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... wrote the first century of his Resolves at the age of eighteen , and lived the life of a dependant , is a harsh and quaint writer , full of sententious commonplaces . This young man , who was also poor , offers a striking example of an ...
... wrote the first century of his Resolves at the age of eighteen , and lived the life of a dependant , is a harsh and quaint writer , full of sententious commonplaces . This young man , who was also poor , offers a striking example of an ...
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... wrote clever verse also ; no one would call either a great poet , yet they were great writers . Johnson's Rasselas , and the Lives of the Poets , place the prose writer where neither Irene nor London could by any possibility have placed ...
... wrote clever verse also ; no one would call either a great poet , yet they were great writers . Johnson's Rasselas , and the Lives of the Poets , place the prose writer where neither Irene nor London could by any possibility have placed ...
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... wrote altogether only fourteen , we believe ) are unequalled . But though our great living poet rarely rises as high as Milton , yet his copiousness and un- matched volubility of expression combine to give him the precedence ...
... wrote altogether only fourteen , we believe ) are unequalled . But though our great living poet rarely rises as high as Milton , yet his copiousness and un- matched volubility of expression combine to give him the precedence ...
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... wrote none : neither did any of the religious poets of that age , Quarles , Herbert , Donne , or Crashaw . Cowley , in his fine - spun reveries , comes near- est to the matter of the best sonnet - writers , but his manner is different ...
... wrote none : neither did any of the religious poets of that age , Quarles , Herbert , Donne , or Crashaw . Cowley , in his fine - spun reveries , comes near- est to the matter of the best sonnet - writers , but his manner is different ...
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... wrote but few sonnets , but they are among the most admirable of the fragments of his poetic genius . Most of them are political , celebrating some one of his fa- vorite heroes , Burke , Priestley , Erskine , Sheridan , Koscius- ko ...
... wrote but few sonnets , but they are among the most admirable of the fragments of his poetic genius . Most of them are political , celebrating some one of his fa- vorite heroes , Burke , Priestley , Erskine , Sheridan , Koscius- ko ...
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Página 71 - 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 travel...
Página 68 - Piety displays Her mouldering roll, the piercing eye explores New manners, and the pomp of elder days, Whence culls the pensive bard his pictur'd stores. Nor rough, nor barren, are the winding ways Of hoar Antiquity, but strown with flowers.
Página 63 - SLEEP, Silence' child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince, whose approach peace to all mortals brings, Indifferent host to shepherds and to kings, Sole comforter of minds with grief...
Página 86 - With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows, richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow To the full-voiced quire below, In service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes.
Página 58 - Come, Sleep, O Sleep, the certain knot of peace, The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, The indifferent judge between the high and low!
Página 58 - ... most alone in greatest company, With dearth of words, or answers quite awry, To them that would make speech of speech arise; They deem, and of their doom the rumour flies, That poison foul of bubbling Pride doth lie So in my swelling breast, that only I Fawn on myself, and others do despise; Yet Pride, I think, doth not my soul possess, Which looks too oft in his unflattering glass; But one worse fault — Ambition — I confess, That makes me oft my best friends overpass, Unseen, unheard —...
Página 105 - THERE are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an Angel's wing.
Página 65 - If deed of honour did thee ever please, Guard them, and him within protect from harms. He can requite thee, for he knows the charms That call fame on such gentle acts as these, And he can spread thy name o'er lands and seas, Whatever clime the sun's bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muses...
Página 86 - But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embow-ed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Página 113 - It is, properly, from the elevated mind of France, that the folly of titles has been abolished.