Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 37John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1856 - American periodicals |
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... nature of that impulse , and what were the circumstances which retarded so long the public exhibi- tion of his talent . For this purpose let us glance at the little that is known of this portion of his life . aright , was young Butler ...
... nature of that impulse , and what were the circumstances which retarded so long the public exhibi- tion of his talent . For this purpose let us glance at the little that is known of this portion of his life . aright , was young Butler ...
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... Nature hath fitted for that mystery , rhyme is no impediment to his conceipt , but rather gives him wings to mount , and carries him not out of his course , but , as it were , be- yond his power , and a far happier flight ; " and again ...
... Nature hath fitted for that mystery , rhyme is no impediment to his conceipt , but rather gives him wings to mount , and carries him not out of his course , but , as it were , be- yond his power , and a far happier flight ; " and again ...
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... natural austerity of disposition which had probably always saved him from even the more venial forms of vice , he ... nature in his time . We do not know how we can better give an idea of Butler's real char- acter and temper than by ...
... natural austerity of disposition which had probably always saved him from even the more venial forms of vice , he ... nature in his time . We do not know how we can better give an idea of Butler's real char- acter and temper than by ...
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... nature of Butler's satire , that , finding all to be equally censurable , it should express itself rather in represen- tative portraits of classes , than in person- alities . Occasionally , however , as in the character entiled " A Duke ...
... nature of Butler's satire , that , finding all to be equally censurable , it should express itself rather in represen- tative portraits of classes , than in person- alities . Occasionally , however , as in the character entiled " A Duke ...
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... nature , decidedly of that order of mind which , by way of philosophic distinction , may be called the descendental ; a man , the basis of whose intellectual being was strong , solid , but very hard and earthly sense . One might compare ...
... nature , decidedly of that order of mind which , by way of philosophic distinction , may be called the descendental ; a man , the basis of whose intellectual being was strong , solid , but very hard and earthly sense . One might compare ...
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Page 437 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Page 321 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be ; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me...
Page 44 - It is good, in discourse and speech of conversation, to vary and intermingle speech of the present occasion with arguments, tales with reasons, asking of questions with telling of opinions, and jest with earnest: for it is a dull thing to tire, and, as we say now, to jade, any thing too far.
Page 54 - That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Page 429 - Camden, most reverend head, to whom I owe All that I am in arts, all that I know, (How nothing's that?) to whom my country owes The great renown, and name wherewith she goes.
Page 4 - When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion, as for punk; Whose honesty they all durst swear for, Though not a man of them knew wherefore: When Gospel-Trumpeter, surrounded With long-ear'd rout, to battle sounded, And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist, instead of a stick; Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a colonelling.
Page 4 - For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true church militant; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery; And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks...
Page 4 - WHEN civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out, they knew not why ; When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion, as for punk ; VOL.
Page 4 - For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope; And when he happened to break off I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, H...
Page 424 - Lord had touched with heavenly zeal for his truth, they shook off this yoke of anti-Christian bondage, and as the Lord's free people, joined themselves (by a covenant of the Lord) into a church estate, in the fellowship of the gospel, to walk in all his ways, made known, or to be made known unto them, according to their best endeavors, whatsoever it should cost them, the Lord assisting them.