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... truths enunciated with epigrammatic terseness and point . There is much also of the element of poetry in both the thoughts and language . The style , indeed , savours somewhat of affectation . There is too much laboured antithesis ...
... truths enunciated with epigrammatic terseness and point . There is much also of the element of poetry in both the thoughts and language . The style , indeed , savours somewhat of affectation . There is too much laboured antithesis ...
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... truth ; that the abuse of a thing is no argument against its use ; and that great men have loved poetry and patronized poets . He concludes with a review of the state of poetry in England , a criticism on the violation of the unities by ...
... truth ; that the abuse of a thing is no argument against its use ; and that great men have loved poetry and patronized poets . He concludes with a review of the state of poetry in England , a criticism on the violation of the unities by ...
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... truth may be the more palpable ; and so , I hope , though we get not so unmatched a praise as the etymology of his names will grant , yet his very description , which no man will deny , shall not justly be barred from a principal ...
... truth may be the more palpable ; and so , I hope , though we get not so unmatched a praise as the etymology of his names will grant , yet his very description , which no man will deny , shall not justly be barred from a principal ...
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... truth out of parti- ality ; better acquainted with a thousand years ago than with the present age , and yet better knowing how this world goes than how his own wit runs ; curious for antiquities , and inquisitive of novel- ties ; a ...
... truth out of parti- ality ; better acquainted with a thousand years ago than with the present age , and yet better knowing how this world goes than how his own wit runs ; curious for antiquities , and inquisitive of novel- ties ; a ...
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... truth to stand in rank with these , who all en- deavour to take naughtiness away , and plant goodness even in the secretest cabinet of our souls : and these four are all that any way deal in the consideration of men's manners ; which ...
... truth to stand in rank with these , who all en- deavour to take naughtiness away , and plant goodness even in the secretest cabinet of our souls : and these four are all that any way deal in the consideration of men's manners ; which ...
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actions admiration Alemanni amongst ancient Aristotle Atheism beauty body called cause character Christian Church Cicero Clovis common commonwealth consent death delight Demosthenes divine Dryden effect eloquence enemy England English Epaminondas Essay Faery Queen father favour fortune Gaul genius Gentlemen of Verona give Greece happiness hath honour House of Stuart human Hyder Ali ideas imagination judgment Juvenal king knowledge Lacedaemonians language Latin learning liberty lived Lord mankind manners matter means memory ment Milton mind monarchy moral nation nature never object observed opinion Paradise Lost passions peace perhaps persons philosophy pleasure Plutarch poem poet poetry political possession Prince principle prose reason religion Roman seems sense sentiments Shakspere society sometimes Sparta Spenser spirit style Syagrius Tacitus Thebans Thebes things thou thought tion truth unto victory virtue Visigoths whole words writers
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Página 329 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone...
Página 313 - Straits — while we are looking for them beneath the Arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of Polar cold — that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south...
Página 329 - Little did I dream when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom; little did I dream...
Página 163 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Página 109 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam, — purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble...
Página 195 - ... them into the tide and immediately disappeared. These hidden pitfalls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire.
Página 419 - MEN in great place are thrice servants — servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business ; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty ; or to seek power over others, and to lose. power over a man's self.
Página 15 - ... if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course, should as it were through a languishing faintness begin to stand and to rest himself; if the moon should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp...
Página 196 - I could discover nothing in it: but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands...
Página 35 - ... most properly do imitate to teach and delight; and, to imitate, borrow nothing of what is, hath been, or shall be: but range, only reined with learned discretion, into the divine consideration of what may be, and should be.