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... sense as his natural speech , so long as his thoughts are busied with those objects on which her attention and affections are uninterruptedly concentred . Thus no poem more startlingly real , more tender , more awe - inspiring , exists ...
... sense as his natural speech , so long as his thoughts are busied with those objects on which her attention and affections are uninterruptedly concentred . Thus no poem more startlingly real , more tender , more awe - inspiring , exists ...
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... sense it may be called abstract poetry , since throughout a large portion of it the reader is removed from the world of concrete existences , and placed in an imaginary realm , peopled by beings who own no laws but the conventional de ...
... sense it may be called abstract poetry , since throughout a large portion of it the reader is removed from the world of concrete existences , and placed in an imaginary realm , peopled by beings who own no laws but the conventional de ...
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... sense can be attached to the famous passage in the prologue to the Clerk's Tale ? - " I wil you telle a tale , which that I Lerned at Padowe of a worthy clerk , As proved by his wordes and his werk ; He is now dead , and nayled in his ...
... sense can be attached to the famous passage in the prologue to the Clerk's Tale ? - " I wil you telle a tale , which that I Lerned at Padowe of a worthy clerk , As proved by his wordes and his werk ; He is now dead , and nayled in his ...
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... sense preferable to wealth . The Reformers seized on this weak point then noticeable in many of the clergy , and made out of it , to use a modern phrase , abundant con- troversial capital . Human learning , they said , —Luther himself ...
... sense preferable to wealth . The Reformers seized on this weak point then noticeable in many of the clergy , and made out of it , to use a modern phrase , abundant con- troversial capital . Human learning , they said , —Luther himself ...
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... sense of insecurity induced among all classes by Henry's tyranny in his later years , and the social confusion which prevailed in the following reign , in- terrupted the peaceful flow of learned studies . The universities appear to have ...
... sense of insecurity induced among all classes by Henry's tyranny in his later years , and the social confusion which prevailed in the following reign , in- terrupted the peaceful flow of learned studies . The universities appear to have ...
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Page 338 - Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy soul's immensity ; Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind. That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind ; — Mighty prophet ! Seer blest ! On whom those truths do rest. Which we are toiling all our lives to find...
Page 320 - Enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Page 304 - Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 255 - Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom...
Page 331 - Fear no more the frown o' the great; Thou art past the tyrant's stroke; Care no more to clothe and eat; To thee the reed is as the oak: The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust.
Page 164 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Page 338 - Thou little Child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height, Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife? Full soon thy Soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life!
Page 308 - Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst: For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace: A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.
Page 282 - Arthure, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private morall vertues, as Aristotle hath devised...
Page 315 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.