Lectures and Addresses in Aid of Popular Education; Including a Lecture on the Poetry of Pope |
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... perhaps rashly , to impose upon myself , has a much more simple , and , I am willing to hope , less personal aim . It is briefly this . It has seemed to me for a very long time , I should say from about the period of my own early youth ...
... perhaps rashly , to impose upon myself , has a much more simple , and , I am willing to hope , less personal aim . It is briefly this . It has seemed to me for a very long time , I should say from about the period of my own early youth ...
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... perhaps , my chief induce- ment to undertake the office which I am now fulfilling , yet I consider it will not be out of place for the object I have in view , especially before an audience of a nation which much delights in , and is ...
... perhaps , my chief induce- ment to undertake the office which I am now fulfilling , yet I consider it will not be out of place for the object I have in view , especially before an audience of a nation which much delights in , and is ...
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... how inferior to Gray or Campbell , who have followed him . The Ode , perhaps , of every species of poetical composition , was the most alien to the genius of Pope ; its character is rapt , vehement , ON THE POETRY OF POPE . 15.
... how inferior to Gray or Campbell , who have followed him . The Ode , perhaps , of every species of poetical composition , was the most alien to the genius of Pope ; its character is rapt , vehement , ON THE POETRY OF POPE . 15.
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... perhaps the most important and highly - wrought of his poems , the " Essay on Man . " They appear to me calculated to leave an appropriate impression of that orderly and graceful muse , whose attractions I have , feebly I know and ...
... perhaps the most important and highly - wrought of his poems , the " Essay on Man . " They appear to me calculated to leave an appropriate impression of that orderly and graceful muse , whose attractions I have , feebly I know and ...
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... perhaps to excel . These are some of my external recollections of Boston ; but there are some fonder still , of the most refined and animated social intercourse - of hospi- talities which it seemed impossible to exhaust - of friendships ...
... perhaps to excel . These are some of my external recollections of Boston ; but there are some fonder still , of the most refined and animated social intercourse - of hospi- talities which it seemed impossible to exhaust - of friendships ...
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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.