Lives of Sacred Poets, Volumen 2J.W. Parker, 1838 - 363 páginas |
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... seen Pope and Butler embalming Quarles and Wither for perpetual disgrace . But as the dramatist has risen from the scorn of Dryden , so Quarles and his companions have shaken off the missiles of their satirists . In the present volume ...
... seen Pope and Butler embalming Quarles and Wither for perpetual disgrace . But as the dramatist has risen from the scorn of Dryden , so Quarles and his companions have shaken off the missiles of their satirists . In the present volume ...
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... seen from the sonnets he wrote on the occasion . Through the interference of the assembly of Presbyterian divines , who forgot his former services in their displeasure at what they considered an invasion of ecclesiastical privileges ...
... seen from the sonnets he wrote on the occasion . Through the interference of the assembly of Presbyterian divines , who forgot his former services in their displeasure at what they considered an invasion of ecclesiastical privileges ...
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... . " I remember , " observes Dr. Newton , " to have heard from a gentleman who had seen his widow in Cheshire , that she had hair of this colour ( golden ) . ” bidding me take it home with me and read it JOHN MILTON . 43.
... . " I remember , " observes Dr. Newton , " to have heard from a gentleman who had seen his widow in Cheshire , that she had hair of this colour ( golden ) . ” bidding me take it home with me and read it JOHN MILTON . 43.
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... seen it commenced in blind- ness , pursued under many and various difficulties , and completed in solitude and in poverty . The enthusiasm which distinguishes every true poet , assumes in the Chris- tian bard that higher character of ...
... seen it commenced in blind- ness , pursued under many and various difficulties , and completed in solitude and in poverty . The enthusiasm which distinguishes every true poet , assumes in the Chris- tian bard that higher character of ...
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... seen the empurpled pavement that " like a sea of jasper shone ; " and the gates of pearl , and the battlements of crystal ; we had heard the " preamble sweet " from ten thousand lyres breaking into jubilee , and the River of Bliss ...
... seen the empurpled pavement that " like a sea of jasper shone ; " and the gates of pearl , and the battlements of crystal ; we had heard the " preamble sweet " from ten thousand lyres breaking into jubilee , and the River of Bliss ...
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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...