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... perhaps too pure and elevated for the conditions of human existence : at least such was the character of its prevailing principles . The affected dog- mas , which are undeniably united with them , constituted the essential elements of ...
... perhaps too pure and elevated for the conditions of human existence : at least such was the character of its prevailing principles . The affected dog- mas , which are undeniably united with them , constituted the essential elements of ...
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... perhaps fired his zeal and awakened all the energies of his genius . In the earnest and affectionate tone of the exordium , the chilling apathy of his sect is forgotten , and the kindling feeling and congenial sympathies of the friend ...
... perhaps fired his zeal and awakened all the energies of his genius . In the earnest and affectionate tone of the exordium , the chilling apathy of his sect is forgotten , and the kindling feeling and congenial sympathies of the friend ...
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... perhaps too servile an imitation of his elegant predecessor has tended to fetter the energies of an untried genius . The second and sixth satires are ethical . The former is an admira- ble example of the mode of thinking among the ...
... perhaps too servile an imitation of his elegant predecessor has tended to fetter the energies of an untried genius . The second and sixth satires are ethical . The former is an admira- ble example of the mode of thinking among the ...
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... perhaps tended partially to create that obscurity which is so often alleged as a defect in his composition . Habituated , from the nature of his pursuits and the peculiarities of his sect , to the close reasoning and the trifling ...
... perhaps tended partially to create that obscurity which is so often alleged as a defect in his composition . Habituated , from the nature of his pursuits and the peculiarities of his sect , to the close reasoning and the trifling ...
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... perhaps more honour than is due ) is paid to the classic Jonson ; the loftiness of Beaumont , and the exquisite pathos of Fletcher , have always met with their admirers ; c 2 MASSINGER . 19 Massinger his Life and Religious Tenets :
... perhaps more honour than is due ) is paid to the classic Jonson ; the loftiness of Beaumont , and the exquisite pathos of Fletcher , have always met with their admirers ; c 2 MASSINGER . 19 Massinger his Life and Religious Tenets :
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Page 354 - Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate: " To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods...
Page 37 - The sky is changed! - and such a change! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
Page 37 - And this is in the night : — Most glorious night ! Thou wert not sent for slumber ! let me be A sharer in thy fierce and far delight, — A portion of the tempest and of thee ! How the lit lake shines, a phosphoric sea, And the big rain comes dancing to the earth ! And now again 'tis black, — and now, the glee Of the loud hills shakes with its mountain-mirth, As if they did rejoice o'er a young earthquake's birth.
Page 124 - Only the poet, disdaining to be tied to any such subjection, lifted up with the vigour of his own invention, doth grow in effect into another nature, in making things either better than Nature bringeth forth, or, quite anew - forms such as never were in Nature...
Page 357 - And still his name sounds stirring Unto the men of Rome, As the trumpet-blast that cries to them To charge the Volscian home ; And wives still pray to Juno For boys with hearts as bold As his who kept the bridge so well In the brave days of old.
Page 59 - Of Truth, of Grandeur, Beauty, Love, and Hope, And melancholy Fear subdued by Faith; Of blessed consolations in distress; Of moral strength, and intellectual Power; Of joy in widest commonalty spread...
Page 230 - Shame that skulks behind; Or pining Love shall waste their youth, Or Jealousy with rankling tooth That inly gnaws the secret heart, And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visaged comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high To bitter Scorn a sacrifice And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try And hard Unkindness...
Page 223 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain. Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat'ry depths; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason!
Page 306 - O mother Ida, many-fountain'd Ida, Dear mother Ida, harken ere I die. For now the noonday quiet holds the hill; The grasshopper is silent in the grass; The lizard, with his shadow on the stone, Rests like a shadow, and the winds are dead.
Page 354 - As thou sayest so let it be." And straight against that great array Forth went the dauntless Three. For Romans in Rome's quarrel Spared neither land nor gold, Nor son nor wife, nor limb nor life, In the brave days of old.