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... Milton's " Invocation to Light , " Pope's " Messiah , " Goldsmith's " Village Pas- tor , " and Gray's " Elegy " are illustrations of my meaning . But if any one should miss some favorite piece , let him reflect that I could not put in ...
... Milton's " Invocation to Light , " Pope's " Messiah , " Goldsmith's " Village Pas- tor , " and Gray's " Elegy " are illustrations of my meaning . But if any one should miss some favorite piece , let him reflect that I could not put in ...
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... MILTON . Considerable change will be found in this author . I was very desirous to give one of his poetical pieces entire , and selected his " Lycidas , " which , of all his minor pieces , ranks next in merit to " Comus . " This obliged ...
... MILTON . Considerable change will be found in this author . I was very desirous to give one of his poetical pieces entire , and selected his " Lycidas , " which , of all his minor pieces , ranks next in merit to " Comus . " This obliged ...
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... Milton's Residence , " additional . - BURKE . " John How- ard , " " Sir Joshua Reynolds , " " Rights of Man , " " Noisy Politicians , " all addi- tional . - JUNIUS . This author had rather more than his share before : I there- fore ...
... Milton's Residence , " additional . - BURKE . " John How- ard , " " Sir Joshua Reynolds , " " Rights of Man , " " Noisy Politicians , " all addi- tional . - JUNIUS . This author had rather more than his share before : I there- fore ...
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... MILTON , JOHN MINSTRELSY , ENGLISH • SURREY , EARL OF 179 SWIFT , JONATHAN 87 TALBOT , CATHERINE 282 TAYLOR , JEREMY 489 TEMPLE , WILLIAM 239 THOMSON , JAMES 109 TICKELL , THOMAS 532 TILLOTSON , JOHN 47 TOLLET , ELIZABETH 236 TYNDALE ...
... MILTON , JOHN MINSTRELSY , ENGLISH • SURREY , EARL OF 179 SWIFT , JONATHAN 87 TALBOT , CATHERINE 282 TAYLOR , JEREMY 489 TEMPLE , WILLIAM 239 THOMSON , JAMES 109 TICKELL , THOMAS 532 TILLOTSON , JOHN 47 TOLLET , ELIZABETH 236 TYNDALE ...
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... Milton , ( note ) The New and the Old Religion con- trasted JOHN HEYWOOD The Drama Miracle Plays Moral Plays Writers of Elizabeth's Reign , ( note ) .. 70 Interludes .. 8313 3 355 35 588111 88336 83 8 RRRRR 53 53 54 55 56 57 57 58 58 58 ...
... Milton , ( note ) The New and the Old Religion con- trasted JOHN HEYWOOD The Drama Miracle Plays Moral Plays Writers of Elizabeth's Reign , ( note ) .. 70 Interludes .. 8313 3 355 35 588111 88336 83 8 RRRRR 53 53 54 55 56 57 57 58 58 58 ...
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Page 638 - Two things have I required of thee ; deny me them not before I die. Remove far from me vanity and lies ; give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me : lest I be full and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord ? or lest I be poor and steal, and take the name- of my God in vain.
Page 596 - THE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds : Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient...
Page 352 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Page 752 - I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse, that bore thee, slow, away, And turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ? — It was. — Where thou art gone, Adieus and farewells are a sound unknown. May I but meet thee on that peaceful shore, The parting word shall pass my lips no more ! Thy maidens, grieved themselves at my concern, Oft gave me promise of thy quick return.
Page 161 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Page 243 - Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream: 55 Ay me, I fondly dream! Had ye been there: for what could that have done?
Page 597 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Page 649 - Is not a patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
Page 137 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forc'd me Out of thy honest truth to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes : and thus far hear me, Cromwell $ And,— when I am forgotten, as I shall be ; And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, — say, I taught thee...
Page 394 - When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.