The Pursuits of Literature: A Satirical Poem in Four Dialogues, with NotesT. Becket, 1801 - 574 pages |
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... wish to see any mistakes in a work so extensive continued without correction , nor the various parts of it presented to the public without such improvements , alterations , and additions to the poetry and the notes , as circumstances ...
... wish to see any mistakes in a work so extensive continued without correction , nor the various parts of it presented to the public without such improvements , alterations , and additions to the poetry and the notes , as circumstances ...
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... wishes to enforce . Impertinence and falshood I have at all times equally despised , and equally neglected . It will ... wish to have his " enemy . To my authorship they are heartily " welcome . Rome permitted her slaves to " calumniate ...
... wishes to enforce . Impertinence and falshood I have at all times equally despised , and equally neglected . It will ... wish to have his " enemy . To my authorship they are heartily " welcome . Rome permitted her slaves to " calumniate ...
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... wishes . I am satisfied with the attention which has been given to it ; and when I have commanded a silence within my own breast , I think a still small voice may whisper those gratulations , from which an honest man may best derive ...
... wishes . I am satisfied with the attention which has been given to it ; and when I have commanded a silence within my own breast , I think a still small voice may whisper those gratulations , from which an honest man may best derive ...
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... wish not to vindi- cate , but to explain myself . The object of the work , is a View of Literature . The Poem itself is , " A Conversation . " on the various subjects of Literature , in a very extended " sense , as it affects public ...
... wish not to vindi- cate , but to explain myself . The object of the work , is a View of Literature . The Poem itself is , " A Conversation . " on the various subjects of Literature , in a very extended " sense , as it affects public ...
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... wish her to exhibit this Poem , as the " Donum fatalis virgæ , longo post tempore " visum . " My book is open to all the accumulated severity of public criticism , and public reprehension : I shrink from neither of them . When I am ...
... wish her to exhibit this Poem , as the " Donum fatalis virgæ , longo post tempore " visum . " My book is open to all the accumulated severity of public criticism , and public reprehension : I shrink from neither of them . When I am ...
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Page 256 - For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Page 171 - First in his east the glorious lamp was seen, Regent of day, and all the horizon round Invested with bright rays, jocund to run His longitude through heaven's high road ; the gray Dawn and the Pleiades before him danced, Shedding sweet influence.
Page 452 - Wise men have said are wearisome; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior (And what he brings, what needs he elsewhere seek) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself...
Page 257 - And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place, and his eyes began to wax dim, that he could not see...
Page 193 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 107 - The notes I could wish to be very large, in what relates to the persons concerned; for I have long observed that twenty miles from London nobody understands hints, initial letters, or town facts and passages; and in a few years not even those who live in London.
Page 432 - History of Hindostan ;" its Arts and its Sciences, as connected with the history of the other great empires of Asia, during the most ancient periods of the world; with numerous illustrative Engravings,
Page 254 - I take to be the discovery of the certainty or probability of such propositions or truths, which the mind arrives at by deduction made from such ideas which it has got by the use of its natural faculties, viz. by sensation or reflection. Faith, on the other side, is the assent to any proposition, not thus made out by the deductions of reason, but upon the credit of the proposer, as coming from God in some extraordinary way of communication.
Page 286 - THOUGH for no other cause, yet for this ; that posterity may know we have not loosely through silence permitted things to pass away as in a dream, there shall be for men's information extant thus much concerning the present state of the Church of God established amongst us, and their careful endeavour which would have upheld the same.
Page xix - I will not sit unconcerned while my liberty is invaded, nor look in silence upon public robbery.