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... virtue made it innocent to him , yet nothing could make it quiet . Those were the reasons that made him to follow the violent inclination of his own mind , which , in the greatest throng of his former business , had still called upon ...
... virtue made it innocent to him , yet nothing could make it quiet . Those were the reasons that made him to follow the violent inclination of his own mind , which , in the greatest throng of his former business , had still called upon ...
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... virtue and such ingredients , have made A mithridate , whose operation Keeps off , or cures what can be done or sald . Though the following lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have something in them too scholastic , they ...
... virtue and such ingredients , have made A mithridate , whose operation Keeps off , or cures what can be done or sald . Though the following lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have something in them too scholastic , they ...
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... virtue ; yet the gods his fate decreed . Then Hypanis and Dymas , wounded by Their friends ; nor thee , Pantheus , thy piety , Nor consecrated mitre , from the same Ill fate could save , my country's funeral flam And Troy's cold ashes I ...
... virtue ; yet the gods his fate decreed . Then Hypanis and Dymas , wounded by Their friends ; nor thee , Pantheus , thy piety , Nor consecrated mitre , from the same Ill fate could save , my country's funeral flam And Troy's cold ashes I ...
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... virtue ; and all tell what they do not know to be true , only to * This is inaccurately expressed : Philips , and Dr ... virtues and excellencies of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists , but we are ...
... virtue ; and all tell what they do not know to be true , only to * This is inaccurately expressed : Philips , and Dr ... virtues and excellencies of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists , but we are ...
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... virtue , overpowering and resist- * It may be doubted whether gloriosissimus be here used with Milton's boasted purity . Res gloriosa is an illustrious thing ; but vir gloriosus is commonly a brag- In this second defence he shows that ...
... virtue , overpowering and resist- * It may be doubted whether gloriosissimus be here used with Milton's boasted purity . Res gloriosa is an illustrious thing ; but vir gloriosus is commonly a brag- In this second defence he shows that ...
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Page 26 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 103 - GRAND CHORUS. As from the power of sacred lays, the spheres began to move, and sung the great Creator's praise to all the bless'd above; so when the last and dreadful hour this crumbling pageant shall devour, the trumpet shall be heard on high, the dead shall live, the living die, and Music shall untune the sky.
Page 21 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.
Page 252 - Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more : for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said, that, if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems.
Page 25 - But the truth is that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth and prove by events the reasonableness of...
Page 120 - At this man's table I enjoyed many cheerful and instructive hours, with companions such as are not often found— with one who has lengthened, and one who has gladdened life; with Dr. James, whose skill in physic will be long remembered; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend. But what are the hopes of man! I am disappointed by that stroke of death, which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
Page 21 - No flight for thoughts, but poorly stick at words, A new and nobler way thou dost pursue, To make translations and translators too, They but preserve the ashes; thou the flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame.
Page 39 - Among the flocks, and copses, and flowers, appear the heathen deities ; Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and ^Eolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as a college easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite...
Page 252 - Iliad, and freed it from some of its imperfections; and the "Essay on Criticism" received many improvements after its first appearance. It will seldom be found that he altered without adding clearness, elegance, or vigour. Pope had perhaps the judgment of Dryden; but Dryden certainly wanted the diligence of Pope. In acquired knowledge, the superiority must be allowed to Dryden, whose education was more scholastic, and who before he became an author had been allowed more time for study, with better...
Page 161 - Whistling thro' hollows of this vaulted aisle : Well listen — LEONORA. Hark ! ALMERIA. No, all is hush'd and still as death.— 'Tis dreadful ! How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and...