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... blood , but virtue , kin ; Not only heir unto thy throne , but mind : " Tis he shall perfect all thy cares , And with a finer thread weave out thy loom . So one did bring the chosen people from Their slavery and fears ; Led them through ...
... blood , but virtue , kin ; Not only heir unto thy throne , but mind : " Tis he shall perfect all thy cares , And with a finer thread weave out thy loom . So one did bring the chosen people from Their slavery and fears ; Led them through ...
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... amused Cromwell , who had some turn that way . # Thou , as once the healing serpent rose , Wast lifted up , not for thyself , but us . morphosis of Ajax's blood into the hyacinth * furnishes a 8 STANZAS ON OLIVER CROMWELL .
... amused Cromwell , who had some turn that way . # Thou , as once the healing serpent rose , Wast lifted up , not for thyself , but us . morphosis of Ajax's blood into the hyacinth * furnishes a 8 STANZAS ON OLIVER CROMWELL .
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John Dryden, Walter Scott George Saintsbury. morphosis of Ajax's blood into the hyacinth * furnishes a simile for the supposed revival of letters through the blood spilled by Cromwell ; his sword is preferred to the flaming brand of the ...
John Dryden, Walter Scott George Saintsbury. morphosis of Ajax's blood into the hyacinth * furnishes a simile for the supposed revival of letters through the blood spilled by Cromwell ; his sword is preferred to the flaming brand of the ...
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... blood , by breathing of the vein . * * This passage , which seems to imply nothing further than that Cromwell conducted the war so as to push it to a con- clusion , was afterwards invidiously interpreted by Dryden's enemies , as ...
... blood , by breathing of the vein . * * This passage , which seems to imply nothing further than that Cromwell conducted the war so as to push it to a con- clusion , was afterwards invidiously interpreted by Dryden's enemies , as ...
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... * The small wits of the time made themselves very merry with this couplet ; because stillness , being a mere absence of sound , could not , it was said , be personified , as an active 10 Though in his life he blood and ruin breathed ,
... * The small wits of the time made themselves very merry with this couplet ; because stillness , being a mere absence of sound , could not , it was said , be personified , as an active 10 Though in his life he blood and ruin breathed ,
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Page 76 - But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon ; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side ; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
Page 47 - And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty...
Page 259 - 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 47 - And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.
Page 239 - A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else, why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?
Page 263 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, '°° Great Villiers lies...
Page 286 - Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice!
Page 306 - Jotham of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies, who but only tried The worse a while, then chose the better side, Nor chose alone, but turned the balance too, So much the weight of one brave man can do.
Page 148 - With roomy decks, her guns of mighty strength, Whose low-laid mouths each mounting billow laves : Deep in her draught, and warlike in her length, She seems a sea-wasp flying on the waves.
Page 84 - Holland fleet, who, tir'il and done, Stretch'd on their decks, like weary oxen lie : Faint sweats all down their mighty members run, (Vast bulks, which little souls but ill supply.) In dreams they fearful precipices tread, • Or, shipwreck'd, labour to some distant shore ; Or in dark churches walk among the dead ; They wake with horror, and dare sleep no more.