The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... seems to have been well informed of facts , though he may sometimes err in chronology , has delivered as indu- bitably certain : He found Dr. Andrews , Bishop of Winchester , • 6 6 and Dr. Neale , Bishop of Durham 14 . B.
... seems to have been well informed of facts , though he may sometimes err in chronology , has delivered as indu- bitably certain : He found Dr. Andrews , Bishop of Winchester , • 6 6 and Dr. Neale , Bishop of Durham 14 . B.
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... seems to fix the time , is supposed by Mr. Fenton to be the Ad- dress to the Queen , which he considers as congratu ... seem to carry their own dates , could have been the sudden effusion of fancy . In the verses on the Prince's escape ...
... seems to fix the time , is supposed by Mr. Fenton to be the Ad- dress to the Queen , which he considers as congratu ... seem to carry their own dates , could have been the sudden effusion of fancy . In the verses on the Prince's escape ...
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... seems much more likely that he should amuse himself with forming an imaginary scene , than that so important an incident , as a visit to America , should have been left floating in conjec- tural probability . From his twenty - eighth to ...
... seems much more likely that he should amuse himself with forming an imaginary scene , than that so important an incident , as a visit to America , should have been left floating in conjec- tural probability . From his twenty - eighth to ...
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... seems generally to be thought un- constitutional , particularly injured . He was not however a bigot to his party , nor adopted all their opinions . When the great question , whether Episcopacy ought to be abolished , was de- bated , he ...
... seems generally to be thought un- constitutional , particularly injured . He was not however a bigot to his party , nor adopted all their opinions . When the great question , whether Episcopacy ought to be abolished , was de- bated , he ...
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... seem to favour that , as there are now alleged against the prelacy or preferment of the Church . And , as for abuses , where you are now in the Remonstrance told what this and that poor man hath suffered by the Bishops , you may be ...
... seem to favour that , as there are now alleged against the prelacy or preferment of the Church . And , as for abuses , where you are now in the Remonstrance told what this and that poor man hath suffered by the Bishops , you may be ...
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Page 108 - ON A GIRDLE. THAT which her slender waist confined Shall now my joyful temples bind : No monarch but would give his crown, His arms might do what this has done.
Page 48 - Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man, admitted to implore the mercy of his Creator, and plead the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher state than poetry can confer.
Page 196 - The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made : Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home.
Page 48 - Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those parts of nature which attract, and the concealment of those which repel, the imagination ; but religion must be shown as it is; suppression and addition equally corrupt it ; and such as it is, it is known already.
Page 29 - But combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those, who have long practised perfidy, grow faithless to each other.
Page 137 - From hence he does that antique pile behold, Where royal heads receive the sacred gold: It gives them crowns, and does their ashes keep; There made like gods, like mortals there they sleep; Making the circle of their reign complete, Those suns of empire, where they rise, they set.
Page 133 - Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath received our yoke.
Page 36 - There needs no more to be said to extol the excellence and power of his wit and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults, that is, so to cover them that they were not taken notice of to his reproach, viz. a narrowness in his nature to the lowest degree, an abjectness and want of courage to support him in any virtuous undertaking, an insinuation and servile flattery to the height the vainest and most imperious nature could be contented...
Page 207 - The heedless lover does not know Whose eyes they are that wound him so ; But, confounded with thy art, Inquires her name that has his heart.
Page 135 - Beneath a shoal of silver fishes glides, And plays about the gilded barges' sides : The ladies angling in the crystal lake, Feast on the waters with the prey they take : At once victorious with their lines and eyes, They make the fishes and the men their prize.