Lives of Sacred Poets, Volume 2J.W. Parker, 1838 - 363 pages |
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... mind that more than ordinary favour and respect " which he experienced above any of his equals , " at the hands of those courteous and learned men , " the fellows of his college ; to oblige whom he wrote in 1628 some verses upon the ...
... mind that more than ordinary favour and respect " which he experienced above any of his equals , " at the hands of those courteous and learned men , " the fellows of his college ; to oblige whom he wrote in 1628 some verses upon the ...
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... mind ; con- ducting him from the busy tumult of life into the gardens of Attic philosophy , and by the pleasant banks of Aonian streams ; and he particularly attributes to his advice the acquisition of the French , Italian , and Hebrew ...
... mind ; con- ducting him from the busy tumult of life into the gardens of Attic philosophy , and by the pleasant banks of Aonian streams ; and he particularly attributes to his advice the acquisition of the French , Italian , and Hebrew ...
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... retired to Arcetri , where Milton probably visited him . From Florence he went by Sienna to Rome , where he resided two months , feasting his eyes and his mind , as one of his biographers expresses it , with the fine 12 JOHN MILTON .
... retired to Arcetri , where Milton probably visited him . From Florence he went by Sienna to Rome , where he resided two months , feasting his eyes and his mind , as one of his biographers expresses it , with the fine 12 JOHN MILTON .
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... mind . This year of very dreadful commotions and I weene will ensue murderous times of conflicting fight . " This remark is dated from Canterbury , and Mr. Todd conjectures it to have been written by the poet while on his road from ...
... mind . This year of very dreadful commotions and I weene will ensue murderous times of conflicting fight . " This remark is dated from Canterbury , and Mr. Todd conjectures it to have been written by the poet while on his road from ...
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... mind other arguments were to be expected ; but from his " ab- stracted sublimities , " and the purity of the " divine volume of Plato , " he brought little against his opponents . His weapons were drawn from a different armoury . It ...
... mind other arguments were to be expected ; but from his " ab- stracted sublimities , " and the purity of the " divine volume of Plato , " he brought little against his opponents . His weapons were drawn from a different armoury . It ...
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Page 234 - The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree ; And seem by Thy sweet bounty made For those who follow Thee.
Page 133 - Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green ; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between.
Page 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.
Page 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!
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 310 - No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half...