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... interests of Protestantism . He seems everywhere to have made the most favorable impres- sion by both his character and his abilities . During the years between 1578 and 1585 he was chiefly at court and in Parliament , and to this ...
... interests of Protestantism . He seems everywhere to have made the most favorable impres- sion by both his character and his abilities . During the years between 1578 and 1585 he was chiefly at court and in Parliament , and to this ...
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... interest binds them , to love peace in our late mad and miserable civil wars , all other trades , even to the meanest , set forth whole troops , and raised up some great commanders , who became famous and mighty for the mischiefs they ...
... interest binds them , to love peace in our late mad and miserable civil wars , all other trades , even to the meanest , set forth whole troops , and raised up some great commanders , who became famous and mighty for the mischiefs they ...
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... interest in this world , as one who is hastening to the object of all his wishes , and conceives hope from his decays and infirmities . These are my ordinary companions . HINTS TOWARDS AN ESSAY ON CONVERSATION A TREATISE ON GOOD 94 SIR ...
... interest in this world , as one who is hastening to the object of all his wishes , and conceives hope from his decays and infirmities . These are my ordinary companions . HINTS TOWARDS AN ESSAY ON CONVERSATION A TREATISE ON GOOD 94 SIR ...
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... dependance . Her fortune , at that time , was in all not above fifteen hundred pounds , the interest of which 131 ON THE DEATH OF ESTHER JOHNSON [STELLA] BY JONATHAN SWIFT ON THE DEATH OF ESTHER JOHNSON [STELLA] BY JONATHAN SWIFT.
... dependance . Her fortune , at that time , was in all not above fifteen hundred pounds , the interest of which 131 ON THE DEATH OF ESTHER JOHNSON [STELLA] BY JONATHAN SWIFT ON THE DEATH OF ESTHER JOHNSON [STELLA] BY JONATHAN SWIFT.
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... interest of which was but a scanty maintenance , in so dear a country , for one of her spirit . Upon this consideration , and indeed very much for my own satisfaction , who had few friends or acquaintance in Ireland , I prevailed with ...
... interest of which was but a scanty maintenance , in so dear a country , for one of her spirit . Upon this consideration , and indeed very much for my own satisfaction , who had few friends or acquaintance in Ireland , I prevailed with ...
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Page 315 - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate...
Page 364 - Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Page 69 - As I looked upon him, he applied it to his lips, and began to play upon it The sound of it was exceeding sweet, and wrought into a variety of tunes that were inexpressibly melodious, and altogether different from anything I had ever heard.
Page 51 - Sufflaminandus erat," as Augustus said of Haterius. His wit was in his own power; would the rule of it had been so, too! Many times he fell into those things, could not escape laughter, as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him, "Ca:sar, thou dost me wrong.
Page 18 - ... he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well enchanting skill of music; and with a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
Page 6 - Poesy, therefore, is an art of imitation, for so Aristotle termeth it in his word Mimesis, that is to say, a representing, counterfeiting, or figuring forth: to speak metaphorically, a speaking picture : with this end, to teach and delight; of this have been three several kinds.
Page 203 - What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetick * ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Page 70 - Bridge, said I, standing in the Midst of the Tide. The Bridge thou seest, said he, is human Life, consider it attentively. Upon a more leisurely Survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire Arches, with several broken Arches, which added to those that were entire, made up the Number about an hundred.
Page 8 - ... the highest end of the mistress-knowledge, by the Greeks called arckitektonike, 360 which stands, as I think, in the knowledge of a man's self, in the ethic and politic consideration, with the end of well-doing, and not of well-knowing only...
Page 23 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work, trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?