The Life of William Warburton ...: With Remarks on His WorksLongman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1863 - 655 pages |
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... kind of verse he produced in his days of incipient authorship . The version of Addison's ' Pygmies and Cranes , ' in imi- tation of the blank verse of Milton , is his best effort , a result which may seem surprising when we remember the ...
... kind of verse he produced in his days of incipient authorship . The version of Addison's ' Pygmies and Cranes , ' in imi- tation of the blank verse of Milton , is his best effort , a result which may seem surprising when we remember the ...
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... kind of abor- tive birth . I used to make it one part of my amuse- ment in reading the English poets those of them , I mean , whose vein flows regularly and constantly , as well as clearly , to trace them to their sources , and to ...
... kind of abor- tive birth . I used to make it one part of my amuse- ment in reading the English poets those of them , I mean , whose vein flows regularly and constantly , as well as clearly , to trace them to their sources , and to ...
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... kind of subjects he had at that youthful period of his life employed his thoughts ; subjects which were to occupy them to a far greater extent in the chief work of his maturer years . In regard to Sallust , he makes one very acute ...
... kind of subjects he had at that youthful period of his life employed his thoughts ; subjects which were to occupy them to a far greater extent in the chief work of his maturer years . In regard to Sallust , he makes one very acute ...
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... kind , were unquestionably Theobald's own . Theobald , as a commentator , has suffered great injustice from Pope's days almost to the present time . One of the few tributes to his merits is a slight remark of Dr. Warton's . This edition ...
... kind , were unquestionably Theobald's own . Theobald , as a commentator , has suffered great injustice from Pope's days almost to the present time . One of the few tributes to his merits is a slight remark of Dr. Warton's . This edition ...
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... every country where he had been , societies of this kind , subsisting pro- fitably to themselves and beneficially to the public ; for not to think he came amongst them with a view to his own profit principally would , indeed , be absurd ;
... every country where he had been , societies of this kind , subsisting pro- fitably to themselves and beneficially to the public ; for not to think he came amongst them with a view to his own profit principally would , indeed , be absurd ;
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Page 165 - God loves from whole to parts : but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next ; and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
Page 28 - 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...
Page 161 - Where grows ? — where grows it not ? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil...
Page 93 - I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Page 94 - From men which are thy hand, O Lord, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
Page 154 - Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing: To his music plants and flowers Ever sprung ; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring.
Page 97 - But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
Page 210 - ... in the full blaze of his majesty, up rose the sun; than which one object alone -in this lower creation could be more glorious, and that Mr. Allworthy himself presented, — a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator, by doing most good to his creatures.
Page 523 - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Page 96 - If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young; but thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee ; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.