Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Том 51836 |
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... gave to the public the second part of his Instauratio Magna , his immortal Novum Örganum , the greatest of all his works , and the central pile of that edifice of philosophy on which the world has bestow- ed his name . The Novum Organum ...
... gave to the public the second part of his Instauratio Magna , his immortal Novum Örganum , the greatest of all his works , and the central pile of that edifice of philosophy on which the world has bestow- ed his name . The Novum Organum ...
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... gave up close study for a season , and betook himself to the easier and pleasanter task of inditing amatory verses . For a time this employment satisfied him , and his poetry , though often grossly indelicate in language and ideas ...
... gave up close study for a season , and betook himself to the easier and pleasanter task of inditing amatory verses . For a time this employment satisfied him , and his poetry , though often grossly indelicate in language and ideas ...
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... gave the name of Ideas , Odes , Elegies , & c . These productions exhibit various degrees of merit . In some parts they are in every respect worthy of the golden age of English literature ; they are in but few destitute of some grace ...
... gave the name of Ideas , Odes , Elegies , & c . These productions exhibit various degrees of merit . In some parts they are in every respect worthy of the golden age of English literature ; they are in but few destitute of some grace ...
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... gave the title of Satiromastic , or the Untrussing of the Humorous Poet , ' to his parody on the Poetaster , ' and there are portions of this production which would not have disgraced the most famous of wits . The rude taste of the ...
... gave the title of Satiromastic , or the Untrussing of the Humorous Poet , ' to his parody on the Poetaster , ' and there are portions of this production which would not have disgraced the most famous of wits . The rude taste of the ...
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... gave unpardonable offence to the royal Solomon . The poets who had engaged in this piece were of course rendered offensive at court , and were no longer acceptable there . The favour of royalty in those days had greater influence than ...
... gave unpardonable offence to the royal Solomon . The poets who had engaged in this piece were of course rendered offensive at court , and were no longer acceptable there . The favour of royalty in those days had greater influence than ...
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Страница 300 - You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing.
Страница 318 - ... nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth : and being sown up and down may chance to spring up armed men.
Страница 318 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors...
Страница 318 - ... who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Страница 294 - The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Страница 321 - They are powerful, not only to delight but to elevate and purify. Nor do we envy the man who can study either the life or the writings of the great poet and patriot without aspiring to emulate, not indeed the sublime works with which his genius has enriched our literature, but the zeal with which he...
Страница 336 - There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors.
Страница 270 - By all the heav'ns thou hast in him, Fair sister of the seraphim! By all of him we have in thee, Leave nothing of myself in me: Let me so read thy life that I Unto all life of mine may die.
Страница 337 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Страница 242 - He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where nature only should reign ; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy, when he should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softnesses of love.