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Pagina 25
... passages as " Guard us , Lord , as the apple of an eye , " we cannot fully enter into the meaning of the inspired writer , unless we have learned from this science how , and with what a multiplicity of precautions , the apple of the eye ...
... passages as " Guard us , Lord , as the apple of an eye , " we cannot fully enter into the meaning of the inspired writer , unless we have learned from this science how , and with what a multiplicity of precautions , the apple of the eye ...
Pagina 26
... passage of the river , it was equally accessible to those who lived north of Thames , and those who lived south . This distinction is clearly recognized in the Saxon Chronicle , and it probably gave rise to the division of all the ...
... passage of the river , it was equally accessible to those who lived north of Thames , and those who lived south . This distinction is clearly recognized in the Saxon Chronicle , and it probably gave rise to the division of all the ...
Pagina 29
... passage he had said , speaking of the consequences of the Norman invasion , “ You might see churches rise in every village , and monasteries in the towns and cities , built in a style unknown before . " This style was of course the ...
... passage he had said , speaking of the consequences of the Norman invasion , “ You might see churches rise in every village , and monasteries in the towns and cities , built in a style unknown before . " This style was of course the ...
Pagina 43
... passages of which are given by Warton , there shines out from under the terrible barbarism of the language , a beautiful pathos , and a tender purity of devotion ; so that it would be a good work if some competent person were so far to ...
... passages of which are given by Warton , there shines out from under the terrible barbarism of the language , a beautiful pathos , and a tender purity of devotion ; so that it would be a good work if some competent person were so far to ...
Pagina 45
... passage , often quoted , in the prologue to Chaucer's Testament of Love . But few such pieces are of suffi- cient merit to bear printing . In French prose scarcely anything can be mentioned besides the despatches , treaties , & c ...
... passage , often quoted , in the prologue to Chaucer's Testament of Love . But few such pieces are of suffi- cient merit to bear printing . In French prose scarcely anything can be mentioned besides the despatches , treaties , & c ...
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Pagina 338 - Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy soul's immensity ; Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind. That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind ; — Mighty prophet ! Seer blest ! On whom those truths do rest. Which we are toiling all our lives to find...
Pagina 320 - Enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Pagina 304 - Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Pagina 255 - Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom...
Pagina 331 - Fear no more the frown o' the great; Thou art past the tyrant's stroke; Care no more to clothe and eat; To thee the reed is as the oak: The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust.
Pagina 164 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Pagina 338 - Thou little Child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height, Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife? Full soon thy Soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life!
Pagina 308 - Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst: For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace: A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.
Pagina 282 - Arthure, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private morall vertues, as Aristotle hath devised...
Pagina 315 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.