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... original of the lady in Comus was Alice , the eleventh daughter of the Earl of Bridgewater , and who became the wife of the Earl of Carbery , the patron and friend of Jeremy Taylort . Her picture is preserved at Golden Grove , and is ...
... original of the lady in Comus was Alice , the eleventh daughter of the Earl of Bridgewater , and who became the wife of the Earl of Carbery , the patron and friend of Jeremy Taylort . Her picture is preserved at Golden Grove , and is ...
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... original seat of the family of his friend Dio- dati , and Venice , where he lingered a month , probably engaged in the arrangement of the collection of books and music which he shipped from that port for England . From Venice he passed ...
... original seat of the family of his friend Dio- dati , and Venice , where he lingered a month , probably engaged in the arrangement of the collection of books and music which he shipped from that port for England . From Venice he passed ...
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... original style of the more sublime poetry . Cowper thought it equal to any of Virgil's Bucolics . On his arrival in London he hired a lodging in St. Bride's Churchyard , Fleet - street , at the house of a tailor named Russell , and took ...
... original style of the more sublime poetry . Cowper thought it equal to any of Virgil's Bucolics . On his arrival in London he hired a lodging in St. Bride's Churchyard , Fleet - street , at the house of a tailor named Russell , and took ...
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... original destination of Milton and his companion for holy orders , imparts a force and beauty to the pastoral allusions . In 1647 , his wife's relations having returned to their own homes , Milton removed to a smaller house in High ...
... original destination of Milton and his companion for holy orders , imparts a force and beauty to the pastoral allusions . In 1647 , his wife's relations having returned to their own homes , Milton removed to a smaller house in High ...
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... original stone placed over the tomb of Milton was removed a few years after his burial , and no memorial distinguished his resting place , until Mr. Whitbread erected , in the middle aisle of the church , a marble bust , the work of ...
... original stone placed over the tomb of Milton was removed a few years after his burial , and no memorial distinguished his resting place , until Mr. Whitbread erected , in the middle aisle of the church , a marble bust , the work of ...
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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...