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... , if there were nothing but this inferior bent of herself to restrain her . Lastly , the love of learning , as it is the pursuit of something good , it would sooner follow the more excellent and 6 INTRODUCTORY SELECTIONS.
... , if there were nothing but this inferior bent of herself to restrain her . Lastly , the love of learning , as it is the pursuit of something good , it would sooner follow the more excellent and 6 INTRODUCTORY SELECTIONS.
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John Milton James Holly Hanford. good , it would sooner follow the more excellent and supreme good known and presented , and so be quickly diverted from the empty and fantastic chase of shadows and notions , to the solid good flowing ...
John Milton James Holly Hanford. good , it would sooner follow the more excellent and supreme good known and presented , and so be quickly diverted from the empty and fantastic chase of shadows and notions , to the solid good flowing ...
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... , if there were nothing but this inferior bent of herself to restrain her . Lastly , the love of learning , as it is the pursuit of something good , it would sooner follow the more excellent and 6 INTRODUCTORY SELECTIONS.
... , if there were nothing but this inferior bent of herself to restrain her . Lastly , the love of learning , as it is the pursuit of something good , it would sooner follow the more excellent and 6 INTRODUCTORY SELECTIONS.
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John Milton James Holly Hanford. good , it would sooner follow the more excellent and supreme good known and presented , and so be quickly diverted from the empty and fantastic chase of shadows and notions , to the solid good flowing ...
John Milton James Holly Hanford. good , it would sooner follow the more excellent and supreme good known and presented , and so be quickly diverted from the empty and fantastic chase of shadows and notions , to the solid good flowing ...
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... if there were nothing but this inferior bent of herself to restrain her . Lastly , the love of learning , as it is the pursuit of something - good , it would sooner follow the more excellent and 6 INTRODUCTORY SELECTIONS.
... if there were nothing but this inferior bent of herself to restrain her . Lastly , the love of learning , as it is the pursuit of something - good , it would sooner follow the more excellent and 6 INTRODUCTORY SELECTIONS.
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Page 49 - Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm ; Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high, lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear, With thrice-great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Page 85 - And all their echoes, mourn. The willows, and the hazel copses green, Shall now no more be seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays. As killing as the canker to the rose, Or taint-worm to the weanling herds that graze, Or frost to flowers, that their gay wardrobe wear, When first the white-thorn blows ; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear.
Page 90 - And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes. Now, Lycidas, the shepherds weep no more ; Henceforth thou art the genius of the shore In thy large recompense, and shalt be good To all that wander in that perilous flood.
Page 88 - And purple all the ground with vernal flowers. Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears ; Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, 150 To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
Page 20 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Page 176 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 44 - Stoutly struts his dames before : Oft listening how the hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumbering morn, From the side of some hoar hill, Through the high wood echoing shrill...
Page 120 - Arch-Angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 50 - Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass On which the Tartar king did ride...
Page 45 - And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And, crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.