sister visit Göttingen 186 186 et seq . 193 195 196 Sir H. Davy introduced to Coleridge by Mr. Cottle A winter's evening in London 198 199 ...
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... Professor Turton's , from Paley 299 The Liturgy of the Church of England , admirable Observations on Psalm ii . 7 . ......... ...... 301 302 303 ...... 304 308 Quotation from Leslie relative to the above text Critical letter of Mr. P ...
... Professor Turton's , from Paley 299 The Liturgy of the Church of England , admirable Observations on Psalm ii . 7 . ......... ...... 301 302 303 ...... 304 308 Quotation from Leslie relative to the above text Critical letter of Mr. P ...
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... professors of chris- tianity . In his Charges and Sermons , there is perhaps as much sound divinity as can be found any where in the same compass ; and however we may revere the * The distinction which Pembroke College enjoys , for the ...
... professors of chris- tianity . In his Charges and Sermons , there is perhaps as much sound divinity as can be found any where in the same compass ; and however we may revere the * The distinction which Pembroke College enjoys , for the ...
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... professor who had offended them ; or , it might be with no other intention than to honour him with a 66 pereat , " indicative of a further rod in pickle , unless he complied with their terms . They were so busy at their work of ...
... professor who had offended them ; or , it might be with no other intention than to honour him with a 66 pereat , " indicative of a further rod in pickle , unless he complied with their terms . They were so busy at their work of ...
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Page 253 - For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
Page 140 - DURING the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours, our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination.
Page 62 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, And the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers...
Page 62 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Page 80 - But the age of chivalry is gone! that of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever! !Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Page 140 - In the one the incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatural ; and the excellence aimed at was to consist in the interesting of the affections by the dramatic truth of such emotions as would naturally accompany such situations, supposing them real.
Page 90 - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes, As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music...
Page 66 - By quick instinctive motion, up I sprung, As thitherward endeavouring, and upright Stood on my feet: about me round I saw Hill, dale, and shady woods, and sunny plains, And liquid lapse of murmuring streams; by these Creatures that lived and moved, and walked or flew; Birds on the branches warbling; ~a.ll things smiled; With fragrance and with joy my heart o'erflowed.
Page 291 - ... feet. But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power ? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart ? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
Page 98 - What sighs have been wafted after that ship ! what prayers offered up at the deserted fireside of home ! How often has the mistress, the wife, the mother, pored over the daily news, to catch some casual intelligence of this rover of the deep ! How has expectation darkened into anxiety — anxiety into dread — and dread into despair ! Alas ! not one memento shall ever return for love to cherish. All that shall ever be known, is, that she sailed from her port, « and was never heard of more ! »...