The Works of the Right Reverend George Horne ...: To which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, Studies, and Writings, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1818 - Theology |
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... Gay in health and manly grace , Let not cloudless skies deceive you , Summer gives to autumn place . VIII . Venerable sires , grown hoary , Hither turn th ' unwilling eye , Think , amidst your falling glory , Autumn tells a winter nigh ...
... Gay in health and manly grace , Let not cloudless skies deceive you , Summer gives to autumn place . VIII . Venerable sires , grown hoary , Hither turn th ' unwilling eye , Think , amidst your falling glory , Autumn tells a winter nigh ...
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Page xxxviii - Or the unseen genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the Studious cloister's pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim, religious light.
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Page 315 - ... wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance.