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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... Letters to Miss Seward . Contributions to the " Gentleman's Magazine . " - Ode . - Sonnets . - Letters to Miss Seward • PAGE 1 CHAPTER II . 1790-1796 . Enters at Christ Church . - His College Life . - Letters to Miss Seward and his ...
... Letters to Miss Seward . Contributions to the " Gentleman's Magazine . " - Ode . - Sonnets . - Letters to Miss Seward • PAGE 1 CHAPTER II . 1790-1796 . Enters at Christ Church . - His College Life . - Letters to Miss Seward and his ...
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... Letter to his Wife.- Sermons . - Letters to his Wife and Mr. Price . - Literary Journal for 1798 , 1799. - Letters to Mr. Price and his Sister CHAPTER V. 117 1800-1804 . Mr. Cary is presented to the Vicarage of Kingsbury . - Letter to ...
... Letter to his Wife.- Sermons . - Letters to his Wife and Mr. Price . - Literary Journal for 1798 , 1799. - Letters to Mr. Price and his Sister CHAPTER V. 117 1800-1804 . Mr. Cary is presented to the Vicarage of Kingsbury . - Letter to ...
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... Letters to Mr. and Mrs. Price . - Literary Journal for 1813. - Letter to Mr. Price . His Dante little noticed . - His means ; education of his children . - Translation from Pignotti of the Friar- Ass . Takes the curacy of Chiswick . - ...
... Letters to Mr. and Mrs. Price . - Literary Journal for 1813. - Letter to Mr. Price . His Dante little noticed . - His means ; education of his children . - Translation from Pignotti of the Friar- Ass . Takes the curacy of Chiswick . - ...
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With His Literary Journal and Letters Henry Francis Cary Henry Cary. I want to find some method of returning you Miss Williams's letter , which I have read over and over with repeated pleasure . One passage pleased me particularly ...
With His Literary Journal and Letters Henry Francis Cary Henry Cary. I want to find some method of returning you Miss Williams's letter , which I have read over and over with repeated pleasure . One passage pleased me particularly ...
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With His Literary Journal and Letters Henry Francis Cary Henry Cary. FROM MR . NICHOLS . SIR , Nov. 17 , 1788 . I am much obliged by your polite note of the 12th , and for the kindness you express in wishing ... LETTER FROM MR . NICHOLS . 21.
With His Literary Journal and Letters Henry Francis Cary Henry Cary. FROM MR . NICHOLS . SIR , Nov. 17 , 1788 . I am much obliged by your polite note of the 12th , and for the kindness you express in wishing ... LETTER FROM MR . NICHOLS . 21.
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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.