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... poet in town . There is not , perhaps , any harder task than to tame the natural wildness of wit , and to civilize the fancy . The generality of our old English poets abound in forced conceits , and affected phrases ; and even those who ...
... poet in town . There is not , perhaps , any harder task than to tame the natural wildness of wit , and to civilize the fancy . The generality of our old English poets abound in forced conceits , and affected phrases ; and even those who ...
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... Poets ; in the close of which he insinuates a design he then had of going into holy orders , to which he was strongly importuned by his father . His remark- able seriousness and modesty , which might have been urged as powerful reasons ...
... Poets ; in the close of which he insinuates a design he then had of going into holy orders , to which he was strongly importuned by his father . His remark- able seriousness and modesty , which might have been urged as powerful reasons ...
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... poetic fires ! Slow comes the verse that real woe inspires : Grief unaffected suits but ill with art , Or flowing numbers with a bleeding heart . Can I forget the dismal night , that gave My soul's best part for ever to the grave ! How ...
... poetic fires ! Slow comes the verse that real woe inspires : Grief unaffected suits but ill with art , Or flowing numbers with a bleeding heart . Can I forget the dismal night , that gave My soul's best part for ever to the grave ! How ...
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... poets tell us a Lydian king was formerly possessed of ; and that she could convert whatever she pleased into that precious metal .み After a little dizziness , and confused hurry of thought , which a man often meets with in a dream ...
... poets tell us a Lydian king was formerly possessed of ; and that she could convert whatever she pleased into that precious metal .み After a little dizziness , and confused hurry of thought , which a man often meets with in a dream ...
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... poets of different nations , and raised by two magicians of different sexes . Armida ( as we are told in the ar- gument ) was an Amazonian enchantress , and poor Signior Cassani ( as we learn from the persons repre- sented ) a Christian ...
... poets of different nations , and raised by two magicians of different sexes . Armida ( as we are told in the ar- gument ) was an Amazonian enchantress , and poor Signior Cassani ( as we learn from the persons repre- sented ) a Christian ...
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Page 36 - Shine not in vain ; nor think, though men were none, That heaven would want spectators, God want praise. Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night : how often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator ? oft in bands While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk...
Page 159 - ... in separating carefully, one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.
Page 270 - As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it, he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees anybody else nodding, either wakes them himself, or sends his servants to them.
Page 338 - I see multitudes of people passing over it", said I, "and a black cloud hanging on each end of it ". As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon...
Page 349 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 196 - They closed full fast on every side, No slackness there was found; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground.
Page 270 - Sometimes he will be lengthening out a verse in the singing psalms, half a minute after the rest of the congregation have done with it ; sometimes when he is pleased with the matter of his devotion, he pronounces
Page 256 - At his first settling with me, I made him a present of all the good sermons which have been printed in English, and only begged of him that every Sunday he would pronounce one of them in the pulpit. Accordingly, he has digested them into such a series, that they follow one another naturally, and make a continued system of practical divinity.
Page 391 - If I did despise the cause of my manservant, Or of my maidservant, when they contended with me : What then shall I do when God riseth up ? And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him ? Did not he that made me in the womb make him ? And did not one fashion us in the womb...
Page 339 - those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants; and among many other feathered...