Biographia Borealis: Or, Lives of Distinguished NorthernsWhitaker, Treacher, 1833 - 732 pagina's |
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Pagina 65
Or, Lives of Distinguished Northerns Hartley Coleridge. RICHARD BENTLEY , D.D. THE life of BENTLEY is not a pleasing retrospect . It affords a painful proof that peaceful pursuits are not always pursued in peace— that the irascible ...
Or, Lives of Distinguished Northerns Hartley Coleridge. RICHARD BENTLEY , D.D. THE life of BENTLEY is not a pleasing retrospect . It affords a painful proof that peaceful pursuits are not always pursued in peace— that the irascible ...
Pagina 67
... Bentley employed , or misemployed , his faculties , but whether the predominance assented by classical studies over all other human knowledge , is rightfully conceded . Never for a moment would we allow it to be disputed that Mozart and ...
... Bentley employed , or misemployed , his faculties , but whether the predominance assented by classical studies over all other human knowledge , is rightfully conceded . Never for a moment would we allow it to be disputed that Mozart and ...
Pagina 68
... Bentley's personal and literary history . RICHARD BENTLEY was born at Oulton , a village near Leeds , in Yorkshire , on the 27th of January , 1662. His lineage was neither so high , nor so low , as it has sometimes been represented ...
... Bentley's personal and literary history . RICHARD BENTLEY was born at Oulton , a village near Leeds , in Yorkshire , on the 27th of January , 1662. His lineage was neither so high , nor so low , as it has sometimes been represented ...
Pagina 69
... Bentley's academical studies , no record has been preserved . That he then laid the foundation of his accurate and extensive knowledge of the classics , and attained that nice perception of their poetical measures , for which he stands ...
... Bentley's academical studies , no record has been preserved . That he then laid the foundation of his accurate and extensive knowledge of the classics , and attained that nice perception of their poetical measures , for which he stands ...
Pagina 70
... Bentley was designed for a different sphere : he did not preside over the school more than a twelvemonth , -too short a period to afford means of estimating his merits as an instructor , and scarcely sufficient to place his name upon ...
... Bentley was designed for a different sphere : he did not preside over the school more than a twelvemonth , -too short a period to afford means of estimating his merits as an instructor , and scarcely sufficient to place his name upon ...
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Pagina 313 - I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly, as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened — yea, presently sometimes, with pinches, nips and bobs, and other ways, which I will not name for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered — that...
Pagina 313 - I bear them) so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr. Elmer ; who teacheth me so gently, so pleasantly, with such fair allurements to learning, that I think all the time nothing while I am with him.
Pagina 59 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Pagina 508 - Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven! — Oh! times, In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in romance! When Reason seemed the most to assert her rights, When most intent on making of herself A prime Enchantress — to assist the work, Which then was going forward in her name!
Pagina 270 - The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : xo Plain living and high thinking are no more...
Pagina 72 - When I wrote my Treatise about our System *, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose.
Pagina 262 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Pagina 692 - This is a fine rebuke. Congreve's remains lay in state in the Jerusalem Chamber, and he was buried in Westminster Abbey, where a monument was erected to his memory by Henrietta, Duchess of Marlborough, to whom he bequeathed £10,000. the accumulation of attentive parsimony. The Duchess purchased with £7,000 of the legacy a diamond necklace.
Pagina 455 - And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve...
Pagina 289 - I have been bullied by an usurper ; I have been neglected by a court ; but I will not be dictated to by a subject : your man shan't stand. " ANNE Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery.