The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 37Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1856 - American literature |
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... head had been cut off ; and , lastly , Milton , the true literary representative of Puritanism and the Commonwealth , though he had forsaken for the time the softer muse of his youth , was still conspicuously at work , shaking the very ...
... head had been cut off ; and , lastly , Milton , the true literary representative of Puritanism and the Commonwealth , though he had forsaken for the time the softer muse of his youth , was still conspicuously at work , shaking the very ...
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... head . Had the pamphlet been published , it would really have done some service in the cause of the Restoration , while that question was being debated , and Monk's intentions were uncertain . It is evident , in short , that Butler took ...
... head . Had the pamphlet been published , it would really have done some service in the cause of the Restoration , while that question was being debated , and Monk's intentions were uncertain . It is evident , in short , that Butler took ...
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... head that he ought to put down this bear- makes in his Diary on the 26th of Decem- baiting as a heathenish practice , and how ber , 1662 , the day after Christmas , " and he and the more reluctant Ralpho debat- hither come Mr. Battersby ...
... head that he ought to put down this bear- makes in his Diary on the 26th of Decem- baiting as a heathenish practice , and how ber , 1662 , the day after Christmas , " and he and the more reluctant Ralpho debat- hither come Mr. Battersby ...
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... head and represen- was chiefly , however , among men more or tative man , during the first eight years less ... heads of his party ; and now , blind and desolate , a spiritual relic of the past rather than an actual part of the present ...
... head and represen- was chiefly , however , among men more or tative man , during the first eight years less ... heads of his party ; and now , blind and desolate , a spiritual relic of the past rather than an actual part of the present ...
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... head cut off before he can arrive . " In their horror of republican institutions , under which their piety and competency had been so severe- ly tested , the Anglican clergy had preach- ed the insane doctrine of non - resistance to the ...
... head cut off before he can arrive . " In their horror of republican institutions , under which their piety and competency had been so severe- ly tested , the Anglican clergy had preach- ed the insane doctrine of non - resistance to the ...
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Page 435 - 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 319 - 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 10 - The wrong, than others the right way; Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to.
Page 10 - Twas Presbyterian true blue, 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 50 - 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 60 - 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 10 - 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 443 - Though old Ulysses tortured from his slumbers The glutted Cyclops, what care? — Juliet leaning Amid her window-flowers, — sighing, — weaning Tenderly her fancy from its maiden snow, Doth more avail than these: the silver flow Of Hero's tears, the swoon of Imogen, Fair Pastorella in the bandit's den, Are things to brood on with more ardency Than the death-day of empires.
Page 10 - 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-eared 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 64 - Pasquin. A Dramatick Satire on the Times : Being the Rehearsal of Two Plays, viz. A Comedy call'd The Election ; and a Tragedy call'd The Life and Death of Common-Sense.