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... learned contemporaries , but who was the master of a true colloquial style , I shall speak later . That this awkward form of writing should have lasted long , need not be wondered at . In the first place , there was no great reading ...
... learned contemporaries , but who was the master of a true colloquial style , I shall speak later . That this awkward form of writing should have lasted long , need not be wondered at . In the first place , there was no great reading ...
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... learned to associate with the couplet , and elsewhere in his writings we may find instances of greater mechanical skill . In this very poem , it may be worth while to mention , are these lines , which were the despair of the later poets ...
... learned to associate with the couplet , and elsewhere in his writings we may find instances of greater mechanical skill . In this very poem , it may be worth while to mention , are these lines , which were the despair of the later poets ...
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... learned than at any other time ; but of that middle race of students who read for pleasure or accomplishment , and who buy the numerous products of modern typogra- phy , the number was then comparatively small . ” And it was small ...
... learned than at any other time ; but of that middle race of students who read for pleasure or accomplishment , and who buy the numerous products of modern typogra- phy , the number was then comparatively small . ” And it was small ...
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... learned alone , while Puri- tanism grew narrower . We may see its course illustrated by what we know of Milton's life . He was brought up amid all the riches of literature ; he studied foreign lan- guages and foreign literatures . His ...
... learned alone , while Puri- tanism grew narrower . We may see its course illustrated by what we know of Milton's life . He was brought up amid all the riches of literature ; he studied foreign lan- guages and foreign literatures . His ...
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... learned gladly resorted to them , where they seldom failed to meet with agreeable conversation . And the book- sellers themselves were knowing and conversible men , with whom , for the sake of bookish knowledge , the greatest Wits were ...
... learned gladly resorted to them , where they seldom failed to meet with agreeable conversation . And the book- sellers themselves were knowing and conversible men , with whom , for the sake of bookish knowledge , the greatest Wits were ...
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Page 137 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Page 52 - He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Page 249 - A brighter wash; to curl their waving hairs, Assist their blushes, and inspire their airs; Nay oft, in dreams, invention we bestow, To change a flounce, or add a furbelow.
Page 53 - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ;* A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 106 - tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Page 245 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Page 389 - In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse, I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation, that there was no restraining. Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry.
Page 52 - With public zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will, "Where crowds can wink and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own ! Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge.
Page 53 - Blest madman! who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy. Railing and praising were his usual themes; And both, to show his judgment, in extremes; So over violent, or over civil, That every man with him was god or devil.
Page 23 - That hath a mint of phrases in his brain : One, whom the music of his own vain tongue Doth ravish, like enchanting harmony...