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... hope , by seeing him fortunate , and partaking his prosperity . We know at least , from Sprat's account , that he always acknowledged her care , and justly paid the dues of filial gratitude . In the window of his mother's apartment lay ...
... hope , by seeing him fortunate , and partaking his prosperity . We know at least , from Sprat's account , that he always acknowledged her care , and justly paid the dues of filial gratitude . In the window of his mother's apartment lay ...
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... hope , or the gloominess of despair ; and dresses his imagina- ry Chloris or Phyllis sometimes in flowers fading as her beauty , and sometimes in gems lasting as her virtues . At Paris , as secretary to Lord Jermyn , he was engaged in ...
... hope , or the gloominess of despair ; and dresses his imagina- ry Chloris or Phyllis sometimes in flowers fading as her beauty , and sometimes in gems lasting as her virtues . At Paris , as secretary to Lord Jermyn , he was engaged in ...
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... hope , that great numbers were inevitably disappointed ; and Cowley found his reward very tediously delayed . He had been promised by both Charles the First and Second , the mastership of the Savoy ; " but he lost it , " says Wood ...
... hope , that great numbers were inevitably disappointed ; and Cowley found his reward very tediously delayed . He had been promised by both Charles the First and Second , the mastership of the Savoy ; " but he lost it , " says Wood ...
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... has been , and stranger than all the rest , that you have broke your word with me , and failed to come , even though you told Mr Bois that you would . This is what they call monstri simile . I do hope to recover my late hurt COWLEY . 15.
... has been , and stranger than all the rest , that you have broke your word with me , and failed to come , even though you told Mr Bois that you would . This is what they call monstri simile . I do hope to recover my late hurt COWLEY . 15.
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Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy. simile . I do hope to recover my late hurt so far within five or six days ( though it be uncertain yet whether I shall ever recover it ) as to walk about again . And then , methinks , you and I and the dean ...
Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy. simile . I do hope to recover my late hurt so far within five or six days ( though it be uncertain yet whether I shall ever recover it ) as to walk about again . And then , methinks , you and I and the dean ...
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Page 145 - We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night, Oft till the star that rose at evening bright Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel.
Page 18 - Wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike.
Page 35 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the center 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' other foot, obliquely run: Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.
Page 206 - At the moment in which he expired, he uttered, with an energy of voice, that expressed the most fervent devotion, two lines of his own version of Dies Ira; : My God, my father, and my friend, Do not forsake me in my end.
Page 144 - It is not to be considered as the effusion of real passion ; for passion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions. Passion plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy, nor calls upon Arethuse and Mincius, nor tells of rough satyrs and fauns with cloven heel.
Page 130 - Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked his reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with steady consciousness, and waiting, without impatience, the vicissitudes of opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation.
Page 404 - Harmony, This universal Frame began; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring Atoms lay, And could not heave her head The tuneful Voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.
Page 145 - Among the flocks and copses and flowers appear the heathen deities, Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and jEolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as a college easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another god what has become of Lycidas, and how neither god can. tell. He who thus grieves will excite...
Page 158 - He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others - the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful...
Page 94 - I had taken two degrees, as the manner is, signified many ways how much better it would content them that I would stay ; as by many letters full of kindness and loving respect, both before that time and long after, I was assured of their singular good affection towards me.