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... present volume , it is hoped , however , will sufficiently connect with its title ; for it has some- thing on life and conduct , three papers on law , and a great deal about literature . The first of the following essays , originally ...
... present volume , it is hoped , however , will sufficiently connect with its title ; for it has some- thing on life and conduct , three papers on law , and a great deal about literature . The first of the following essays , originally ...
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... present purpose it will be sufficiently accurate to divide men's occupations into business , duty , and recrea- tion . Under the last of these divisions we may rank the subject of the present Lecture ; and , in so ranking Poetry as a ...
... present purpose it will be sufficiently accurate to divide men's occupations into business , duty , and recrea- tion . Under the last of these divisions we may rank the subject of the present Lecture ; and , in so ranking Poetry as a ...
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... present Lecture , if out of its many aspects we regard it in this point of view , will be found to differ or agree precisely as life in ancient times differed from that in modern times , or agreed with it ; differing , in fine , as ...
... present Lecture , if out of its many aspects we regard it in this point of view , will be found to differ or agree precisely as life in ancient times differed from that in modern times , or agreed with it ; differing , in fine , as ...
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... present , and turning to the secular , we may observe that our knowledge of Ancient Poetry is confined to that of Greece and Rome . Ancient poetry as picturing life may be summed in Homer . And it is a remarkable fact , that the circle ...
... present , and turning to the secular , we may observe that our knowledge of Ancient Poetry is confined to that of Greece and Rome . Ancient poetry as picturing life may be summed in Homer . And it is a remarkable fact , that the circle ...
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... present case , I perceive two . The first is that , which has dead- locked art in all countries in every department , viz . , ex- cessive admiration of the first master - piece in that art , and a consequent tendency to make that master ...
... present case , I perceive two . The first is that , which has dead- locked art in all countries in every department , viz . , ex- cessive admiration of the first master - piece in that art , and a consequent tendency to make that master ...
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Seite 33 - When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present 5 My true account, lest he returning chide; "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?
Seite 20 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown...
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Seite 221 - Preserving all the piety of George Herbert, they have less of his quaint and fantastic turns, with a much larger infusion of poetic feeling and expression.
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