LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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Page 31
... reason be inquired , it will be found partly in the choice of the subject , and partly in the performance of the work . Sacred History has been always read with submissive reverence , and an im- agination over - awed and controlled . We ...
... reason be inquired , it will be found partly in the choice of the subject , and partly in the performance of the work . Sacred History has been always read with submissive reverence , and an im- agination over - awed and controlled . We ...
Page 35
... reason for Rymer's censure . He says of the Supreme Being , Hà fotto i piedi e fato e la natura Ministri humili , e'l moto , e ch'il misura . The second line has in it more of pedantry than perhaps can be found in any other stanza of ...
... reason for Rymer's censure . He says of the Supreme Being , Hà fotto i piedi e fato e la natura Ministri humili , e'l moto , e ch'il misura . The second line has in it more of pedantry than perhaps can be found in any other stanza of ...
Page 37
... reason is always reason ; they have an in- trinsick and unalterable value , and constitute that intellectual gold which defies destruction : but gold may be so concealed in baser matter , that only a chymist can recover it ; sense may ...
... reason is always reason ; they have an in- trinsick and unalterable value , and constitute that intellectual gold which defies destruction : but gold may be so concealed in baser matter , that only a chymist can recover it ; sense may ...
Page 48
... reason to think well , since his scholar considered him as worthy of an epistolary Elegy . He was then sent to St. Paul's School , under the care of Mr. Gill ; and re- moved , in the beginning of his sixteenth year , to Christ's College ...
... reason to think well , since his scholar considered him as worthy of an epistolary Elegy . He was then sent to St. Paul's School , under the care of Mr. Gill ; and re- moved , in the beginning of his sixteenth year , to Christ's College ...
Page 54
... reason for doubting . One part of his method deserves general imitation . He was careful to instruct his scholars in religion . Every Sunday was spent upon theology : of which he dictated a short system , gathered from the writers that ...
... reason for doubting . One part of his method deserves general imitation . He was careful to instruct his scholars in religion . Every Sunday was spent upon theology : of which he dictated a short system , gathered from the writers that ...
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