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... taste for elegant reading in lower branches of society , than had ever before felt the genial influence of letters . The dissemina- tion of the Scriptures in the vulgar tongue , while it greatly affected the language and ideas of the ...
... taste for elegant reading in lower branches of society , than had ever before felt the genial influence of letters . The dissemina- tion of the Scriptures in the vulgar tongue , while it greatly affected the language and ideas of the ...
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... taste , and contain much that is totally aside from the purpose . To pursue the simile above quoted , the crops are not so clean as if they had been reared under systematic cultivation . On this account , the re- fined taste of the ...
... taste , and contain much that is totally aside from the purpose . To pursue the simile above quoted , the crops are not so clean as if they had been reared under systematic cultivation . On this account , the re- fined taste of the ...
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... taste , or digesting knowledge by the justness of their reasonings , but making vast and substantial additions to the materials upon which taste and reason must hereafter be employed , and enlarging to an incredible and unparalleled ...
... taste , or digesting knowledge by the justness of their reasonings , but making vast and substantial additions to the materials upon which taste and reason must hereafter be employed , and enlarging to an incredible and unparalleled ...
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... taste of Drayton is a mixture of the historical and the poetical ; and besides the Polyolbion , he wrote several poems , in which these two characteristics are very happily blended - such as the Barons ' Wars , and Eng- land's Heroical ...
... taste of Drayton is a mixture of the historical and the poetical ; and besides the Polyolbion , he wrote several poems , in which these two characteristics are very happily blended - such as the Barons ' Wars , and Eng- land's Heroical ...
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... taste into such extravagancies , both of idea and of language , as rendered all their better qualities nearly useless . They sometimes use natural language , and natural imagery and passion ; but it is only by chance . Their works more ...
... taste into such extravagancies , both of idea and of language , as rendered all their better qualities nearly useless . They sometimes use natural language , and natural imagery and passion ; but it is only by chance . Their works more ...
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Page 143 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Page 33 - You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attain'd his noon. Stay, stay Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Page 208 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean - roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy...
Page 28 - I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it ; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot If thinking on me then should make you woe. O, if, I say, you look upon this verse When I perhaps compounded am with clay, Do not so much as my poor name rehearse, But let your love even with my life decay, Lest the wise world should look into your moan And mock you with me after I am gone.
Page 28 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Page 79 - He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl, A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees ; He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination.
Page 51 - Of what is't fools make such vain keeping? Sin their conception, their birth weeping, Their life a general mist of error, Their death a hideous storm of terror. Strew your hair with powders sweet, Don clean linen, bathe your feet, And (the foul fiend more to check) A crucifix let bless your neck : 'Tis now full tide 'tween night and day ; End your groan, and come away.
Page 110 - The little engine on his fingers' ends; This just behind Belinda's neck he spread, As o'er the fragrant steams she bends her head. Swift to the lock a thousand sprites repair...
Page 111 - And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies. Not louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or when lapdogs breathe their last ; Or when rich China vessels, fall'n from high, In glitt'ring dust and painted fragments lie ! " Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine...
Page 53 - QUEEN and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess, excellently bright! Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose: Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess, excellently bright! Lay thy bow of pearl apart, And thy crystal shining quiver: Give unto the flying hart Space to breathe, how short soever; Thou that...