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... writings of Cicero , Seneca , Livy , Cæsar , and Valerius Maximus , elevated above his equals and contemporaries the genius of the young plebeian ; he perused with indefatigable diligence the manuscripts and marbles of an- tiquity ...
... writings of Cicero , Seneca , Livy , Cæsar , and Valerius Maximus , elevated above his equals and contemporaries the genius of the young plebeian ; he perused with indefatigable diligence the manuscripts and marbles of an- tiquity ...
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... writings breathe the most ardent spirit of patriotism and joy ; and all respect for the pope , all gratitude for the Colonna , was lost in the superior duties of a Roman citizen . The poet laureat of the Capitol maintains the act ...
... writings breathe the most ardent spirit of patriotism and joy ; and all respect for the pope , all gratitude for the Colonna , was lost in the superior duties of a Roman citizen . The poet laureat of the Capitol maintains the act ...
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... writing , many opinions ; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making . Under these fantastic terrors of sect and schism we wrong the earnest and zealous thirst after knowledge and understanding which God hath stirred up in ...
... writing , many opinions ; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making . Under these fantastic terrors of sect and schism we wrong the earnest and zealous thirst after knowledge and understanding which God hath stirred up in ...
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... writing and free speaking , there cannot be assigned a truer than your own mild , and free , and humane government ; it is the liberty , Lords and Commons , which your own valorous and happy counsels have purchased us ; liberty , which ...
... writing and free speaking , there cannot be assigned a truer than your own mild , and free , and humane government ; it is the liberty , Lords and Commons , which your own valorous and happy counsels have purchased us ; liberty , which ...
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... writings on Natural History which exhibit the same powers of the genuine naturalist that characterise the works of White , of Wilson , and of Audubon . He is occasionally ob- scure in the attempt to be grand or impressive , but no one ...
... writings on Natural History which exhibit the same powers of the genuine naturalist that characterise the works of White , of Wilson , and of Audubon . He is occasionally ob- scure in the attempt to be grand or impressive , but no one ...
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Page 100 - Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head, Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Page 191 - Maenad, even from the dim verge Of the horizon to the zenith's height, The locks of the approaching storm. Thou dirge Of the dying year...
Page 401 - This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Page 90 - All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
Page 192 - If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear; If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee; A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share The impulse of thy strength, only less free Than thou, O uncontrollable!
Page 90 - Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. About, about, in reel and rout The death-fires danced at night; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue, and white.
Page 96 - They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose, Nor spake, nor moved their eyes; It had been strange, even in a dream,! To have seen those dead men rise. The helmsman steered, the ship moved on; Yet never a breeze...
Page 18 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Page 100 - Is this the hill? is this the kirk? Is this mine own countree ? We drifted o'er the harbour-bar, And I with sobs did pray — O let me be awake, my God! Or let me sleep alway.
Page 91 - With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, We could nor laugh nor wail; Through utter drought all dumb we stood ! I bit my arm, I sucked .the blood, And cried, A sail! a sail! With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, Agape they heard me call : Gramercy! they for joy did grin, And all at once their breath drew in, As they were drinking all. See! see! (I cried) she tacks no more! Hither to work us weal; Without a breeze, without a tide, She steadies with upright keel!