Lectures and Addresses in Aid of Popular Education; Including a Lecture on the Poetry of Pope |
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... believe that , in this respect , and it is one not to be considered slightingly , — he would be found to occupy the second place , next , of course , to the universal Shak- speare himself . Allow me to cite a few instances . When there ...
... believe that , in this respect , and it is one not to be considered slightingly , — he would be found to occupy the second place , next , of course , to the universal Shak- speare himself . Allow me to cite a few instances . When there ...
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... believe very few such have been written . Mr. Macaulay says on this point , " From the time when the ' Pastorals ' appeared , heroic versification became matter of rule and compass , and , before long , all artists were on a level ...
... believe very few such have been written . Mr. Macaulay says on this point , " From the time when the ' Pastorals ' appeared , heroic versification became matter of rule and compass , and , before long , all artists were on a level ...
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... believe with no more than perfect truth , the noblest version of poetry which the world has ever seen . The main objection alleged against it is , that being a professed translation of Homer , it is not Homeric , -that it is full of ...
... believe with no more than perfect truth , the noblest version of poetry which the world has ever seen . The main objection alleged against it is , that being a professed translation of Homer , it is not Homeric , -that it is full of ...
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... believe that they must have been nearly altogether com- pleted before he was thirty . Those which I may further have to quote from ( in doing which I shall hardly think it necessary to observe so much separate order between the ...
... believe that they must have been nearly altogether com- pleted before he was thirty . Those which I may further have to quote from ( in doing which I shall hardly think it necessary to observe so much separate order between the ...
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... believe took specially amiss the kind of notice he had bestowed upon the Rape of the Lock . He speaks of him under the name of Atticus ; you will remark the consummate skill with which he first does justice to his genius , and then ...
... believe took specially amiss the kind of notice he had bestowed upon the Rape of the Lock . He speaks of him under the name of Atticus ; you will remark the consummate skill with which he first does justice to his genius , and then ...
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Page 22 - Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne; View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer...
Page 14 - Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest; The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Page 28 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent: Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Page 14 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
Page 26 - Seen him, uneumber'd with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe. Would he oblige me? let me only find, He does not think me what he thinks mankind.
Page 67 - ... the Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing : which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
Page 29 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood! The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line...
Page 30 - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men, not afraid of God, afraid of me; Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch'd and shamed by ridicule alone.
Page 22 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; 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 13 - True wit is nature to advantage dressed, — What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.