Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth CenturyRaymond Macdonald Alden Houghton Mifflin, 1911 - 724 páginas |
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... hearts against those who have oppressed her . And may God Almighty put it into the hearts of all the friends of truth to lift up a standard against pride and Antichrist , that the posterity of the sons of error may be rooted out from ...
... hearts against those who have oppressed her . And may God Almighty put it into the hearts of all the friends of truth to lift up a standard against pride and Antichrist , that the posterity of the sons of error may be rooted out from ...
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... heart and one mind , and that the king was the soul of the nation . What if they are what we foolishly call slaves to the absolute will of their prince ? That slavery to them is mere liberty . They entertain no notion of that foolish ...
... heart and one mind , and that the king was the soul of the nation . What if they are what we foolishly call slaves to the absolute will of their prince ? That slavery to them is mere liberty . They entertain no notion of that foolish ...
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... heart . When the buriers came up to him they soon found he was neither a person infected and desperate , as I have observed above , or a person distempered in mind , but one oppressed with a dreadful weight of grief indeed , having his ...
... heart . When the buriers came up to him they soon found he was neither a person infected and desperate , as I have observed above , or a person distempered in mind , but one oppressed with a dreadful weight of grief indeed , having his ...
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... heart is for our corporation of poets , from whom I am preparing a petition to your High- ness , to be subscribed with the names of one hundred and thirty - six of the first rate , but whose immortal productions are never likely to ...
... heart is for our corporation of poets , from whom I am preparing a petition to your High- ness , to be subscribed with the names of one hundred and thirty - six of the first rate , but whose immortal productions are never likely to ...
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... heart , that what I am going to say is literally true this minute I am writ- ing ; what revolutions may happen before it shall be ready for your perusal , I can by no means warrant ; however , I beg you to accept it as a specimen of our ...
... heart , that what I am going to say is literally true this minute I am writ- ing ; what revolutions may happen before it shall be ready for your perusal , I can by no means warrant ; however , I beg you to accept it as a specimen of our ...
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Página 588 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Página 636 - Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind: but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Página 545 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Página 46 - Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night ; nor for the arrow that flieth by day ; nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness ; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noon-day.
Página 546 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden.
Página 362 - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow...
Página 370 - Shakespeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions: they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world will...
Página 46 - I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
Página 193 - 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 any thing I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in Paradise, to wear out the impressions of their last agonies, and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place.
Página 406 - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.