Lives of Sacred Poets, Volumen 2J.W. Parker, 1838 - 363 páginas |
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... never - sleeping watchfulness of his " great Task - master's eye . " The beautiful elegy addressed to his father displays the ardour of his filial affection , and the extent and variety of his attainments ; nor is it less interesting ...
... never - sleeping watchfulness of his " great Task - master's eye . " The beautiful elegy addressed to his father displays the ardour of his filial affection , and the extent and variety of his attainments ; nor is it less interesting ...
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... never completed the perusal of his works until obliged to do so in order to make collections for his dic- tionary . " He spoke also , " says Beattie , " very peevishly of the Masque of Comus , and when I urged that there was a great ...
... never completed the perusal of his works until obliged to do so in order to make collections for his dic- tionary . " He spoke also , " says Beattie , " very peevishly of the Masque of Comus , and when I urged that there was a great ...
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... never to begin a conversation on religion in these parts , but if interrogated concerning my faith , whatever might be the consequence , to dissemble 66 nothing . If any one attacked me I defended in 14 JOHN MILTON .
... never to begin a conversation on religion in these parts , but if interrogated concerning my faith , whatever might be the consequence , to dissemble 66 nothing . If any one attacked me I defended in 14 JOHN MILTON .
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... never expect to find in Milton , -the servility of flattery . He commenced his Second Defence in a tone of tri- umphant exultation ; he no longer regarded himself as the advocate of a single nation , but as the champion of Christendom ...
... never expect to find in Milton , -the servility of flattery . He commenced his Second Defence in a tone of tri- umphant exultation ; he no longer regarded himself as the advocate of a single nation , but as the champion of Christendom ...
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... never saw anything equal to this , but the conclu- sion of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World . ” The History of England was followed , in 1671 , by Samson Agonistes and Paradise Regained , which Mr. Dunster supposes to have been ...
... never saw anything equal to this , but the conclu- sion of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World . ” The History of England was followed , in 1671 , by Samson Agonistes and Paradise Regained , which Mr. Dunster supposes to have been ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 234 - The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree ; And seem by Thy sweet bounty made For those who follow Thee.
Página 133 - Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green ; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between.
Página 132 - GIVE me the wings of faith, to rise Within the vail, and see The saints above — how great their joys, How bright their glories be ! 2 Once they were mourning here below, And wet their couch with tears ; They wrestled hard, as we do now, With sins, and doubts, and fears.
Página 108 - Direct, control, suggest this day All I design, or do, or say, That all my powers, with all their might, In Thy sole glory may unite ! Praise God, from whom all blessings flow!
Página 22 - 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...
Página 20 - 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.
Página 240 - E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream Thy flowing wounds supply, Redeeming love has been my theme, And shall be till I die.
Página 234 - There, if thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh, with what peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her God...
Página 250 - He loved the world that hated him : the tear That dropped upon his Bible was sincere : Assailed by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was, a blameless life ; And he that forged, and he that threw the dart, Had each a brother's interest in his heart.
Página 310 - No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half...