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Hence the introduction of biographical , or human interest , into political history ,
indisposes both reader and writer for the hard passionless spirit of enquiry , so
essentially necessary to arrive at those grand principles which convert facts into ...
Hence the introduction of biographical , or human interest , into political history ,
indisposes both reader and writer for the hard passionless spirit of enquiry , so
essentially necessary to arrive at those grand principles which convert facts into ...
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... What though the Courtly Laurel now Adorn a true poetic brow , Immortal Bard ,
as well might ' st thou Write verses to a huge Dutch Frau , As big as all three
Graces , As well , nay better far by half , Make hymns to Jeroboam ' s calf , Or
write in ...
... What though the Courtly Laurel now Adorn a true poetic brow , Immortal Bard ,
as well might ' st thou Write verses to a huge Dutch Frau , As big as all three
Graces , As well , nay better far by half , Make hymns to Jeroboam ' s calf , Or
write in ...
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D ' Israeli has written a book upon the “ Quarrels of Authors , ” why does not he ,
or somebody else , write one about the “ Friendships of Authors ? ” Why is it , that
the little good that has been on earth has never found an historian ? Whether ...
D ' Israeli has written a book upon the “ Quarrels of Authors , ” why does not he ,
or somebody else , write one about the “ Friendships of Authors ? ” Why is it , that
the little good that has been on earth has never found an historian ? Whether ...
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As tour writing was not quite so indispensable in the seventeenth century as at
present , our account of Marvell ' s travels is necessarily scanty , the few
incidental notices that may occur in his miscellaneous works not being sufficient
to ...
As tour writing was not quite so indispensable in the seventeenth century as at
present , our account of Marvell ' s travels is necessarily scanty , the few
incidental notices that may occur in his miscellaneous works not being sufficient
to ...
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But in this thing , according as I write to you , you must be very reserved , and rest
much upon your prudence . ... to do , yet there is all civility betwixt us ; but it was
the Colonel ' s sense that we should be left each to his own discretion in writing .
But in this thing , according as I write to you , you must be very reserved , and rest
much upon your prudence . ... to do , yet there is all civility betwixt us ; but it was
the Colonel ' s sense that we should be left each to his own discretion in writing .
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Seite 269 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Seite 690 - I been depos'd, if you had reign'd! The father had descended for the son, For only you are lineal to the throne. Thus when the state one Edward did depose, A greater Edward in his room arose. But now, not I, but poetry is curs'd, For Tom the Second reigns like Tom the First. But let 'em not mistake my patron's part, Nor call his charity their own desert. Yet this I prophesy: thou shalt be seen (Tho...
Seite 62 - Though Justice against Fate complain, And plead the ancient rights in vain: But those do hold or break As men are strong or weak.
Seite 270 - The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : 10 Plain living and high thinking are no more...
Seite 59 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Seite 313 - I must do it, as it were in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened ; yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways, which I will not name for the honor I bear them, so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Seite 508 - Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven ! — Oh ! times, In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in Romance...
Seite 72 - When I wrote my Treatise about our System *, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose.
Seite 90 - What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Seite 262 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | The Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire: Being Lives of the Most Distinguished Persons that Have Been Born In, Or Connected With, Those Provinces ... |
| Autor/in | Hartley Coleridge |
| Verlag | Simpkin and Marshall, 1836 |
| Original von | Oxford University |
| Digitalisiert | 10. Mai 2007 |
| ISBN | 0827437714, 9780827437715 |
| Länge | 732 Seiten |
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