The Life of Andrew Marvell: The Celebrated Patriot: with Extracts and Selections from His Prose and Poetical WorksSimpkin and Marshall, 1832 - 116 páginas |
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... mind of ardent and undisciplined feeling , he went through the usual course of rapidly succeeding extremes and incon- sistent opinions . So powerful and vigorous an intellect , however , soon subsided into rational and wise views of the ...
... mind of ardent and undisciplined feeling , he went through the usual course of rapidly succeeding extremes and incon- sistent opinions . So powerful and vigorous an intellect , however , soon subsided into rational and wise views of the ...
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... mind , and the acuteness of his percep- tion . His observations and reflections , on men and manners would have been inestimable . It appears from the following letter , written at the commencement of the year 1652 , by Milton to Brad ...
... mind , and the acuteness of his percep- tion . His observations and reflections , on men and manners would have been inestimable . It appears from the following letter , written at the commencement of the year 1652 , by Milton to Brad ...
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... mind , and augurate to myself the happier success in all my proceedings . Your known pru . dence makes it unnecessary for me to leave my advice or counsell with you at parting ; yet can I not forbear , out of the super- abundance of my ...
... mind , and augurate to myself the happier success in all my proceedings . Your known pru . dence makes it unnecessary for me to leave my advice or counsell with you at parting ; yet can I not forbear , out of the super- abundance of my ...
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... mind , and clear conscience , free from faction , or any self ends , which , by the grace of God , I have hitherto preserved . " There are not many men at the present day who would obtain credit with their con- stituents , were they to ...
... mind , and clear conscience , free from faction , or any self ends , which , by the grace of God , I have hitherto preserved . " There are not many men at the present day who would obtain credit with their con- stituents , were they to ...
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... mind , that his words were an oracle to all who knew him . Upon the assembling of Parliament on February 15 , 1677 , he writes : — " I think it befits me to acquaint you , that this day the Parliament assembled , in obedience to his ...
... mind , that his words were an oracle to all who knew him . Upon the assembling of Parliament on February 15 , 1677 , he writes : — " I think it befits me to acquaint you , that this day the Parliament assembled , in obedience to his ...
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affectionate afterwards ANDREW MARVELL appears bill Bishop Bishop of Hereford Bishop of Oxford Captain Thompson character Charles Charles II Church Church of England clergy College commendams conscience constituents Corporation of Hull Court crown Danby death desire divine Doctor of Divinity doth Dryden Duke duty EARL Ecclesiastical Polity England English esteem eyes father favour Flecnoe flow'rs GENTLEMEN give Growth of Popery hand-writing hath heaven HERBERT CROFT honour House of Commons House of Lords humble humour JOHN MILTON Juliana King King's land Lauderdale letter liberty living London LORD TREASURER Lordship Majesty Marvell's ment Milton mind Naked Truth never occasion Oxenbridge Oxford Parker Parliament patriot person PLEASURE Poem poet preaching Prelate present published Rehearsal Transprosed reign religion says scarce sent servant soul spirit tears thine thing thou thought throne town virtue voted weep write
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Página 98 - TO HIS COY MISTRESS HAD we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the flood, And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews; My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires and more slow; An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes...
Página 99 - Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found, Nor in thy marble vault shall sound My echoing song; then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honour turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place, But none I think do there embrace.
Página 90 - But apples, plants of such a price, No tree could ever bear them twice. With cedars chosen by His hand From Lebanon He stores the land; And makes the hollow seas that roar Proclaim the ambergris on shore.
Página 99 - Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball, And tear our pleasures with rough strife Thorough the iron gates of life.
Página 88 - Yet could not till itself would rise, Find it, although before mine eyes ; For, in the flaxen lilies' shade, It like a bank of lilies laid. Upon the roses it would feed, Until its lips e'en seemed to bleed ; And then to me 'twould boldly trip, And print those roses on my lip.
Página 96 - The poets tag them, we for fashion wear. I too, transported by the mode, offend, And, while I meant to praise thee, must commend.
Página 96 - That majesty, which through thy work doth reign, Draws the devout, deterring the profane. And things divine thou treat'st of in such state As them preserves, and thee inviolate. At once delight and horror on us seize, Thou sing'st with so much gravity and ease ; And above human flight dost soar aloft With plume so strong, so equal, and so soft.
Página 90 - He cast (of which we rather boast) The Gospel's pearl upon our coast, And in these rocks for us did frame A temple where to sound His name. Oh ! let our voice His praise exalt, Till it arrive at Heaven's vault, Which, thence (perhaps) rebounding, may Echo beyond the Mexique Bay.
Página 36 - What have I for dinner to-day?' 'Don't you know, sir, that you bid me lay by the blade-bone to broil! "Tis so, very right, child, go away.
Página 100 - Of the clear fountain of eternal day, Could it within the human flower be seen, Remembering still its former height, Shuns the sweet leaves and blossoms green; And, recollecting its own light, Does, in its pure and circling thoughts, express The greater heaven in an heaven less.