Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Том 51836 |
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... woolsack , when they met on the 30th of January . Scarcely , how- ever , had the commons proceeded to business , when complaints of cusers . grievances poured in upon them from all quarters 232 [ FIFTH LITERARY SERIES .
... woolsack , when they met on the 30th of January . Scarcely , how- ever , had the commons proceeded to business , when complaints of cusers . grievances poured in upon them from all quarters 232 [ FIFTH LITERARY SERIES .
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... proceeded rapidly with his translation , having published the whole of the remaining books in the next five years . This work is worthy of special notice as the first attempt ever made to present Homer in the garb of an English dress ...
... proceeded rapidly with his translation , having published the whole of the remaining books in the next five years . This work is worthy of special notice as the first attempt ever made to present Homer in the garb of an English dress ...
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... proceeded to the East , taking an extensive tour through Greece , Egypt , and the Holy Land . Returning to Europe , he resided some time in Rome , and afterwards in Venice , at both which places he appears to have employed himself ...
... proceeded to the East , taking an extensive tour through Greece , Egypt , and the Holy Land . Returning to Europe , he resided some time in Rome , and afterwards in Venice , at both which places he appears to have employed himself ...
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... proceeded to France . He remained , however , but a short period in that country , and on his return to England was graciously received by the marquess of Newcastle , who had then the command of a large force in the north , which he had ...
... proceeded to France . He remained , however , but a short period in that country , and on his return to England was graciously received by the marquess of Newcastle , who had then the command of a large force in the north , which he had ...
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... proceeded from the Hague to accompany the elector - palatine on a journey to the court of Sweden . On his return with the prince , he travelled through Flanders into France , where having perfected his knowledge of the language , and ...
... proceeded from the Hague to accompany the elector - palatine on a journey to the court of Sweden . On his return with the prince , he travelled through Flanders into France , where having perfected his knowledge of the language , and ...
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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.