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... English Literature at King's College School , London ; Editor of ' Longer English Poems , ' & c . Oxford AT THE CLARENDON PRESS M DCCC LXXIV [ All rights reserved ] INTRODUCTION . SECTION I. THE YEAR ( 1644 ) . Clarendon Press Series.
... English Literature at King's College School , London ; Editor of ' Longer English Poems , ' & c . Oxford AT THE CLARENDON PRESS M DCCC LXXIV [ All rights reserved ] INTRODUCTION . SECTION I. THE YEAR ( 1644 ) . Clarendon Press Series.
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... English Literature at King's College School , London ; Editor of ' Longer English Poems , ' & c . Oxford AT THE CLARENDON PRESS M DCCC LXXIV [ All rights reserved ] INTRODUCTION . SECTION I. THE YEAR ( 1644 ) . Clarendon Press Series.
... English Literature at King's College School , London ; Editor of ' Longer English Poems , ' & c . Oxford AT THE CLARENDON PRESS M DCCC LXXIV [ All rights reserved ] INTRODUCTION . SECTION I. THE YEAR ( 1644 ) . Clarendon Press Series.
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... school of Py- thagoras , and the Persian wisdom , took beginning from the old Philosophy of this Iland . And that wise and civill Roman Julius Agricola , who govern'd once here for Cæsar , preferr'd the naturall wits of Britain before ...
... school of Py- thagoras , and the Persian wisdom , took beginning from the old Philosophy of this Iland . And that wise and civill Roman Julius Agricola , who govern'd once here for Cæsar , preferr'd the naturall wits of Britain before ...
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... school , if we have only scapt the ferular to come under the fescue of an imprimatur ? ' But these things do not ' tire ' and dishearten Milton . Rather they inflame him with a noble rage ; and so , in a very splendour of wrath , he ...
... school , if we have only scapt the ferular to come under the fescue of an imprimatur ? ' But these things do not ' tire ' and dishearten Milton . Rather they inflame him with a noble rage ; and so , in a very splendour of wrath , he ...
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... schools of ancient sages ; his , who bred Great Alexander to subdue the world , Lyceum there , and painted Stoa next . ' 1 Epist . Fam . 15 . لقاعدة scated . Chist does not as mec PRIV 136 . Barlac It was one of the dearest hopes of his ...
... schools of ancient sages ; his , who bred Great Alexander to subdue the world , Lyceum there , and painted Stoa next . ' 1 Epist . Fam . 15 . لقاعدة scated . Chist does not as mec PRIV 136 . Barlac It was one of the dearest hopes of his ...
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Page xxxiii - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days: But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life.
Page 130 - Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man seeking goodly pearls : who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
Page 96 - The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass On which the Tartar king did ride; And if aught else great bards beside In sage and solemn tunes have sung, Of turneys, and of trophies hung, Of forests, and enchantments drear, Where more is meant than meets the ear.
Page xxxiii - I trust hereby to make it manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Page 101 - What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up and are not fed, But swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly and foul contagion spread; Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once and smite no more.
Page 18 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Page 111 - ... let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another ; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
Page xi - Thou hast left behind Powers that will work for thee; air, earth, and skies; There's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee; thou hast great allies; Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind.
Page 130 - Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world ; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort ; and in secret have I said nothing. Why askest thou me ? ask them which heard me, what I have said unto them : behold, they know what I said.
Page 6 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. 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, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.