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... Book , We shall not need , or Hobbes , or Bolingbroke , Or any such , for smooth the path and clear , - Plain to the mind , harmonious to the ear ; 390 Vainly he'll search , who looks the volume through , For flowing numbers or ...
... Book , We shall not need , or Hobbes , or Bolingbroke , Or any such , for smooth the path and clear , - Plain to the mind , harmonious to the ear ; 390 Vainly he'll search , who looks the volume through , For flowing numbers or ...
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... Book . " Men domineer - age ails - and children die , " & c . " Better oft love , than never love a maid , Better than never trust , be oft betrayed . " " The lover manners , morals make the spouse . " " Who rules when courted , when ...
... Book . " Men domineer - age ails - and children die , " & c . " Better oft love , than never love a maid , Better than never trust , be oft betrayed . " " The lover manners , morals make the spouse . " " Who rules when courted , when ...
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... Book of Lucretius , executed with considerable spirit and accuracy . Many objections have been raised to an English version of Lucretius upon the ground of the impropriety of the 4th Book . Had the same reason been always considered ...
... Book of Lucretius , executed with considerable spirit and accuracy . Many objections have been raised to an English version of Lucretius upon the ground of the impropriety of the 4th Book . Had the same reason been always considered ...
Page 84
... books for children I am ready to bear testimony ; but I cannot see what good purpose is likely to be answered by the publication of her " Eighteen Hundred and Eleven . " - I do not , however , apprehend much danger from its predictions ...
... books for children I am ready to bear testimony ; but I cannot see what good purpose is likely to be answered by the publication of her " Eighteen Hundred and Eleven . " - I do not , however , apprehend much danger from its predictions ...
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... Books which could still compose , Why wouldst thou mix among the younger throng , Who move with lighter , livelier step along ? Then , when a purer motive bade thee write , 695 Content to " blend instruction with delight , " We prais'd ...
... Books which could still compose , Why wouldst thou mix among the younger throng , Who move with lighter , livelier step along ? Then , when a purer motive bade thee write , 695 Content to " blend instruction with delight , " We prais'd ...
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Page 15 - The next but swept a lone hill-side, Where heath and fern were waving wide...
Page 91 - From the lofty elder-tree ! Through the calm and frosty air Of this morning bright and fair, Eddying round and round they sink Softly, slowly : one might think, From the motions that are made Every little leaf conveyed Sylph or...
Page 91 - Oh ! pleasant, pleasant were the days, The time, when, in our childish plays, My sister Emmeline and I Together chased the butterfly ! A very hunter did I rush Upon the prey : — with leaps and springs I followed on from brake to bush ; But she, God love her ! feared to brush The dust from off its wings.
Page 103 - From the pale willow snatch'd the treasure, And swept it with a kindred measure, Till Avon's swans, while rung the grove With Montfort's hate and Basil's love, Awakening at the inspired strain, Deem'd their own Shakspeare lived again.
Page 57 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
Page 16 - The falcon, from her cairn on high, Cast on the rout a wondering eye, Till far beyond her piercing ken The hurricane had swept the glen.
Page 2 - On ne fut plus ni fat ni sot impunément ; Et malheur à tout nom qui, propre à la censure, Put entrer dans un vers sans rompre la mesure ! Perse, en ses vers obscurs , mais serrés et pressans, Affecta d'enfermer moins de mots que de sens.
Page 50 - 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 45 - I'd like to have left out his poetry, Forgot by all almost as well as me. Sometimes he has some humour, never wit. And if it rarely, very rarely hit, 'Tis under...
Page 91 - ORIEVED for Buonaparte, with a vain And an unthinking grief ! The tenderest mood Of that Man's mind — what can it be ? what food Fed his first hopes? what knowledge could he gain? 'Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood.