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... , education , and life , written by herself , wherein she says very high things of the exquisite beauty of her person and the rare endowments of her mind . with him , ill - natured - upon the literary MARGARET DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE . 3.
... , education , and life , written by herself , wherein she says very high things of the exquisite beauty of her person and the rare endowments of her mind . with him , ill - natured - upon the literary MARGARET DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE . 3.
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... he 21st of May , 1656 , and performed a kind of nondescript enternments , as they were called , which were dramatic in every thing bt the names and form ; and some of them were called operas . 8 LIVES OF THE BRITISH POETS .
... he 21st of May , 1656 , and performed a kind of nondescript enternments , as they were called , which were dramatic in every thing bt the names and form ; and some of them were called operas . 8 LIVES OF THE BRITISH POETS .
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... thing worthy of notice before the elegies of Milton , it was perhaps Alabaster's Roxana . + Of the exercises which the rules of the University required , some were published by him in his maturer years . They had been un- doubtedly ...
... thing worthy of notice before the elegies of Milton , it was perhaps Alabaster's Roxana . + Of the exercises which the rules of the University required , some were published by him in his maturer years . They had been un- doubtedly ...
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... thing but his religion ; and Milton , in return , addressed him in a Latin poem , which must have raised a high opinion of English elegance and literature . His purpose was now to have visited Sicily and Greece ; but hear- ing of the ...
... thing but his religion ; and Milton , in return , addressed him in a Latin poem , which must have raised a high opinion of English elegance and literature . His purpose was now to have visited Sicily and Greece ; but hear- ing of the ...
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... thing else which he undertook , he laboured with great diligence , there is no reason for doubting . One part of his method deserves general imitation : he was careful to in- struct his scholars in religion . Every Sunday was spent upon ...
... thing else which he undertook , he laboured with great diligence , there is no reason for doubting . One part of his method deserves general imitation : he was careful to in- struct his scholars in religion . Every Sunday was spent upon ...
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Page 75 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Page 21 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Page 134 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 100 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And, though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
Page 185 - Blest above; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky!
Page 81 - I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all this); and by degrees with the tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers, so that I think I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch.
Page 29 - Englishmen being far northerly, do not open our mouths in the cold air wide enough to grace a southern tongue; but are observed by all other nations to speak exceeding close and inward; so that to smatter Latin with an English mouth, is as ill a hearing as law French.
Page 195 - I am as free as Nature first made man, \ Ere the base laws of servitude began, [• When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Page 19 - Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance, on the man who hastens home because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boardingschool 3.
Page 90 - Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic, for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness.