The Life of Joseph Addison Alexander, Volume 1Scribner, 1870 - Clergy |
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... attention at the hands of the antiquary and the scholar . Its libraries are important and costly . Its literary and theological name has long been honoured on both sides of the Atlantic . It can show an imposing catalogue of Alumni ...
... attention at the hands of the antiquary and the scholar . Its libraries are important and costly . Its literary and theological name has long been honoured on both sides of the Atlantic . It can show an imposing catalogue of Alumni ...
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... attention of this important body , was a proposal from a gentleman of Vir- vinia to exhibit " a method of working a boat of twenty tons burden by the force of machines , with only one man , with- out sails , against the tide , so that ...
... attention of this important body , was a proposal from a gentleman of Vir- vinia to exhibit " a method of working a boat of twenty tons burden by the force of machines , with only one man , with- out sails , against the tide , so that ...
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... attention to the subject of verse and rhythm , and even put forth early essays in this style . Such we find to be the case . His earliest effort in metre is a piece composed in 1816 , when he was about seven years old . It is an imagina ...
... attention to the subject of verse and rhythm , and even put forth early essays in this style . Such we find to be the case . His earliest effort in metre is a piece composed in 1816 , when he was about seven years old . It is an imagina ...
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... attention . During that summer , at the request of their father , I undertook to give some lessons in Greek to Addison and William Alexander , and for that pur- pose they came every afternoon to my room for an hour . The former was then ...
... attention . During that summer , at the request of their father , I undertook to give some lessons in Greek to Addison and William Alexander , and for that pur- pose they came every afternoon to my room for an hour . The former was then ...
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... attention to the striking resemblance of some of these to some of Swift's humourous pieces . The point is well taken . The likeness in some respects is apparent ; yet in others the spontaneous effusions of which I have been speaking are ...
... attention to the striking resemblance of some of these to some of Swift's humourous pieces . The point is well taken . The likeness in some respects is apparent ; yet in others the spontaneous effusions of which I have been speaking are ...
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Page 89 - ... his eyes. Now, Lycidas, the shepherds weep no more; Henceforth thou art the Genius of the shore, In thy large recompense, and shalt be good To all that wander in that perilous flood.
Page 12 - My heart is smitten, and withered like grass ; so that I forget to eat my bread. By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
Page 136 - Thy life a long dead calm of fix'd repose; No pulse that riots, and no blood that glows. Still as the sea, ere winds were taught to blow, Or moving spirit bade the waters flow; Soft as the slumbers of a saint forgiv'n, And mild as op'ning gleams of promis'd heav'n.
Page 311 - What man is he that feareth the Lord? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.
Page 311 - The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses.
Page 223 - To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right, (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew...
Page 311 - Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness
Page 311 - HEAR me when I call, O God of my righteousness : thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
Page 8 - While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead.