The Works of Richard Hurd, Lord Bishop of Worcester: Moral and political dialogues

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T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1811 - Theology, Doctrinal
 

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Page 158 - Gideon's miracle* was shown ; " For every tree and every herb around " With pearly dew was crown'd, " And upon all the quicken'd ground " The fruitful seed of heaven did brooding lie, " And nothing but the Muse's fleece was dry.
Page 146 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Page 68 - Hic subit et perfert. Aut virtus nomen inane est, Aut decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir. Coram rege suo de paupertate tacentes Plus poscente ferent ; distat sumasne pudenter An rapias.
Page 156 - A wondrous hieroglyphick robe she wore, In which all colours and all figures were, That nature or that fancy can create, That art can never imitate; And with loose pride it wanton'd in the air. In such a dress, in such a well-cloth'd dream, She us'd, of old, near fair Ismenus' stream, Pindar, her Theban favourite, to meet ; A crown was on her head, and wings were on her feet.
Page 185 - ... if he were taken once, then what shift, with biting, with clawing, with roaring, tossing, and tumbling, he would work to wind himself from them, and when he was loose, to shake his ears twice or thrice, with the blood and the slaver about his phisnomy, was a matter of goodly relief.
Page 159 - The Rachel for which, twice seven years and more, Thou didst with faith and labour serve, And didst (if faith and labour can) deserve, Though she contracted was to thee, Giv'n to another, who had store Of fairer and of richer wives before, And not a Leah left thy recompense to be.
Page 250 - Countries) are far under the fame : and if the late queen would have believed her men of war, as she did her scribes, we had in her time beaten that great empire in pieces, and made their kings kings of figs apd oranges, as in old times.
Page 146 - II, that he had not left a better man behind him in England, which was probably the truth.
Page 155 - IN a deep vision's intellectual scene, * Beneath a bower for sorrow made, Th' uncomfortable shade Of the black yew's unlucky green, Mixt with the mourning willow's careful grey, Where reverend Cham cuts out his famous way, The melancholy Cowley lay : And lo ! a Muse appear'd to...
Page 156 - I resolved t' exalt thy anointed name, Among the spiritual lords of peaceful fame ; Thou changeling, thou, bewitch'd with noise and show, Would'st into courts and cities from me go ; Would' st see the world abroad, and have a share In all the follies and the tumults there. Thou would'st, forsooth, be something in a state, And business thou would'st find, and would'st create : Business ! the frivolous pretence...

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