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Page ii
... poetry , he ceased to be so when he took his course over the less ele- vated regions of prose . There cannot be a greater difference between the writings of any two authors , than between his poetical and prose works ; whilst the former ...
... poetry , he ceased to be so when he took his course over the less ele- vated regions of prose . There cannot be a greater difference between the writings of any two authors , than between his poetical and prose works ; whilst the former ...
Page vii
... poetry , was his casual lighting on Spen- ser's Faery Queene , when he was but just able to read . That , indeed , is a poem fitter for the examination of men , than the consideration of a child . But in him it met with a fancy , whose ...
... poetry , was his casual lighting on Spen- ser's Faery Queene , when he was but just able to read . That , indeed , is a poem fitter for the examination of men , than the consideration of a child . But in him it met with a fancy , whose ...
Page xii
... poetry , and so ought rather to be esteemed as a problem of his fancy and invention , than as the real image of his judgment . But his defence in this matter may be laid on a surer foundation . This is the true reason that is to be ...
... poetry , and so ought rather to be esteemed as a problem of his fancy and invention , than as the real image of his judgment . But his defence in this matter may be laid on a surer foundation . This is the true reason that is to be ...
Page xvii
... poetry indeed he took with him , but he made that an ancho- rite as well as himself ; he only dedicated it to the service of his Maker , to describe the great images of religion and virtue wherewith his mind abounded . And he employed ...
... poetry indeed he took with him , but he made that an ancho- rite as well as himself ; he only dedicated it to the service of his Maker , to describe the great images of religion and virtue wherewith his mind abounded . And he employed ...
Page xix
... poetry , as well as in mankind : that , as the peculiar excellence of the feminine kind is smoothness and beauty , so strength is the chief praise of the masculine . He had a perfect mastery in both the languages in which he writ but ...
... poetry , as well as in mankind : that , as the peculiar excellence of the feminine kind is smoothness and beauty , so strength is the chief praise of the masculine . He had a perfect mastery in both the languages in which he writ but ...
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Page 171 - Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
Page 226 - This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high. Some honour I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone. The unknown are better than ill known. Rumour can ope the grave; Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends Not on the number, but the choice of friends.
Page 203 - And they said : Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 227 - Thus would I double my life's fading space, For he that runs it well, twice runs his race. And in this true delight, These unbought sports, that happy state, I would not fear nor wish my fate, But boldly say each night, To-morrow let my sun his beams display, Or in clouds hide them; I have lived to-day.
Page 83 - Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
Page 130 - Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.
Page 133 - Here let me careless and unthoughtful lying, Hear the soft winds above me flying With all their wanton boughs dispute, And the more tuneful birds to both replying, Nor be myself too mute.
Page 231 - Nor by me e'er shall you, You of all names the sweetest, and the best, You Muses, books, and liberty, and rest; You gardens, fields, and woods forsaken be, As long as life itself forsakes not me.
Page 58 - ... to usurp three kingdoms without any shadow of the least pretensions, and to govern them as unjustly as he got them ? to set himself up as an idol (which we know, as St. Paul says, in itself is nothing), and make the very streets of London like the valley of Hinnon, by burning the bowels of men as a sacrifice to his Molochship...
Page 181 - If e'er ambition did my fancy cheat, With any wish so mean as to be great, Continue, Heaven, still from me to remove The humble blessings of that life I love.