Memoir of the Rev. Henry Francis Cary, M. A., Translator of Dante: With His Literary Journal and Letters, Volumes 1-2E. Moxon, 1847 |
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... interest accounts of the struggles of party , of the aspirings of ambition , nay , even of the windings and shiftings to which the mean and the unworthy must have re- course , than we do the uneventful and unimpassioned history of those ...
... interest accounts of the struggles of party , of the aspirings of ambition , nay , even of the windings and shiftings to which the mean and the unworthy must have re- course , than we do the uneventful and unimpassioned history of those ...
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... interest . In the present instance the disposition and tendencies of the child exactly correspond with the temper and habits of the full - grown man . Those marks which throughout a long after - life distinguished the moral and ...
... interest . In the present instance the disposition and tendencies of the child exactly correspond with the temper and habits of the full - grown man . Those marks which throughout a long after - life distinguished the moral and ...
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... Interest's selfish call , — Man for a nobler aim was born to live ; One charm of Nature is worth more than all The empty pleasures wealth and folly give . If you happen to see Lycid alone soon , be so kind as to shew him these verses ...
... Interest's selfish call , — Man for a nobler aim was born to live ; One charm of Nature is worth more than all The empty pleasures wealth and folly give . If you happen to see Lycid alone soon , be so kind as to shew him these verses ...
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... interest in the fate of my friend . I know you will not delay telling him what a happy and unexpected turn it has taken . While this circumstance so entirely occupies my thoughts , it is with a fainter degree of pleasure than usual that ...
... interest in the fate of my friend . I know you will not delay telling him what a happy and unexpected turn it has taken . While this circumstance so entirely occupies my thoughts , it is with a fainter degree of pleasure than usual that ...
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... Interest's lures her dear control ? Ah no ; for though the partial hand of Fate Has to my lot assigned a moderate dole , Yet in my views , proportioned to my state , No airy dreams of wealth or grandeur roll . Content to scorn the ...
... Interest's lures her dear control ? Ah no ; for though the partial hand of Fate Has to my lot assigned a moderate dole , Yet in my views , proportioned to my state , No airy dreams of wealth or grandeur roll . Content to scorn the ...
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Page 247 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
Page 243 - For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God : for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
Page 323 - For there are in nature certain fountains of justice, whence all civil laws are derived but as streams : and like as waters do take tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments where they are planted, though they proceed from the same fountains.
Page 325 - There is more weighty bullion sense in this book than I ever found in the same number of pages in any uninspired writer.
Page 235 - IN the midway1 of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct : and e'en to tell, It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet, to discourse of what there good befel, All else will I relate discover'd there.
Page 294 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks...
Page 306 - NOW was the hour that wakens fond desire In men at sea, and melts their thoughtful heart Who in the morn have bid sweet friends farewell, And pilgrim newly on his road with love Thrills, if he hear the vesper bell from far, That seems to mourn for the expiring day...
Page 243 - Against thy only Son? What fury O Son, Possesses thee to bend that mortal Dart Against thy Fathers head?
Page 202 - Empire in the year 1795 : and Herbert Marsh's History of the Politics of Great Britain and France, from the Conference at Pilnitz to the Declaration of War against Great Britain. June 29. Read the twelfth book of the Odyssey, with Price. 30. Began Marino's Adone, and read canto i. Began Burnet's History of his own Times. July 1. Continued Burnet. 2. Continued Burnet; and read canto iii. of the Adone. 3. Read canto iv. of the Adone.
Page 322 - Necesse est ut eam, tion ut vivam : but it may be truly affirmed that there was never any philosophy, religion, or other discipline, which did so plainly and highly exalt the good which is communicative...