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... certainly a sincere wish for his relief from what may justly be considered as the severest of human evils . I belong to a fallible species , and am probably to be numbered with the most fallible of its indi- viduals : but I cannot ...
... certainly a sincere wish for his relief from what may justly be considered as the severest of human evils . I belong to a fallible species , and am probably to be numbered with the most fallible of its indi- viduals : but I cannot ...
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... certainly considerable , and entitles him to an honorable station among the asserters of historic truth . The admirers of Milton are under great obligations to him . reservoir ( if the allusion may be permitted ) , 10 LIFE OF MILTON .
... certainly considerable , and entitles him to an honorable station among the asserters of historic truth . The admirers of Milton are under great obligations to him . reservoir ( if the allusion may be permitted ) , 10 LIFE OF MILTON .
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... certainly occurs with this quantity . If this authority , from poetry neither epic elegiac nor lyric , can save Mil- ton in this instance , it will be well ; and one sin against prosody will be struck from his account . Salmasius , in ...
... certainly occurs with this quantity . If this authority , from poetry neither epic elegiac nor lyric , can save Mil- ton in this instance , it will be well ; and one sin against prosody will be struck from his account . Salmasius , in ...
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... certainly correct : in the first , indeed , it is beautifully poetic . When the poet asks whe- ther the object of his lamentation were ... that JUST MAID , who once before Forsook the hated earth , & c . 35 I subjoin the passage in ...
... certainly correct : in the first , indeed , it is beautifully poetic . When the poet asks whe- ther the object of his lamentation were ... that JUST MAID , who once before Forsook the hated earth , & c . 35 I subjoin the passage in ...
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... certainly wearied you of it . This , therefore , alone may be a sufficient reason for me to keep me as I am , lest , having thus tired you singly , I should . deal worse with a whole congregation and spoil all the patience of a parish ...
... certainly wearied you of it . This , therefore , alone may be a sufficient reason for me to keep me as I am , lest , having thus tired you singly , I should . deal worse with a whole congregation and spoil all the patience of a parish ...
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Page 386 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 296 - Old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...
Page 102 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...
Page 221 - Then to advise how war may, best upheld, Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all her equipage...
Page 39 - No war, or battle's sound Was heard the world around : The idle spear and shield were high uphung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng ; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by.
Page 184 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...
Page 154 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth ; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. All they shall speak, and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we ? art thou become like unto us...
Page 60 - Sleep; At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air...
Page 292 - The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content, though blind, had I no better guide.
Page 101 - ... 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...