The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 10A. Constable & Company, 1821 - English literature |
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... muse , Which for his firmness does his heat excuse ; Whatever counsels have approved his creed , The preface , sure , was his own act and deed . Our church will have the preface read , you'll say : ' Tis true , but so she will the ...
... muse , Which for his firmness does his heat excuse ; Whatever counsels have approved his creed , The preface , sure , was his own act and deed . Our church will have the preface read , you'll say : ' Tis true , but so she will the ...
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... muse , To do faith right , yet reason disabuse . How cheerfully the soul does take its flight On faith's strong wings , guided by reason's light ! But reason does in vain her beams display , Shewing to th ' place , whence first she came ...
... muse , To do faith right , yet reason disabuse . How cheerfully the soul does take its flight On faith's strong wings , guided by reason's light ! But reason does in vain her beams display , Shewing to th ' place , whence first she came ...
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... muse ! No terms thy feeble art can use Are able to adorn so vast a woe . The grief of all the rest like subject - grief did show , His , like a sovereign's , did transcend ; No wife , no brother , such a grief could know , Nor any name ...
... muse ! No terms thy feeble art can use Are able to adorn so vast a woe . The grief of all the rest like subject - grief did show , His , like a sovereign's , did transcend ; No wife , no brother , such a grief could know , Nor any name ...
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... other parts of David's conduct , in a series of lectures by the late Reverend Dr John Erskine , one of the ministers of the Old Greyfriars church in Edinburgh . Thus far my muse , though rudely , has design'd THRENODIA AUGUSTALIS . 69.
... other parts of David's conduct , in a series of lectures by the late Reverend Dr John Erskine , one of the ministers of the Old Greyfriars church in Edinburgh . Thus far my muse , though rudely , has design'd THRENODIA AUGUSTALIS . 69.
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Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes John Dryden, Walter Scott. Thus far my muse , though rudely , has design'd Some faint resemblance of his godlike mind ; But neither pen nor pencil can express The parting brother's tenderness ...
Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes John Dryden, Walter Scott. Thus far my muse , though rudely , has design'd Some faint resemblance of his godlike mind ; But neither pen nor pencil can express The parting brother's tenderness ...
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Page 238 - Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the LORD'S sake, whether it be to the King as supreme, or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of them that do well.
Page 37 - DIM as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul : and as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day.
Page 147 - Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut, where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
Page 428 - But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through and make a lucid interval ; But Shadwell's genuine night admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day.
Page 153 - The Body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten, in the Supper, only after an heavenly and spiritual manner. And the mean whereby the Body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper is Faith.
Page 427 - Through all the realms of Nonsense absolute. This aged prince, now flourishing in peace And blest with issue of a large increase, Worn out with business, did at length debate To settle the succession of the state ; And pondering which of all his sons was fit To reign and wage immortal war with wit, Cried, ' 'Tis resolved, for Nature pleads that he Should only rule who most resembles me.
Page 147 - And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them. Then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst and said, Peace be unto you.
Page 433 - This is thy province, this thy wondrous way, New humours to invent for each new play : This is that boasted bias of thy mind, By which, one way, to dulness 'tis inclined: Which makes thy writings lean on one side still, And, in all changes, that way bends thy will.
Page 15 - WHOSOEVER will be saved : before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith. Which Faith, except every one do keep whole and undefiled : without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.
Page 41 - Whence but from Heaven could men, unskilled in arts, In several ages born, in several parts, Weave such agreeing truths? or how or why Should all conspire to cheat us with a lie? Unasked their pains, ungrateful their advice, Starving their gain and martyrdom their price.