Memoir of the Rev. Henry Francis Cary, M. A., Translator of Dante: With His Literary Journal and Letters, Volume 1E. Moxon, 1847 |
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... leave , On the loved spot Spring's earliest bloom to strew , For my benumbed brow To twine the cypress bough , Or from the green to brush the noxious dew ; And when the winter rude , In wild ungoverned mood , Bids the swollen brook in ...
... leave , On the loved spot Spring's earliest bloom to strew , For my benumbed brow To twine the cypress bough , Or from the green to brush the noxious dew ; And when the winter rude , In wild ungoverned mood , Bids the swollen brook in ...
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... leave , content to haunt her peaceful plains , Ambition's height to some more restless soul ; For this , as long as life shall e'er infuse Its quickly - circling currents in our veins , We vow our bosoms to her loved controul . TO MISS ...
... leave , content to haunt her peaceful plains , Ambition's height to some more restless soul ; For this , as long as life shall e'er infuse Its quickly - circling currents in our veins , We vow our bosoms to her loved controul . TO MISS ...
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... leaves * , Sport without pain and love without alloy ; If such the poor and humble peasant's state , Alas ! what folly to be wise or great . * In mirth that after no repenting draws . - Milton . CHAPTER II . 1790-1796 . Enters at Christ ...
... leaves * , Sport without pain and love without alloy ; If such the poor and humble peasant's state , Alas ! what folly to be wise or great . * In mirth that after no repenting draws . - Milton . CHAPTER II . 1790-1796 . Enters at Christ ...
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... leaving the wilds of fancy , as he himself says , turned himself to another walk of poetry in which he was so much more fitted to excel . But we have lately conde- scended to go back a little to our old masters , and to them and the ...
... leaving the wilds of fancy , as he himself says , turned himself to another walk of poetry in which he was so much more fitted to excel . But we have lately conde- scended to go back a little to our old masters , and to them and the ...
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... leave now to introduce to you Christopher Sherive , clergyman of Blandford , in Dorsetshire , who , approaching with due obeisance to the toilet of the Muse , deposits for her inspection the following copy of rhymes " THE COSMETIC ...
... leave now to introduce to you Christopher Sherive , clergyman of Blandford , in Dorsetshire , who , approaching with due obeisance to the toilet of the Muse , deposits for her inspection the following copy of rhymes " THE COSMETIC ...
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Page 197 - 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 211 - 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 165 - For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God : for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
Page 211 - 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 183 - 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 165 - 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 38 - 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 22 - The pruner's voice the pleasing dream prolongs, Stock-doves and turtles tell their amorous pain, And, from the lofty elms, of love complain.
Page 184 - ... the next life will produce effects to which the apprehension of it in this had been insufficient, and end, after a long course of ages, in the reformation of the worst characters. But the principle that this effect is possible — that the heart may be reclaimed by force, is at best precarious ; and the only safe principle of human conduct is the belief, that unrepented sin will suffer endless punishment hereafter.