The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and Bibliographical Summary of the World's Most Eminent Authors, Including the Choicest Selections and Masterpieces from Their Writings ...Fifth avenue library society, 1899 |
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... mind . Who by resolves and vows engaged does stand For days that yet belong to Fate , Does , like an unthrift , mortgage his estate Before it falls into his hand . The bondman of the cloister so All that he does receive does always owe ...
... mind . Who by resolves and vows engaged does stand For days that yet belong to Fate , Does , like an unthrift , mortgage his estate Before it falls into his hand . The bondman of the cloister so All that he does receive does always owe ...
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... mind and fortune , and lives in the conversation of two or three agreeable friends , with little commerce in the world besides , who is esteemed well enough by his few neighbors that know him , and is truly irreproachable by anybody and ...
... mind and fortune , and lives in the conversation of two or three agreeable friends , with little commerce in the world besides , who is esteemed well enough by his few neighbors that know him , and is truly irreproachable by anybody and ...
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... but I lost the power to exercise them . I could return a rational answer even to a difficult ques- tion ; but a question was necessary , or I never spoke at all . This state of mind was accompanied , as 18 WILLIAM COWPER.
... but I lost the power to exercise them . I could return a rational answer even to a difficult ques- tion ; but a question was necessary , or I never spoke at all . This state of mind was accompanied , as 18 WILLIAM COWPER.
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... mind was accompanied , as I suppose it to be in most cases of the kind , with misapprehension of things and persons , that made me a very intractable patient . I believed that everybody hated me , and that Mrs. Unwin hated me most of ...
... mind was accompanied , as I suppose it to be in most cases of the kind , with misapprehension of things and persons , that made me a very intractable patient . I believed that everybody hated me , and that Mrs. Unwin hated me most of ...
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... mind , and querulous in temper . Cowper failed too . He had had another attack of insanity , during which he again attempted suicide . He partially recovered ; but strange fancies haunted him . He imagined , when he awoke in the morning ...
... mind , and querulous in temper . Cowper failed too . He had had another attack of insanity , during which he again attempted suicide . He partially recovered ; but strange fancies haunted him . He imagined , when he awoke in the morning ...
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Page 31 - Shortening his journey between morn and noon, And hurrying him, impatient of his stay, Down to the rosy west ; but kindly still Compensating his loss with added hours Of social converse and instructive ease, And...
Page 225 - And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee...
Page 20 - Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head...
Page 24 - Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store: Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light...
Page 226 - Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you ; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind, and in the same judgment.
Page 26 - He loved the world that hated him : the tear That dropp'd upon his Bible was sincere ; Assail'd 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 29 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Page 40 - Where spices breathe, and brighter seasons smile, There sits quiescent on the floods that show Her beauteous form reflected clear below, While airs impregnated with incense play Around her, fanning light her streamers gay ; So thou, with sails how swift ! hast reached the shore, " Where tempests never beat nor billows roar,"* And thy loved consort on the dangerous tide Of life long since has anchored by thy side.
Page 49 - We are living, we are dwelling, In a grand and awful time, In an age on ages telling, To be living is sublime.
Page 34 - BETWEEN Nose and Eyes a strange contest arose, The spectacles set them unhappily wrong ; The point in dispute was, as all the world knows, To which the said spectacles ought to belong.