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The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical - Page 264
by Robert Anderson - 1795 - 1157 pages
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Belinda, Volume 2

Maria Edgeworth - 1821 - 352 pages
...free. With eloquence innate his tongue was arm'd, Though harsh the precept, yet the preachercharm'd; For, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upwards to the sky. He taught the Gospel rather than the law, And forc'd himself to drive, but lov'd...
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Original Memorials; Or, Brief Sketches of Real Characters

Charles Bradley - 1822 - 222 pages
...invested with all the veneration that was due to a messenger from God on an errand of eternal import. For letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky; He bore his great commission in his look, But sweetly temper-d awe, and soften-d all he spoke....
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Fables from Boccaccio and Chaucer

Giovanni Boccaccio, John Dryden - English poetry - 1822 - 314 pages
...free. With eloquence innate his tongue was arm'd, Though harsh theprecept,yetthe preacher charm'd. For, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky : And oft with holy hymns he charm'd their ears (A music more melodious than the spheres): For...
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The British poets, including translations, Volume 25

British poets - 1822 - 292 pages
...free. With eloquence innate his tongue was arni'd, Though harsh the precept, yet the preacher charm'd. For, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky : And oft with holy hymns he charm'd their ears, (A music more melodious than the spheres :) For...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 274 pages
...more inspired, more enraptured, more sublime, than the -poet; and that, in his ordinary conversation, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky. " Notwithstanding Young had said, in his ' Conjectures on original Composition,' that ' blank...
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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8

Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 404 pages
...more inspired, more enraptured, more sublime, than the poet; and that, in his ordinary conversation, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky. Notwithstanding Young had said, in his " Conjectures on original Composition," that " blank verse...
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Works, Volume 3

Maria Edgeworth - 1824 - 408 pages
...free. S With eloquence innate his tongue wu arm'd, Though harsh the precept, yet the preacher charm'd ! For, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upwards to the sky. He taught the Gospel rather than the law, And forc'd himself to drive, but lov'd...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the English poets (cont ...

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 pages
...more inspired, more enraptured, more sublime, than the poet ; and that, in his ordinary conversation, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky. Notwithstanding Young had said, in hia " Conjectures on original Composition," that "Wank verse...
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The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 pages
...character still more ins more enraptured, more sublime, than the poet; and-, in his ordinary conversation, Letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky. Notwithstanding Young had said, in his Conjecture original Composition, that " blank verse is...
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Tales and miscellaneous piecces, Volume 3

Maria [collections] Edgeworth - 1825 - 344 pages
...free. With eloquence innate his tongue was arm'd, Though harsh the precept, yet the preacher charm'd ; For, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upwards to the sky. He taught the Gospel rather than the law, And forc'd himself to drive, but lov'd...
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