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... better pleased the public taste . It cannot be too strongly impressed on beginners that one great secret of success lies in having " a good notion of style , " such as Burnet attributes to Charles the Second . Rousseau's rule for letter ...
... better pleased the public taste . It cannot be too strongly impressed on beginners that one great secret of success lies in having " a good notion of style , " such as Burnet attributes to Charles the Second . Rousseau's rule for letter ...
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... better acquainted with its quicksands , and rocks , and soundings than if I had stayed on the green shore and took tea and comfortable advice . I was never afraid of failure for I would sooner fail than not be amongst the greatest ...
... better acquainted with its quicksands , and rocks , and soundings than if I had stayed on the green shore and took tea and comfortable advice . I was never afraid of failure for I would sooner fail than not be amongst the greatest ...
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... better been described by one . If he has occasion to introduce any author , he very rarely mentions him by his proper name . In the treatise entitled Advice to an Author , he employs two or three successive pages in descanting upon ...
... better been described by one . If he has occasion to introduce any author , he very rarely mentions him by his proper name . In the treatise entitled Advice to an Author , he employs two or three successive pages in descanting upon ...
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... better than the Romans , liberty at least was one thing which they understood as well as we . In the latter they will import , that liberty was understood , at If this last was the least as well by them 66 Composition and Style .
... better than the Romans , liberty at least was one thing which they understood as well as we . In the latter they will import , that liberty was understood , at If this last was the least as well by them 66 Composition and Style .
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... Better thus : " Though our brother is upon the rack , our senses , as long as we ourselves are at ease , will never inform us of what he suffers . " This work in its full extent , being now afflicted with an asthma , and finding the ...
... Better thus : " Though our brother is upon the rack , our senses , as long as we ourselves are at ease , will never inform us of what he suffers . " This work in its full extent , being now afflicted with an asthma , and finding the ...
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Page 35 - To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind ; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
Page 144 - Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th
Page 132 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Page 46 - Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due: For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer: Who would not sing for Lycidas?
Page 238 - ... islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds, falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments.
Page 162 - Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.
Page 130 - Departed spirits of the mighty dead! Ye that at Marathon and Leuctra bled! Friends of the world! restore your swords to man, Fight in his sacred cause, and lead the van! Yet for Sarmatia's tears of blood atone, And make her arm puissant as your own! Oh! once again to Freedom's cause return The patriot TELL — the BRUCE OF BANNOCKBURN!
Page 310 - I WAS born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull.
Page 162 - Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a 1 Judges ix.
Page 140 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.