Cambridge Characteristics in the Seventeenth Century: Or the Studies of the University and Their Influence on the Character and Writings of the Most Distinguished Graduates...Macmillan, 1867 - 205 páginas |
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... Classical studies ; D'Ewes ' account ; Downes ; Barrow ; Thomas May ; Versification ; Meric Casaubon ; Milton ; George Herbert ; Dr Pope CHAPTER III . INFLUENCE OF CAMBRIDGE STUDIES AS DISCERNIBLE IN THE CHARACTER AND WRITINGS OF DISTIN ...
... Classical studies ; D'Ewes ' account ; Downes ; Barrow ; Thomas May ; Versification ; Meric Casaubon ; Milton ; George Herbert ; Dr Pope CHAPTER III . INFLUENCE OF CAMBRIDGE STUDIES AS DISCERNIBLE IN THE CHARACTER AND WRITINGS OF DISTIN ...
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... classical research which found a ready response , and a familiarity with authors only known to the scholars of Italy by name . Curiosity was excited . The new manuscripts were eagerly purchased and expeditions were undertaken to ...
... classical research which found a ready response , and a familiarity with authors only known to the scholars of Italy by name . Curiosity was excited . The new manuscripts were eagerly purchased and expeditions were undertaken to ...
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... classical learning ; we have seen the different foundations created and enriched by noble or royal muni- ficence ; we have seen the University rising in political importance , and the ties that bound her to the throne becoming closer ...
... classical learning ; we have seen the different foundations created and enriched by noble or royal muni- ficence ; we have seen the University rising in political importance , and the ties that bound her to the throne becoming closer ...
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... done their best with equal Prowess , the Marshall of the Field , Dr Dave- nant , cast down his Warder between them and parted them . " Classical stu- dies . D'Ewes ' ac- count . Downes II . ] 53 THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY .
... done their best with equal Prowess , the Marshall of the Field , Dr Dave- nant , cast down his Warder between them and parted them . " Classical stu- dies . D'Ewes ' ac- count . Downes II . ] 53 THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY .
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... Classical stu- dies . D'Ewes ' ac- count . Downes . Barrow . The researches of young classical students appear to have extended to authors which a private tutor of the pre- sent day would probably look somewhat coldly upon , when viewed ...
... Classical stu- dies . D'Ewes ' ac- count . Downes . Barrow . The researches of young classical students appear to have extended to authors which a private tutor of the pre- sent day would probably look somewhat coldly upon , when viewed ...
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Página 199 - ... are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment, and so indeed are perfect cheats; and therefore however laudable or allowable oratory may render them in harangues and popular addresses, they are certainly, in all discourses that pretend to inform or instruct, wholly to be avoided and, where truth and knowledge are concerned, cannot but be thought a great fault either of the language or person that makes use of them.
Página 136 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years...
Página 199 - But yet if we would speak of things as they are, we must allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment, and so indeed are perfect cheats...
Página 79 - And, for the usual method of teaching Arts, I deem it to be an old error of Universities, not yet well recovered from the scholastic grossness of barbarous ages, that, instead of beginning with Arts most easy (and these be such as are most obvious to the sense), they present their young unmatriculated novices at first coming with the most intellective abstractions of Logic and Metaphysics...
Página 199 - The commonwealth of learning is not at this time without master-builders, whose mighty designs in advancing the sciences will leave lasting monuments to the admiration of posterity: but every one must not hope to be a Boyle or a Sydenham; and in an age that produces such masters as the great Huygenius, and the incomparable Mr. Newton...
Página 68 - the fringes of the north star ;' nothing of 'nature's becoming unnatural;' nothing of 'the down of angels' wings, or the beautiful locks of cherubims:' no starched similitudes introduced with a 'Thus have I seen a cloud rolling in its airy mansion,
Página 154 - Even so the soul, in this contracted state, Confined to these straight instruments of sense, More dull and narrowly doth operate ; At this hole hears, — the sight must ray from thence,— Here tastes, there smells;— but when she's gone from hence...
Página 49 - He was much for liberty of conscience; and being disgusted with the dry systematical way of those times, he studied to raise those who conversed with him to a nobler set of thoughts, and to consider religion as a seed of a deiform nature (to use one of his own phrases).
Página 87 - I may remember Jerusalem, and call to mind the pleasures of the temple, the order of her services, the beauty of her buildings, the sweetness of her songs, the decency of her ministrations, the assiduity and economy of her priests and levites, the daily sacrifice, and that eternal fire of devotion that went not out by day nor by night. These were the pleasures of our peace, and there is a remaneut felicity in the very memory of those spiritual delights which we then enjoyed, as antepasts of heaven,...
Página 71 - Say, for you saw us, ye immortal lights, How oft unwearied have we spent the nights, Till the Ledaean stars, so famed for love, Wonder'd at us from above! We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine ; But search of deep Philosophy, Wit, Eloquence, and Poetry, Arts which I loved, for they, my friend, were thine.