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... delights of Latium , and those high - sounding words uttered by the eloquent Greeks , which were wont to become the mouth of Ingatestone , Essex , who inherited it from his grandfather , Dr. Disney , who inherited it from Thomas Hollis ...
... delights of Latium , and those high - sounding words uttered by the eloquent Greeks , which were wont to become the mouth of Ingatestone , Essex , who inherited it from his grandfather , Dr. Disney , who inherited it from Thomas Hollis ...
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... delight . ' 3 ' Hail native language , that by sinews weak Did'st move my first endeavouring tongue to speak ; And mad'st imperfect words with childish trips , Half unpronounc'd , slide through my infant lips ; 1 Apology for Smectymnuus ...
... delight . ' 3 ' Hail native language , that by sinews weak Did'st move my first endeavouring tongue to speak ; And mad'st imperfect words with childish trips , Half unpronounc'd , slide through my infant lips ; 1 Apology for Smectymnuus ...
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... delights of the year , and not less of your conversation ; and will then withdraw myself from the din of town for a little to your Stoa of the Iceni ( these were the ancient inhabitants of Suffolk , & c . , and the phrase Stoa Icenorum ...
... delights of the year , and not less of your conversation ; and will then withdraw myself from the din of town for a little to your Stoa of the Iceni ( these were the ancient inhabitants of Suffolk , & c . , and the phrase Stoa Icenorum ...
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... delights with which that place overflows , I hoped to have again , for some time , that literary leisure , in which as a mode of life I believe , that even celestial souls 1 Prolusio I. ( Masson's translation ) . rejoice ; and it was ...
... delights with which that place overflows , I hoped to have again , for some time , that literary leisure , in which as a mode of life I believe , that even celestial souls 1 Prolusio I. ( Masson's translation ) . rejoice ; and it was ...
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... delighted , and wonderfully pervaded with pleasure when I see myself sur- rounded , and on all sides begirt with so great a crowd of most learned men ; and yet again , when I descend into myself , and secretly , as it were with inturned ...
... delighted , and wonderfully pervaded with pleasure when I see myself sur- rounded , and on all sides begirt with so great a crowd of most learned men ; and yet again , when I descend into myself , and secretly , as it were with inturned ...
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Page 114 - As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight, The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 85 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 83 - ... to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune ; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church ; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ...
Page 157 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine: But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Page 161 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
Page 158 - Attractive, human, rational, love still: In loving thou dost well, in passion not, Wherein true love consists not: love refines The thoughts, and heart enlarges: hath his seat In reason, and is judicious; is the scale By which to heav'nly love thou may'st ascend, Not sunk in carnal pleasure; for which cause Among the beasts no mate for thee was found.
Page 170 - The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Page 161 - She ended weeping, and her lowly plight, Immoveable till peace obtain'd from fault Acknowledged and deplored, in Adam wrought Commiseration ; soon his heart relented Towards her, his life so late and sole delight, Now at his feet submissive in distress...
Page 155 - Purification in the Old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind.
Page 171 - God of our fathers ! what is Man, That thou towards him with hand so various — Or might I say contrarious...