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Pàgina 6
... 'd with numbers in th ' unequal field , His men discourag'd , and himself expell'd : Let him for succour sue from place to place , Torn from his subjects and his son's embrace . and to have given some credit to the answer of 6 COWLEY .
... 'd with numbers in th ' unequal field , His men discourag'd , and himself expell'd : Let him for succour sue from place to place , Torn from his subjects and his son's embrace . and to have given some credit to the answer of 6 COWLEY .
Pàgina 7
Samuel Johnson. and to have given some credit to the answer of his oracle . Some years afterwards , " business , " says Sprat , " pas- " sed of course into other hands ; " and Cowley , being no longer useful at Paris , was in 1656 sent ...
Samuel Johnson. and to have given some credit to the answer of his oracle . Some years afterwards , " business , " says Sprat , " pas- " sed of course into other hands ; " and Cowley , being no longer useful at Paris , was in 1656 sent ...
Pàgina 19
... answer in some proportion ; All the world's riches : and in good men , this Virtue , our form's form , and our soul's soul , is . Of thoughts so far - fetched , as to be not only unex- pected , but unnatural , all their books are full ...
... answer in some proportion ; All the world's riches : and in good men , this Virtue , our form's form , and our soul's soul , is . Of thoughts so far - fetched , as to be not only unex- pected , but unnatural , all their books are full ...
Pàgina 68
... answer , in which he endeavours to per- suade him , that the delay proceeds not from the delights of desultory study , but from the desire of obtaining more fitness for his task ; and that he goes on , not taking thought of being late ...
... answer , in which he endeavours to per- suade him , that the delay proceeds not from the delights of desultory study , but from the desire of obtaining more fitness for his task ; and that he goes on , not taking thought of being late ...
Pàgina 75
... Answer , a Confutation was attempted by the learned Usher ; and to the Confutation Milton published a Reply , intituled , Of Prelatical Episcopacy , and whether it may be deduced from the Apostolical Times , by virtue of those ...
... Answer , a Confutation was attempted by the learned Usher ; and to the Confutation Milton published a Reply , intituled , Of Prelatical Episcopacy , and whether it may be deduced from the Apostolical Times , by virtue of those ...
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Pàgina 312 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Pàgina 51 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Pàgina 60 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; Alike...
Pàgina 305 - And now approach'd their fleet from India, fraught With all the riches of the rising sun ; And precious sand from southern climates brought, The fatal regions where the war begun.
Pàgina 117 - We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night, Oft till the star that rose at evening bright Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel.
Pàgina 31 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet when the .other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely run: Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.
Pàgina 23 - On a round ball A workeman that hath copies by, can lay An Europe, Afrique, and an Asia, And quickly make that, which was nothing, All...
Pàgina 172 - I take my subjects' money, when I want it, without all this formality of parliament?" The bishop of Durham readily answered, "God forbid, Sir, but you should: you are the breath of our nostrils." Whereupon the King turned and said to the bishop of Winchester, "Well, my Lord, what say you?" "Sir," replied the bishop, "I have no skill to judge of parliamentary cases." The King answered, "No put-offs, my Lord; answer me presently.
Pàgina 117 - In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind.
Pàgina 18 - What they wanted, however, of the sublime, they endeavoured to supply by hyperbole ' their amplification had no limits ; they left not only reason but fancy behind them, and produced combinations of confused magnificence that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined.