Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the close of the 17th century, with sketches biogr. and literary, &c. By G. Burnett, Volume 3George Burnett 1807 |
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Page 158
... appear in them , with- ' out comparison distinctly . For , if in affection they exceed all , and in abilities are as Saul , taller than their brethren by head and shoulders , then is it manifest in them , that eftsoon men of the most ...
... appear in them , with- ' out comparison distinctly . For , if in affection they exceed all , and in abilities are as Saul , taller than their brethren by head and shoulders , then is it manifest in them , that eftsoon men of the most ...
Page 180
... appear over all the kinds of lyric poesy , to be incomparable . These abilities , wheresoever they be found , are the inspired gift of God , rarely bestowed , but yet to some ( though most abuse ) in every nation : and are of power , be ...
... appear over all the kinds of lyric poesy , to be incomparable . These abilities , wheresoever they be found , are the inspired gift of God , rarely bestowed , but yet to some ( though most abuse ) in every nation : and are of power , be ...
Page 181
... appear now rugged and difficult , though they be indeed easy and pleasant , they would then appear to all men both easy and pleasant , though they were rugged and difficult in- deed . And what a benefit would this be to our youth and ...
... appear now rugged and difficult , though they be indeed easy and pleasant , they would then appear to all men both easy and pleasant , though they were rugged and difficult in- deed . And what a benefit would this be to our youth and ...
Page 185
... appear the right I have to meddle in these matters ; as before the necessity and constraint appeared . The passage in which he vindicates his own chastity , is singularly beautiful , and presents a very pleasing picture of his early ...
... appear the right I have to meddle in these matters ; as before the necessity and constraint appeared . The passage in which he vindicates his own chastity , is singularly beautiful , and presents a very pleasing picture of his early ...
Page 187
... is not wont to be false , that what emboldened them to this task , might , with such diligence as they used , embolden me ; and that what judgment , wit , or elegance , was my share , would herein best appear , and best MILTON . 187.
... is not wont to be false , that what emboldened them to this task , might , with such diligence as they used , embolden me ; and that what judgment , wit , or elegance , was my share , would herein best appear , and best MILTON . 187.
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Page 189 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy...
Page 193 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Page 51 - This done, the multitude so united in one person is called a 'commonwealth,' in Latin civitas. This is the generation of that great 'Leviathan,' or rather, to speak more reverently, of that 'mortal God,' to which we owe, under the 'immortal God,
Page 185 - I was destined of a child, and in mine own resolutions, till coming to some maturity of years and perceiving what tyranny had invaded the Church, that he who would take Orders must subscribe slave, and take an oath withal, which unless he took with a conscience that would retch he must either straight perjure, or split his faith, I thought it better to prefer a blameless silence before the sacred office of speaking bought, and begun with servitude and forswearing.
Page 43 - CIVITAS, which is but an artificial man; though of greater stature and strength than the natural, for whose protection and defence it was intended; and in which the sovereignty is an artificial soul, as giving life and motion to the whole body...
Page 51 - This is more than consent, or concord; it is a real unity of them all, in one and the same person, made by covenant of every man with every man...
Page 183 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...
Page 179 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; 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 179 - ... the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model; or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be...
Page 417 - ... an objection: sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a...