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Pagina xi
... given as his toast , ' Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies . ' It was in his father's school that Birkbeck Hill was educated until he matriculated at Oxford . The teaching was excellent , so far as it went ...
... given as his toast , ' Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies . ' It was in his father's school that Birkbeck Hill was educated until he matriculated at Oxford . The teaching was excellent , so far as it went ...
Pagina xiii
... the Life and Letters of Benjamin Jowett , i . 331 , where a portion of the late Master's obituary notice of him , contributed to the Times , is given . together day after day during one winter I passed with DR . BIRKBECK HILL xiii.
... the Life and Letters of Benjamin Jowett , i . 331 , where a portion of the late Master's obituary notice of him , contributed to the Times , is given . together day after day during one winter I passed with DR . BIRKBECK HILL xiii.
Pagina xvi
... given to them in their hopes and fears . Soon after settling at Burghfield he began to take an interest in the public affairs of the neighbourhood , and became a Poor Law Guardian of the Bradfield Union . For some time also he was ...
... given to them in their hopes and fears . Soon after settling at Burghfield he began to take an interest in the public affairs of the neighbourhood , and became a Poor Law Guardian of the Bradfield Union . For some time also he was ...
Pagina xvii
... given to these works , as regards the main purpose , was not thrown away . He would often say that he was trained by it in the duties of an editor , and strengthened in his hatred of carelessness and error . Yet again he was forced to ...
... given to these works , as regards the main purpose , was not thrown away . He would often say that he was trained by it in the duties of an editor , and strengthened in his hatred of carelessness and error . Yet again he was forced to ...
Pagina xxv
... given , to proceed immediately on the busi- ness . Accordingly a meeting was held , consisting of about forty of the most respectable booksellers of London , when it was agreed that an elegant and uniform edition of The English Poets ...
... given , to proceed immediately on the busi- ness . Accordingly a meeting was held , consisting of about forty of the most respectable booksellers of London , when it was agreed that an elegant and uniform edition of The English Poets ...
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Pagina 163 - In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral ; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted ; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind.
Pagina 276 - ... bowers to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close. And keep the flame from wasting by repose. I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my...
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Pagina 78 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Pagina 100 - Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and Justice are virtues and excellencies of all times and of all places; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance.
Pagina 88 - This he steadily denies, and it was apparently not true ; but it seems plain, from his own verses to Diodati, that he had incurred
Pagina 292 - Of sentiments purely religious, it will be found that the most simple expression is the most sublime. Poetry loses its lustre and its power, because it is applied to the decoration of something more excellent than itself.
Pagina 136 - I have a particular reason," says he, " to remember ; for whereas I had the perusal of it " from the very beginning, for some years, as I " went from time to time to visit him, in parcels of " ten, twenty, or thirty verses at a time (which, " being written by whatever hand came next, might " possibly want correction as to the orthography
Pagina 440 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.