Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British and American Authors, with Specimens of Their Writings, 3–4. köideRobert Chambers American Book Exchange, 1830 |
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... gives an account in his ' Journal : ' Interview with Oliver Cromwell . After Captain Drury had lodged me at the Mermaid , over against the Mews at Charing Cross , he went to give the Protector an account of me . When he came to me again ...
... gives an account in his ' Journal : ' Interview with Oliver Cromwell . After Captain Drury had lodged me at the Mermaid , over against the Mews at Charing Cross , he went to give the Protector an account of me . When he came to me again ...
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... give it up , whenever the Commander - in - chief required . To quit his laborious sentry- post ; honourably lay up his arms , and be gone to his rest - all eternity to rest in George ! Was thy own life merry , for example , in the ...
... give it up , whenever the Commander - in - chief required . To quit his laborious sentry- post ; honourably lay up his arms , and be gone to his rest - all eternity to rest in George ! Was thy own life merry , for example , in the ...
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... give nobility , which heathens themselves agree , then families are no longer truly noble than they are virtuous . And if virtue go not by blood , but by the qualifications of the descendants , it follows , blood is excluded ; else ...
... give nobility , which heathens themselves agree , then families are no longer truly noble than they are virtuous . And if virtue go not by blood , but by the qualifications of the descendants , it follows , blood is excluded ; else ...
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... gives you any . I charge you help the poor and needy : let the Lord have a voluntary share of your income for the good of ... give you any . Yea , I counsel and command them as my posterity , that they love and serve the Lord God with an ...
... gives you any . I charge you help the poor and needy : let the Lord have a voluntary share of your income for the good of ... give you any . Yea , I counsel and command them as my posterity , that they love and serve the Lord God with an ...
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... give thyself up to follow lust and vanity , surely great will be thy condemnation . ' But this appeal had no effect in stopping persecution ; for after Barclay's return from Holland and Germany , which he had visited in company with Fox ...
... give thyself up to follow lust and vanity , surely great will be thy condemnation . ' But this appeal had no effect in stopping persecution ; for after Barclay's return from Holland and Germany , which he had visited in company with Fox ...
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Page 21 - O'erhang his wavy bed: Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises, 'midst the twilight path Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum...
Page 64 - THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frowned not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, . Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to misery all he had, a tear: He gained from heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend.
Page 133 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree, While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed; And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round.
Page 395 - Unanxious for ourselves ; and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty man suspects himself a fool: Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve ; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves; and re-resolves; then dies the same.
Page 3 - Unconscious lies, effuse your mildest beams, Ye constellations, while your angels strike, Amid the spangled sky, the silver lyre. Great source of day ! best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On nature write with every beam his praise.
Page 64 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favourite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; 'The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 395 - Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, " That all men are about to live," For ever on the brink of being born : All pay themselves the compliment to think They one day shall not drivel, and their pride On this reversion takes up ready praise ; At least their own ; their future selves...
Page 21 - midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams. Or if chill blustering winds, or driving rain, Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut, That, from the mountain's side, Views wilds, and swelling floods, And hamlets brown, and dim-discovered spires ; And hears their simple bell ; and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Page 193 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys: So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
Page 22 - When Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft, to hear her shell, Thronged around her magic cell ; Exulting, trembling, raging, fainting, Possessed beyond the muse's painting ; By turns they felt the glowing mind Disturbed, delighted, raised, refined ; Till once, 'tis said, when all were fired, Filled with fury, rapt, inspired, From the supporting myrtles round, They snatched her instruments of sound ; And as they oft had heard apart Sweet lessons of her...