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... admirable simplicity and barren results . It has the advantage of judging every thing and ac- counting for nothing , thus gratifying the pride of intellect without enjoin- ing any intellectual exertion . By a steady adherence to its ...
... admirable simplicity and barren results . It has the advantage of judging every thing and ac- counting for nothing , thus gratifying the pride of intellect without enjoin- ing any intellectual exertion . By a steady adherence to its ...
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... admiration or reprehension on trust , but vindicates both , by adducing such reasons as in all ages have sufficed to demonstrate why masterpieces are master- pieces , and why failures are failures . WATSON , WILLIAM , 1893 , Excursions ...
... admiration or reprehension on trust , but vindicates both , by adducing such reasons as in all ages have sufficed to demonstrate why masterpieces are master- pieces , and why failures are failures . WATSON , WILLIAM , 1893 , Excursions ...
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... admirable hymn , happily never yet suf- fered to drop out of our memories and hymnals : - " How happy is he born or taught , Who serveth not another's will , " etc. --- PRESTON , HARRIET W. , 1879 , The Latest Songs of Chivalry ...
... admirable hymn , happily never yet suf- fered to drop out of our memories and hymnals : - " How happy is he born or taught , Who serveth not another's will , " etc. --- PRESTON , HARRIET W. , 1879 , The Latest Songs of Chivalry ...
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... admirable medium for gentle thought and florid reverie . The praise that Voltaire gave to Waller might be transferred to Carew if it were not that to give such praise to any one writer is uncritical . But Waller might never have written ...
... admirable medium for gentle thought and florid reverie . The praise that Voltaire gave to Waller might be transferred to Carew if it were not that to give such praise to any one writer is uncritical . But Waller might never have written ...
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... admiration . He is al- ways the craftsman , possessing a faculty of self - criticism rare among his compeers of that age . WATSON , WILLIAM , 1893 , Excursions in Criticism , p . 10 . Here Ford is at his best - and worst . He is the ...
... admiration . He is al- ways the craftsman , possessing a faculty of self - criticism rare among his compeers of that age . WATSON , WILLIAM , 1893 , Excursions in Criticism , p . 10 . Here Ford is at his best - and worst . He is the ...
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Page 286 - MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou...
Page 269 - I modestly but freely told him ; and after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, " Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found?
Page 284 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Page 411 - BARCLAY (ROBERT). An Apology for the True Christian Divinity AS THE SAME is HELD FORTH AND PREACHED BY THE PEOPLE, called in scorn QUAKERS...
Page 235 - I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: Of April, May, of June, and July flowers.
Page 259 - The want of human interest is always felt. Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again.
Page 279 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Page 483 - True wit is nature to advantage drest; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well exprest.
Page 494 - Whate'er he did was done with so much ease, In him alone 'twas natural to please : His motions all accompanied with grace ; And paradise was open'd in his face.
Page 198 - For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer; and for ten impressions, which his works have had in so many successive years, yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, Not being of God, he could not stand.