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Pagina 38
... style " prosing and versing . " He had successfully imitated the various modes of versification among continental writers , as well as those among his own countrymen , and had learned by experience which of them were best suited to the ...
... style " prosing and versing . " He had successfully imitated the various modes of versification among continental writers , as well as those among his own countrymen , and had learned by experience which of them were best suited to the ...
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... style . But Wyatt , although sufficiently distinguished from the common versifiers of his age , is confessedly inferior to Surrey in harmony of numbers , perspicuity of expression , and facility of phraseology . Nor is he equal to ...
... style . But Wyatt , although sufficiently distinguished from the common versifiers of his age , is confessedly inferior to Surrey in harmony of numbers , perspicuity of expression , and facility of phraseology . Nor is he equal to ...
Pagina 67
... style now antiquated , it is in some respects to this day the best argument extant on the subject of which it treats . Sidney's fame as an author now rests upon these two works . Neither of them seems to have been much esteemed by ...
... style now antiquated , it is in some respects to this day the best argument extant on the subject of which it treats . Sidney's fame as an author now rests upon these two works . Neither of them seems to have been much esteemed by ...
Pagina 70
... style , and the pioneer of the great English school of histor- ical writers . It is clear and spirited , acute without being taken up in trivialities , and is pervaded with the sweet spirit of philosophic culture . Raleigh's Letter to ...
... style , and the pioneer of the great English school of histor- ical writers . It is clear and spirited , acute without being taken up in trivialities , and is pervaded with the sweet spirit of philosophic culture . Raleigh's Letter to ...
Pagina 71
... style present a perfect contrast to those of Spenser . While the latter is full of mysterious and stately splendors , suited to dazzle the imagination , the former walks in open day- light , and is busied with the common and vulgar ...
... style present a perfect contrast to those of Spenser . While the latter is full of mysterious and stately splendors , suited to dazzle the imagination , the former walks in open day- light , and is busied with the common and vulgar ...
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Pagina 273 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Pagina 234 - Scriblerus was to have ridiculed all the false tastes in learning, under the character of a man of capacity enough ; that had dipped into every art and science, but injudiciously in each.
Pagina 209 - An apology for the true Christian divinity as the same is held forth and preached by the people called in scorn Quakers...
Pagina 428 - Life! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather ; 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear ; — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time ; Say not Good Night, — but in some brighter clime Bid me Good Morning.
Pagina 130 - But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters' pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Pagina 130 - With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light: There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear, As may with sweetness through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes.
Pagina 78 - My ancestors are turned to clay, And many of my mates are gone ; My youngers daily drop away, And can I think to 'scape alone ? No, no, I know that I must die, And yet my life amend not I.
Pagina 319 - Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book, (as such books generally are,) and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry.
Pagina 98 - CXLVI. Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth, Fool'd by those rebel powers that thee array, Why dost thou pine within, and suffer dearth, Painting thy outward walls so costly gay ? Why so large cost, having so short a lease, Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend ? Shall worms, inheritors of this excess, Eat up thy charge ? Is this thy body's end ? Then, soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss, And let that pine to aggravate thy store ; Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross ; Within be fed,...
Pagina 62 - There is one that passeth all the other, and is the most diligent prelate and preacher in all England. And will ye know who it is? I will tell you: It is the devil. He is the most diligent preacher of all other ; he is never out of his diocese...