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... tells us at the end of the " Religio Laici : 29 " And this unpolished , rugged verse I chose As fittest for discourse , and nearest prose . " Unpolished and rugged the verse certainly was not , nor in his hands could ever be . It is the ...
... tells us at the end of the " Religio Laici : 29 " And this unpolished , rugged verse I chose As fittest for discourse , and nearest prose . " Unpolished and rugged the verse certainly was not , nor in his hands could ever be . It is the ...
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... tell you where and how a thing differs for the worse from established precedent , but not where it differs for the better . This habit of mind would make him distrustful of himself and sterile in ori- ginal production , for his ...
... tell you where and how a thing differs for the worse from established precedent , but not where it differs for the better . This habit of mind would make him distrustful of himself and sterile in ori- ginal production , for his ...
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... tells us that " every sensation in Gray was passionate , " but I very much doubt whether he was capable of that sustained passion of the mind which is fed by a prevailing imagination acting on the consciousness of great powers . That ...
... tells us that " every sensation in Gray was passionate , " but I very much doubt whether he was capable of that sustained passion of the mind which is fed by a prevailing imagination acting on the consciousness of great powers . That ...
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... tells us that he wished rather to be looked on as a gentleman than as a man of letters , and this may have been partly true at a time when authorship was still lodged in Grub Street and in many cases deserved no better . Gray had the ...
... tells us that he wished rather to be looked on as a gentleman than as a man of letters , and this may have been partly true at a time when authorship was still lodged in Grub Street and in many cases deserved no better . Gray had the ...
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... tell you that one who has far more reason than you , I hope , will ever have to look on life with something worse than indifference , is yet no enemy to it , but can look backward on many bitter moments , partly with satisfaction , and ...
... tell you that one who has far more reason than you , I hope , will ever have to look on life with something worse than indifference , is yet no enemy to it , but can look backward on many bitter moments , partly with satisfaction , and ...
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Page 199 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Page 314 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 36 - And in my breast the imperfect joys expire. Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men ; The fields to all their wonted tribute bear ; To warm their little loves the birds complain : I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear, And weep the more, because I weep in vain.
Page 278 - There is no danger to a man, that knows What life and death is : there's not any law Exceeds his knowledge ; neither is it lawful That he should stoop to any other law : He goes before them, and commands them all, That to himself is a law rational.
Page 224 - Yet Lamb was hardly extravagant in saying that " the death scene of Marlowe's king moves pity and terror beyond any scene, ancient or modern, with which I am acquainted.
Page 234 - I'll have them fly to India for gold, Ransack the ocean for orient pearl, And search all corners of the new-found world For pleasant fruits and princely delicates; I'll have them read me strange philosophy And tell the secrets of all foreign kings...
Page 72 - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say...
Page 220 - From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as in a mirror, we perceive The highest reaches of a human wit; If these had made one poem's period, And all...
Page 117 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back...
Page 233 - All things that move between the quiet poles Shall be at my command : emperors and kings Are but obeyed in their several provinces, Nor can they raise the wind or rend the clouds ; But his dominion that exceeds in this Stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man, A sound magician is a mighty god : Here, Faustus, tire thy brains to gain a deity.