The Cambridge History of English Literature: From Steele and Addison to Pope and SwiftSir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller The University Press, 1912 - English literature |
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... Edinburgh Minor Versifiers of the Age . Younger Contemporaries of Dryden : George Granville ( Lord Lansdowne ) ; William Walsh . Duke , Stepney , Yalden and William King . Older contemporaries of Pope : Isaac Watts and his ' Hymns ...
... Edinburgh Minor Versifiers of the Age . Younger Contemporaries of Dryden : George Granville ( Lord Lansdowne ) ; William Walsh . Duke , Stepney , Yalden and William King . Older contemporaries of Pope : Isaac Watts and his ' Hymns ...
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... Edinburgh A Sermon preached to the People at the Mercat Cross of Edinburgh on the subject of the Union , and , before long , he was in close touch with Robert Harley , who had begun to plot against the duke and duchess of Marlborough ...
... Edinburgh A Sermon preached to the People at the Mercat Cross of Edinburgh on the subject of the Union , and , before long , he was in close touch with Robert Harley , who had begun to plot against the duke and duchess of Marlborough ...
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... Edinburgh ( 1706 ) was in defence of the union with England , then under discussion . The text was ' Better is he that laboureth and aboundeth in all things , than he that boasteth himself and wanteth bread . ' Arbuthnot's countrymen ...
... Edinburgh ( 1706 ) was in defence of the union with England , then under discussion . The text was ' Better is he that laboureth and aboundeth in all things , than he that boasteth himself and wanteth bread . ' Arbuthnot's countrymen ...
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... Edinburgh in 16981 , is thoroughly characteristic of the writer , who , plunging into the midst of the war of pamphlets on the question of standing armies which raged after the peace of Ryswyk , was ready with a complete plan for ...
... Edinburgh in 16981 , is thoroughly characteristic of the writer , who , plunging into the midst of the war of pamphlets on the question of standing armies which raged after the peace of Ryswyk , was ready with a complete plan for ...
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... Edinburgh , afterwards studied at Leyden , and spent some time at Oxford , where he wrote Christianity not mysterious ( 1696 ) . He led a strenuous and varied life , with somewhat uncertain means of livelihood . He was the object of ...
... Edinburgh , afterwards studied at Leyden , and spent some time at Oxford , where he wrote Christianity not mysterious ( 1696 ) . He led a strenuous and varied life , with somewhat uncertain means of livelihood . He was the object of ...
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Page 285 - Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be, viz. that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind...
Page 85 - But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
Page 302 - ... the nearer we search into human nature, the more we shall be convinced, that the moral virtues are the political offspring which flattery begot upon pride.
Page 172 - Can I forget the dismal night, that gave My soul's best part for ever to the grave ? How silent did his old companions tread, By midnight lamps, the mansions of the dead, Through breathing statues, then unheeded things, Through rows of warriors, and through walks of kings...
Page 123 - He gave the little wealth he had, To build a house for fools and mad: And showed by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much: That kingdom he hath left his debtor, I wish it soon may have a better.
Page 102 - ... instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax ; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
Page 103 - I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
Page 313 - Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry'.
Page 120 - STELLA this day is thirty-four, (We sha'n't dispute a year or more :) However, Stella, be not troubled, Although thy size and years are doubled Since first I saw thee at sixteen, The brightest virgin on the green ; So little is thy form declined ; Made up so largely in thy mind.