Among My Books: First [-second] series, Том 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1898 - 380 стор. |
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... believe that it will hold in all great poets that , though they wrote before with a certain heat of genius which inspired them , yet that heat was not perfectly digested . " But artificial heat is never to be digested at all , as is ...
... believe that it will hold in all great poets that , though they wrote before with a certain heat of genius which inspired them , yet that heat was not perfectly digested . " But artificial heat is never to be digested at all , as is ...
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... believe , is the first application of the celestial portent to this particular comparison . Yet Milton's " imperial ensign waves defiant behind his impregnable lines , and even Campbell flaunts his " meteor flag " in Waller's face ...
... believe , is the first application of the celestial portent to this particular comparison . Yet Milton's " imperial ensign waves defiant behind his impregnable lines , and even Campbell flaunts his " meteor flag " in Waller's face ...
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... believe that he was conscious of any harm in them till he was attacked by Collier , and then ( with some protest against what he considers the undue severity of his censor ) he had the manliness to confess that he had done wrong . " It ...
... believe that he was conscious of any harm in them till he was attacked by Collier , and then ( with some protest against what he considers the undue severity of his censor ) he had the manliness to confess that he had done wrong . " It ...
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... believe all that is re- ported of an Arian ; but supposing the story to be true , there is only a short step from such a delusion of the senses to the complete ghost of popular legend . But , in some of the most trustworthy stories of ...
... believe all that is re- ported of an Arian ; but supposing the story to be true , there is only a short step from such a delusion of the senses to the complete ghost of popular legend . But , in some of the most trustworthy stories of ...
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... believe , and always will believe , on the same terms . When one comes along who can partly distinguish the thing seen from that travesty or distortion of it which the thou- sand disturbing influences within him and without him would ...
... believe , and always will believe , on the same terms . When one comes along who can partly distinguish the thing seen from that travesty or distortion of it which the thou- sand disturbing influences within him and without him would ...
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Сторінка 340 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Сторінка 361 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Сторінка 238 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Сторінка 185 - This castle hath a pleasant seat ; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses. BAN. This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Сторінка 322 - In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons. Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless...
Сторінка 13 - tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, ' We shall be blest With some new joys,
Сторінка 163 - Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all-oblivious...
Сторінка 4 - Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit, Their verses tallied. Easy was the task : A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask Of Poesy. Ill-fated, impious race ! That blasphemed the bright Lyrist to his face, And did not know it, — no, they went about, Holding a poor, decrepit standard out, Marked with most flimsy mottoes, and in large The name of one Boileau...
Сторінка 238 - ... to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors.
Сторінка 262 - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed...