The lives of the most eminent English poetsJ. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Sons, L. Davis, B. White and Son ... [and 36 others in London], 1787 |
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... said he , " is owing to you ; for you put it " in my head by the question you put to me at Chal- " font , which otherwife I had not thought of . " His laft poetical offspring was his favourite . He could not , as Elwood relates , endure ...
... said he , " is owing to you ; for you put it " in my head by the question you put to me at Chal- " font , which otherwife I had not thought of . " His laft poetical offspring was his favourite . He could not , as Elwood relates , endure ...
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... said , that they are not bad ; and perhaps only the eighth and the twenty - firft are truly entitled to this flen- der commendation . The fabrick of a fonnet , however adapted to the Italian language , has ever fucceeded in ours , which ...
... said , that they are not bad ; and perhaps only the eighth and the twenty - firft are truly entitled to this flen- der commendation . The fabrick of a fonnet , however adapted to the Italian language , has ever fucceeded in ours , which ...
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... said , at last to the rump - jewel , he folicited from Cromwell permiffion to return , and obtained it by the intereft of colonel Scroop , to whom his fifter was married . Upon the remains of a fortune , which the danger of his life had ...
... said , at last to the rump - jewel , he folicited from Cromwell permiffion to return , and obtained it by the intereft of colonel Scroop , to whom his fifter was married . Upon the remains of a fortune , which the danger of his life had ...
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... said Waller , " are dim , and I do not know it . " The king faid , it was the princefs of Orange . 66 " She " is , " " faid Waller , " like the greatest woman in the " world . " The King afked who was that ? and was anfwered , Queen ...
... said Waller , " are dim , and I do not know it . " The king faid , it was the princefs of Orange . 66 " She " is , " " faid Waller , " like the greatest woman in the " world . " The King afked who was that ? and was anfwered , Queen ...
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... said to him , My Lord , I ❝am a great deal older than your grace , and have , I " believe , heard more arguments for atheism than ever 66 your grace did ; but I have lived long enough to fee " there is nothing in them ; and fo , I hope ...
... said to him , My Lord , I ❝am a great deal older than your grace , and have , I " believe , heard more arguments for atheism than ever 66 your grace did ; but I have lived long enough to fee " there is nothing in them ; and fo , I hope ...
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98 페이지 - ... 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...
77 페이지 - 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'er-flowing full.
21 페이지 - I am yet unable to move or turn myself in my bed. This is my personal fortune here to begin with. And, besides, I can get no money from my tenants,' and have my meadows eaten up every night by cattle put in by my neighbours. What this signifies, or may come to in time, God knows ; if it be ominous, it can end in nothing less than hanging.
383 페이지 - Of him that knows much, it is natural to suppose that he has read with diligence ; yet I rather believe that the knowledge of Dryden was gleaned from accidental intelligence and various conversation, by a quick apprehension, a judicious selection, and a happy memory, a keen appetite of knowledge, and a powerful digestion...
406 페이지 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : When Nature underneath a heap of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high. Arise ye more than dead. Then cold and hot, and moist and dry, In order to their stations leap, And music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man.
268 페이지 - Repentance, trembling in the presence of the Judge, is not at leisure for cadences and epithets. Supplication of man to man may diffuse itself through many topics of persuasion ; but supplication to God can only cry for mercy.
473 페이지 - 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.
24 페이지 - The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.
126 페이지 - I have a particular occasion to remember; for whereas I had the perusal of it from the very beginning : for some years as I went from time to time to visit him , in a parcel of ten , twenty , or thirty verses at a time, which being written by whatever hand came next , might possibly want correction as to the orthography and pointing...
377 페이지 - Learning once made popular is no longer learning ; it has the appearance of something which we have bestowed upon ourselves, as the dew appears to rise from the field which it refreshes.