Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies, Հատորներ 10-12Charles Knight & Company, 1846 |
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... picture , and was the very Bayes of his own farce . " Even in his rhymed plays , however , the fluent and vigorous harmony of Dryden's verse is sometimes dis- played with great effect , and , in the absence of all true dramatic spirit ...
... picture , and was the very Bayes of his own farce . " Even in his rhymed plays , however , the fluent and vigorous harmony of Dryden's verse is sometimes dis- played with great effect , and , in the absence of all true dramatic spirit ...
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... pictures or ideas depend- ing on the will . Discerning , by which term he designates the logical activity of the intellect , consists in comparing and compounding certain simple ideas , or in conceiving them apart from certain relations ...
... pictures or ideas depend- ing on the will . Discerning , by which term he designates the logical activity of the intellect , consists in comparing and compounding certain simple ideas , or in conceiving them apart from certain relations ...
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... picture of him which Swift has given in his History of the Four Last Years of Queen Anne ; ' nor perhaps , taken with the proper al- lowance , does it convey a less correct notion of the man . A The collection commonly called the Somers ...
... picture of him which Swift has given in his History of the Four Last Years of Queen Anne ; ' nor perhaps , taken with the proper al- lowance , does it convey a less correct notion of the man . A The collection commonly called the Somers ...
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... picture of his domestic character , and affords a curious insight into the minute regularity of his daily habits . He landed on the banks of the Delaware in October , and forthwith summoned an assembly of the freemen of the province ...
... picture of his domestic character , and affords a curious insight into the minute regularity of his daily habits . He landed on the banks of the Delaware in October , and forthwith summoned an assembly of the freemen of the province ...
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... picture of the man as of any other individual of that age of celebrated wits . He was , undoubtedly , accounted one of the prin- cipal figures of his time ; and even now there is scarcely any other name of that day with which the world ...
... picture of the man as of any other individual of that age of celebrated wits . He was , undoubtedly , accounted one of the prin- cipal figures of his time ; and even now there is scarcely any other name of that day with which the world ...
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Էջ 18 - To help me through this long disease, my life, To second, Arbuthnot ! thy art and care, And teach the being you preserved, to bear.
Էջ 136 - A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal, the next day after her death, to one Mrs. Bargrave, at Canterbury, the 8th of September, 1705, which apparition recommends the perusal of Drelincourt's book of ' Consolations against the fears of Death.
Էջ 121 - No more — no more — Oh! never more on me The freshness of the heart can fall like dew, Which out of all the lovely things we see Extracts emotions beautiful and new, Hived in our bosoms like the bag o' the bee: Think'st thou the honey with those objects grew?
Էջ 14 - Bestia's from the throne. Born to no pride, inheriting no strife, Nor marrying discord in a noble wife...
Էջ 41 - Like rose-buds, stuck i'the lily-skin about. Each little pimple had a tear in it, To wail the fault its rising did commit ; Which, rebel-like, with its own lord at strife, Thus made an insurrection 'gainst his life. Or were these gems sent to adorn his skin, The cabinet of a richer soul within ? No comet need foretel his change drew on, Whose corpse might seem a constellation.
Էջ 23 - And St. John's self (great Dryden's friends before) With open arms received one poet more. Happy my studies, when by these approved! Happier their author, when by these beloved!
Էջ 125 - Lord, with what care hast thou begirt us round ! Parents first season us ; then schoolmasters Deliver us to laws ; they send us bound To rules of reason, holy messengers, Pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, Afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes, Fine nets and stratagems to catch us in, Bibles laid open, millions of surprises ; Blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, The sound of Glory ringing in our ears : Without, our shame ; within, our consciences ; Angels and grace, eternal hopes...
Էջ 17 - When I had done with my priests, I took to reading by myself, for which I had a very great eagerness and enthusiasm, especially for poetry: and in a few years I had dipped into a great number of the English, French, Italian, Latin, and Greek poets. This I did...
Էջ 145 - Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah ; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
Էջ 26 - A KEY TO THE LOCK: OR A TREATISE, Proving beyond all contradiction the dangerous tendency of a late poem, intitled, The Rape of the Lock, to government and religion.