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Էջ 14 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Էջ 23 - The character of the true philosopher is to hope all things not impossible, and to believe all things not unreasonable.
Էջ 39 - British throne, whom, with gratitude, we reckon amongst the most munificent of our royal benefactors ; and cherished by the continued attention and good offices of our honourable patrons,* this University can now boast of the number and variety of its institutions for the instruction of youth in all the branches of literature and science.
Էջ 10 - The angelic orders and inferior creatures mute, Irrational and brute. Nor do I name of men the common rout, That wandering loose about Grow up and perish, as the summer fly, Heads without name no more remembered...
Էջ 14 - ... itself of this means of giving truth a keener edge ? It may, indeed, be carried to excess, as Dante seems to have done in his descriptions of the physical torments of perdition. But Milton, while he has given an awful distinctness and force to those same torments, has not exaggerated them ; and why may not religion use this power, as any other proper means, to impress divine truth,? In this respect, thus far, the children of this world have been wiser than the children of light.
Էջ 40 - Learn from yon Orient shell to love thy foe, And store with pearls the hand that brings thee woe: Free like yon rock, from base, vindictive pride, Emblaze with gems the wrist that rends thy side; Mark where yon tree rewards the stony shower With fruit nectareous, or the balmy flower, All Nature cries aloud : shall man do less Than heal the smiter, and the railer bless...
Էջ 38 - In contemplating the felicitous state of society which is predicted in the Scriptures of truth, and the rapid approach of such a state, which the auspices of the present day clearly indicate, and desiring to add our feeble efforts to the various exertions of the Christian community for effecting so glorious an event, — we have associated together for the express purpose of founding an institution on the genuine principles of charity and benevolence, for the instruction of youth in all the branches...
Էջ 11 - They set as sets the morning star, which goes • Not down behind the darkened west, nor hides Obscured among the tempests of the sky, But melts away into the light of heaven.
Էջ 14 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense: Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar.
Էջ 18 - Did the time permit me to point them out, however, it would be little more than a repetition of what has been recently said better and more fully than I can do, by one of my colleagues.* I pass, therefore, to another important sign in the great zodiac of human knowledge. On that circle mathematics follows naturally after metaphysics, because it furnishes us with the noblest examples of abstract truth in the universe. But I fancy that I hear one and another whispering, " What possible connection can...