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Page vii
... less copious and instructive than might be expected , is interesting and valuable . It supplies us with many facts respecting the Poet's manner of life , his circumstances , and opi- nions . It was written by a person who had been ...
... less copious and instructive than might be expected , is interesting and valuable . It supplies us with many facts respecting the Poet's manner of life , his circumstances , and opi- nions . It was written by a person who had been ...
Page xii
... less of arrogance in the manner in which they are pro- posed , than might have been expected , when the boldness of his system was so openly avowed . He had the humanity to leave the established text untouched : and to confine the ...
... less of arrogance in the manner in which they are pro- posed , than might have been expected , when the boldness of his system was so openly avowed . He had the humanity to leave the established text untouched : and to confine the ...
Page xx
... less surprised to hear that Spenser was alike the object of their early admiration , legendo Spensero nostro , Scriptore sane illustri , et vel adultis difficili . ' Happy had it been for Cowley's fame , had he not early wan- dered away ...
... less surprised to hear that Spenser was alike the object of their early admiration , legendo Spensero nostro , Scriptore sane illustri , et vel adultis difficili . ' Happy had it been for Cowley's fame , had he not early wan- dered away ...
Page xx
... less ; '13 —and in his third letter to his friend and tutor Alexander Gill , he expresses the same opinion , concerning the superficial and 13 See his tractate on Education , where he speaks against the preposterous exaction of ...
... less ; '13 —and in his third letter to his friend and tutor Alexander Gill , he expresses the same opinion , concerning the superficial and 13 See his tractate on Education , where he speaks against the preposterous exaction of ...
Page xxix
... less virtuous , less self- denying , or less benevolent than others ? their occupation itself almost a school of virtue : lessons of civil wisdom , and maxims of prudential conduct will be learnt by all , and is not a man eminently ...
... less virtuous , less self- denying , or less benevolent than others ? their occupation itself almost a school of virtue : lessons of civil wisdom , and maxims of prudential conduct will be learnt by all , and is not a man eminently ...
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Page 4 - A dungeon horrible on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed ; yet from those flames No light ; but rather darkness visible, Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell ; hope never comes, That comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
Page 32 - Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven, The roof was fretted gold.
Page 64 - For each seem'd either: black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 3 - With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine* chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Page 82 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note...
Page 64 - That dar'st, though grim and terrible, advance Thy miscreated front athwart my way To yonder gates ? Through them I mean to pass, That be assured, without leave asked of thee. Retire ; or taste thy folly, and learn by proof, Hell-born, not to contend with Spirits of Heaven.
Page 125 - For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God : but the woman is the glory of the man. For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman ; but the woman for the man.
Page 3 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Page 10 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream: Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 137 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...