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... give the credit to his friend and assistant , Andrew Marvell , who had been elected to Hull : others , to Sir William Dave- nant , who thus repaid an obligation he had incurred to the poet ; but , at all events , he was fortunate enough ...
... give the credit to his friend and assistant , Andrew Marvell , who had been elected to Hull : others , to Sir William Dave- nant , who thus repaid an obligation he had incurred to the poet ; but , at all events , he was fortunate enough ...
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... Give me but what this ribbon bound , Take all the rest the sun goes round . " وو and his It is a characteristic of his good and passionless verse that it was always the same , in old age as in early man- hood ; drawing ingenious ...
... Give me but what this ribbon bound , Take all the rest the sun goes round . " وو and his It is a characteristic of his good and passionless verse that it was always the same , in old age as in early man- hood ; drawing ingenious ...
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... give this respite or pause between every stanza ( having endeavoured that each should contain a period ) than to run him out of breath with continued couplets . Nor doth alternate rhyme by any lowliness of cadence make the sound less ...
... give this respite or pause between every stanza ( having endeavoured that each should contain a period ) than to run him out of breath with continued couplets . Nor doth alternate rhyme by any lowliness of cadence make the sound less ...
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... gives an account of his aim and purpose , which shows that Davenant was not incapable of serious and elevated thought . He desires to bring the world under the rule of a single monarchy , not to gratify a mean ambition , but in order to ...
... gives an account of his aim and purpose , which shows that Davenant was not incapable of serious and elevated thought . He desires to bring the world under the rule of a single monarchy , not to gratify a mean ambition , but in order to ...
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... give a specimen or two of the poet's happier flights : - " And now the weary world's great medicine , Sleep . This learned host dispensed to every guest , Which shuts those wounds where injured lovers weep , And flies oppressors to ...
... give a specimen or two of the poet's happier flights : - " And now the weary world's great medicine , Sleep . This learned host dispensed to every guest , Which shuts those wounds where injured lovers weep , And flies oppressors to ...
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Seite 260 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing of his wings, till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant and stay till the storm was over ; and then...
Seite 352 - Richard, Richard, dost thou think we will let thee poison the court ? Richard, thou art an old knave. Thou hast written books enough to load a cart, and every book as full of sedition as an egg is full of meat. By the grace of God, I'll look after thee. I see a great many of your brotherhood waiting to know what will befall their mighty Don. And there," he continued, fixing his savage eye on Bates, "there is a Doctor of the party at your elbow.
Seite 89 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Seite 100 - t depends Not on the number, but the choice of friends. Books should, not business, entertain the light, And sleep, as undisturbed as death, the night. My house a cottage, more Than palace, and should fitting be For all my use, no luxury. My garden painted o'er With Nature's hand, not Art's ; and pleasures yield, Horace might envy in his Sabine field.
Seite 84 - Him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon, i with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of...
Seite 336 - Forgive, me, LORD, for Thy dear SON, The ill that I this day have done ; That with the world, myself, and Thee, I, ere I sleep, at peace may be.
Seite 260 - ... and frequent weighing of his wings; till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant, and stay till the storm was over; and then it made a prosperous flight, and did rise and sing, as if it had learned music and motion from an angel, as he passed sometimes through the air, about his ministries here below. So is the prayer of a good man...
Seite 412 - To us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
Seite 207 - Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy ! Railing and praising were his usual themes, And both, to show his judgment, in extremes^ So over violent or over civil That every man with him was God or Devil.
Seite 30 - BO •universal, and the people so astonished, that from the beginning, I know not by what despondency or fate, they hardly stirred to quench it, so that there was nothing heard or seen but crying out and lamentation, running about like distracted creatures, without at all attempting to save even their goods, such a strange consternation there was upon them...