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... THING . " " Because the spirit of man cannot demean itself lively in this body , without some recreating intermission of labour and serious things , - * * * * civilize , adorn and make discreet the mind , by the learned and affable ...
... THING . " " Because the spirit of man cannot demean itself lively in this body , without some recreating intermission of labour and serious things , - * * * * civilize , adorn and make discreet the mind , by the learned and affable ...
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... things may be unavoidable : but , as experience becomes extended , and as society advances , these deficiencies are perceived , and appropriate remedies are sought for and applied . The people of modern Europe , as well as of the United ...
... things may be unavoidable : but , as experience becomes extended , and as society advances , these deficiencies are perceived , and appropriate remedies are sought for and applied . The people of modern Europe , as well as of the United ...
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... thing had trod the earth , Or fish been form'd in watery depths to dwell , Or wing to cleave the air , when they assumed Their crystallizing forms , but nought of life entomb'd . IX . Time was , when on the sea the timid bark , Scarce ...
... thing had trod the earth , Or fish been form'd in watery depths to dwell , Or wing to cleave the air , when they assumed Their crystallizing forms , but nought of life entomb'd . IX . Time was , when on the sea the timid bark , Scarce ...
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... things were so situated as they are at present . ' " " That our forefathers should have paid so decided an atten- tion to ... thing of importance to communicate , would have thought it proper to waste it in the neglected language of his ...
... things were so situated as they are at present . ' " " That our forefathers should have paid so decided an atten- tion to ... thing of importance to communicate , would have thought it proper to waste it in the neglected language of his ...
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... thing but its language and illustrations . His " Essay on Criticism " is traceable to Horace and Boileau ; and ... things . ' The reverse , for in all cases a reverse is Was Pope a Poet of the first order ? 39.
... thing but its language and illustrations . His " Essay on Criticism " is traceable to Horace and Boileau ; and ... things . ' The reverse , for in all cases a reverse is Was Pope a Poet of the first order ? 39.
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Page 254 - And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying, in the Hebrew tongue, '• Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me ? It is hard for thee to kick against the goads." And I said,
Page 140 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Page 397 - And give the world the lie. Say to the court, it glows And shines like rotten wood; Say to the church it shows What's good, and doth no good: If church and court reply, Then give them both the lie. Tell potentates, they live Acting by others...
Page 255 - Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come: that Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should show light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
Page 290 - Whether that epic form, whereof the two poems of Homer and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the Book of Job a brief model...
Page 283 - Yet he, who reigns within himself, and rules Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king ; Which every wise and virtuous man attains...
Page 244 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them ? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil...
Page 398 - Who, in their greatest cost, Seek nothing but commending: And if they make reply, Then give them all the lie. Tell zeal it wants devotion; Tell love it is but lust; Tell time it is but motion; Tell flesh it is but dust: And wish them not reply, For thou must give the lie.
Page 139 - Midst the chief relics of almighty Rome; The trees which grew along the broken arches Waved dark in the blue midnight, and the stars Shone through the rents of ruin...
Page 254 - I send thee, to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.