Hypocrisy: A Satire, in Three Books. Book the FirstT. Smith, 1812 - 296 páginas |
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... turn , As fire but brightens what it cannot burn ; And truth , with fear and cautious care pursue , Fearless , and careless what may thence ensue . Those who reform the least , will most resent , Quick to revile , but tardy to repent ...
... turn , As fire but brightens what it cannot burn ; And truth , with fear and cautious care pursue , Fearless , and careless what may thence ensue . Those who reform the least , will most resent , Quick to revile , but tardy to repent ...
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... turn for relief to his criticisms upon Gray , and to his prayers and meditations . " But he makes up for this in ano ... turns with indignation ; the salt that will preserve the Lives of the Ports , is to be found in the comparison that ...
... turn for relief to his criticisms upon Gray , and to his prayers and meditations . " But he makes up for this in ano ... turns with indignation ; the salt that will preserve the Lives of the Ports , is to be found in the comparison that ...
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... Turn'd criminals , in shame their heads must hide . Ah with those mighty Dead ' tis hardly fair I grant , our mushroom Critics to compare ; For in that war where thousands fall , the best Alone of ages firmly stand the test . No wonder ...
... Turn'd criminals , in shame their heads must hide . Ah with those mighty Dead ' tis hardly fair I grant , our mushroom Critics to compare ; For in that war where thousands fall , the best Alone of ages firmly stand the test . No wonder ...
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... turn to such a page , and such a verse , you will find the passage you have made yourselves so merry withal , to be verbatim a quotation from Pindar ; if Pindar's Greek is not good enough for you , I am very sor ry for it . " But Avon's ...
... turn to such a page , and such a verse , you will find the passage you have made yourselves so merry withal , to be verbatim a quotation from Pindar ; if Pindar's Greek is not good enough for you , I am very sor ry for it . " But Avon's ...
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... turn on O'Quigley , who had just paid the forfeiture of his Life to the Laws . Dr. Parr , as some little palliation of O'Quigley's offence , observed that he was no impostor , but although deceived , yet died in the conviction , though ...
... turn on O'Quigley , who had just paid the forfeiture of his Life to the Laws . Dr. Parr , as some little palliation of O'Quigley's offence , observed that he was no impostor , but although deceived , yet died in the conviction , though ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 182 - They err, who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and wide, to overrun Large countries, and in field great battles win, Great cities by assault : what do these worthies, But rob and spoil, burn, slaughter, and enslave Peaceable nations, neighbouring or remote, Made captive, yet deserving freedom more Than those their conquerors, who leave behind Nothing but ruin wheresoe'er they rove, And all the flourishing...
Página 218 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Página 230 - In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself.
Página 182 - Peaceable nations, neighbouring or remote, Made captive, yet deserving freedom more Than those their conquerors, who leave behind Nothing but ruin wheresoe'er they rove, And all the flourishing works of peace destroy ; Then swell with pride, and must be titled gods, Great Benefactors of Mankind, Deliverers, Worshipped with temple, priest, and sacrifice?
Página 286 - ... warmest patriots have in their turn been invested with the lawful and unlawful authority of the crown, and though other reliefs or improvements have been held forth to the people, yet that no one man in office has ever promoted or encouraged a bill for shortening the duration of parliaments, but that (whoever was minister) the opposition to this measure, ever since the septennial act passed, has been constant and uniform on the part of government. You cannot but conclude, without ihe possibility...
Página 64 - Dropped manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels: for his thoughts were low: To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful; yet he...
Página 205 - Wherefore things ordained by them as necessary to salvation have neither strength nor authority, unless it may be declared that they be taken out of holy Scripture.
Página 224 - If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translation of the Bible ; the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation from Raleigh; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they might be expressed.
Página 175 - Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command, A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill, A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man.
Página 242 - I am now to examine Paradise Lost, a poem which, considered with respect to design, may claim the first place, and with respect to performance, the second, among the productions of the human mind.