Works, Volume 1Henry Francis Cary H. G. Bohn, 1847 |
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... never saw him , nor heard of him till after his Ode to General Elliott ' came out . My acquaint- ance with him is not of four months ' date . His schoolfellow and friend , Lister , an inhabitant of this place , has poetic talents of ...
... never saw him , nor heard of him till after his Ode to General Elliott ' came out . My acquaint- ance with him is not of four months ' date . His schoolfellow and friend , Lister , an inhabitant of this place , has poetic talents of ...
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... Never did I meet with a person who appeared to me to form so strong an exception to that received opinion , of the impossibility of human nature's arriving at perfection . Do not be angry with me for not giving yourself LETTERS TO MISS ...
... Never did I meet with a person who appeared to me to form so strong an exception to that received opinion , of the impossibility of human nature's arriving at perfection . Do not be angry with me for not giving yourself LETTERS TO MISS ...
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... never wrote anything that pleased my fancy so well . It is sententious , simple , and sublime , and a perfect model of that species of composition . The break in the eighth line has a wonderfully striking effect , and the image in your ...
... never wrote anything that pleased my fancy so well . It is sententious , simple , and sublime , and a perfect model of that species of composition . The break in the eighth line has a wonderfully striking effect , and the image in your ...
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... never to encroach upon your kindness by exercising it too often . Your strictures on Spence's criticism of the Odyssey gave me great pleasure . In general I accorded with you , but on some poetic topics we are fated to disagree . Such ...
... never to encroach upon your kindness by exercising it too often . Your strictures on Spence's criticism of the Odyssey gave me great pleasure . In general I accorded with you , but on some poetic topics we are fated to disagree . Such ...
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... never read them before , will afford her great pleasure , is very much at Miss Lawrence's service . " The Rambler " I should far prefer to all the other writings of Johnson . " The Lives of the Poets , " though they are replete with his ...
... never read them before , will afford her great pleasure , is very much at Miss Lawrence's service . " The Rambler " I should far prefer to all the other writings of Johnson . " The Lives of the Poets , " though they are replete with his ...
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Page 89 - Si le rétablissement des sciences et des arts a contribué à épurer les mœurs 1 Avertissement
Page 225 - 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 270 - 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 221 - For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God : for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
Page 299 - 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 301 - There is more weighty bullion sense in this book than I ever found in the same number of pages in any uninspired writer.
Page 298 - 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...
Page 243 - By that its.ill-deservings are to be measured, — not by the narrowness of the limits, either of time or place, within which the good providence of God hath confined its power of doing mischief. If, on any ground, it were safe to indulge a hope that the suffering of the wicked may have an end, it would be upon the principle adopted by the great Origen, and by other eminent examples of learning and piety which our own times have seen,— that the actual endurance of punishment in the next life will...
Page 22 - I much wonder that you should listen to the idea, that a fondness for Italian poetry is the corruption of our taste, when you cannot but recollect that our greatest English poets, Chaucer, Spenser, and Milton have been professed admirers of the Italians, and that the sublimer province of poetry, imagination, has been more or less cultivated among us, according to the degree of estimation in which they have been held...
Page 220 - 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.