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... observation , " was the remark of Bishop Hall . Cowley , we are informed by Spratt , gave proofs of poetical power in early childhood ; Pope , we know , lisped in numbers , and began an epic when only twelve years old ; Schiller in his ...
... observation , " was the remark of Bishop Hall . Cowley , we are informed by Spratt , gave proofs of poetical power in early childhood ; Pope , we know , lisped in numbers , and began an epic when only twelve years old ; Schiller in his ...
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... observation , insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compassed at mine own peril and cost , I refuse not to sustain this expecta- tion from as many as are not loath to hazard so much ...
... observation , insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compassed at mine own peril and cost , I refuse not to sustain this expecta- tion from as many as are not loath to hazard so much ...
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... observed . Fletcher's vein of pic- turesque fancy recommended him to the heart of Milton , and Warton expresses a natural feeling of surprise that he omitted to associate him with Jonson's " learned sock ; " and the " wood - notes wild ...
... observed . Fletcher's vein of pic- turesque fancy recommended him to the heart of Milton , and Warton expresses a natural feeling of surprise that he omitted to associate him with Jonson's " learned sock ; " and the " wood - notes wild ...
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... observation of Hayley , " there is no poem of an epic form where the sublimest moral is so forcibly and abundantly united to poetical delight ; here he resembles the Apollo of Ovid , softening his glory in speaking to his son ; and ...
... observation of Hayley , " there is no poem of an epic form where the sublimest moral is so forcibly and abundantly united to poetical delight ; here he resembles the Apollo of Ovid , softening his glory in speaking to his son ; and ...
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... observed , should be received with caution . He was blind , and oppressed by many infirmities , and by his habitual study of the Scriptures , was always full " of the interior of religion , " even while neglecting its outward ordinances ...
... observed , should be received with caution . He was blind , and oppressed by many infirmities , and by his habitual study of the Scriptures , was always full " of the interior of religion , " even while neglecting its outward ordinances ...
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Page 234 - The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree ; And seem by Thy sweet bounty made For those who follow Thee.
Page 133 - Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green ; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between.
Page 132 - GIVE me the wings of faith, to rise Within the vail, and see The saints above — how great their joys, How bright their glories be ! 2 Once they were mourning here below, And wet their couch with tears ; They wrestled hard, as we do now, With sins, and doubts, and fears.
Page 108 - Direct, control, suggest this day All I design, or do, or say, That all my powers, with all their might, In Thy sole glory may unite ! Praise God, from whom all blessings flow!
Page 22 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model...
Page 20 - I was confirmed in this opinion that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.
Page 240 - E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream Thy flowing wounds supply, Redeeming love has been my theme, And shall be till I die.
Page 234 - There, if thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh, with what peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her God...
Page 250 - He loved the world that hated him : the tear That dropped upon his Bible was sincere : Assailed by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was, a blameless life ; And he that forged, and he that threw the dart, Had each a brother's interest in his heart.
Page 310 - No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half...