Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British and American Authors, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 3Robert Chambers Amer. Book Exchange, 1879 - English literature |
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... fall , as it were , naturally without thought or pains into regu- lar and admirable.motions . Bid them change their parts , and they will in vain en- deavour to produce like motions in the members not used to them , and it will require ...
... fall , as it were , naturally without thought or pains into regu- lar and admirable.motions . Bid them change their parts , and they will in vain en- deavour to produce like motions in the members not used to them , and it will require ...
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... fall not themselves , are at least very hardly to be supported against the assaults of opposition . And thus men , being too hasty to erect to them- selves general notions and ill - grounded theories , find themselves deceived in their ...
... fall not themselves , are at least very hardly to be supported against the assaults of opposition . And thus men , being too hasty to erect to them- selves general notions and ill - grounded theories , find themselves deceived in their ...
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... fall of an apple to meditate on the law of gravitation , may be a mere myth - the apple may be as fabulous as the golden fruit of the Hes- perides ; but the train of thought which led to the discovery may have been suggested by some ...
... fall of an apple to meditate on the law of gravitation , may be a mere myth - the apple may be as fabulous as the golden fruit of the Hes- perides ; but the train of thought which led to the discovery may have been suggested by some ...
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... falling in power and honour ; rising out of the earth or waters , and falling into them , for the rising up to any dignity , or dominion , out of the inferior state of the people , or falling down from the same into that inferior state ...
... falling in power and honour ; rising out of the earth or waters , and falling into them , for the rising up to any dignity , or dominion , out of the inferior state of the people , or falling down from the same into that inferior state ...
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... falling of the stars , for the same ; new moons , for the return of a dispersed people into a body politic or ecclesiastic . Fire and meteors refer to both heaven and earth , and signify as follows : Burning anything with fire , is put ...
... falling of the stars , for the same ; new moons , for the return of a dispersed people into a body politic or ecclesiastic . Fire and meteors refer to both heaven and earth , and signify as follows : Burning anything with fire , is put ...
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Addison admiration afterwards Allan Ramsay AMBROSE PHILIPS ancient appear beauty blessed called character Charles II Christian church Colley Cibber court death delight discourse divine Dunciad earth England English Essay eyes fame fancy father fear fortune frae genius give grace Grongar Hill hand happy hath hear heart heaven honour Hudibras humour Iliad Ireland JONATHAN SWIFT king KITE lady learning letters live Lochaber look Lord mind moral nature never night o'er Oroonoko Ovid passion persons pleasure poem poet poetical poetry political poor Pope praise prince published reason religion rich rise satire says Scotland shew shining sing Sir William Temple soul speak spirit style Swift taste Tatler tell thee things thou thought tion truth verse virtue Whig wife wine write wrote
Popular passages
Page 315 - There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts. " Not such as Europe breeds in her decay ; Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. " Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 397 - Of man's miraculous mistakes this bears The palm, ' That all men are about to live, For ever on the brink of being born.' All pay themselves the compliment to think They one day shall not drivel : and their pride On this reversion takes up ready praise ; At least, their own ; their future selves applaud How excellent that life they ne'er will lead.
Page 299 - Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees : Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 193 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Page 87 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily : when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Page 290 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 182 - Aonian maids, Delight no more — O Thou my voice inspire Who touched Isaiah's hallowed lips with fire ! . Rapt into future times, the bard begun : A Virgin shall conceive, a Virgin bear a Son ! From Jesse's...
Page 283 - Cast thy eyes eastward, said he, and tell me what thou seest. I see, said I, a huge valley, and a prodigious tide of water rolling through it. The valley that thou seest, said he, is the vale of misery ; and the tide of water that thou seest, is part of the great tide of eternity. What is the reason...
Page 395 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the, knell of my departed hours : Where are they? With the years beyond the flood.
Page 194 - Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies. His wit all seesaw, between that and this, Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis.