Democritus in London: With the Mad Pranks and Comical Conceits of Motley and Robin Good-fellow, to which are Added Notes Festivous, EtcW. Pickering, 1852 - 312 Seiten |
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... learning , the strongest force of understanding , the most beautiful ornaments of eloquence in the service of Virtue and Religion can never sink into oblivion , however he may be at present too little regarded . " 6 6 Me , poor man ! my ...
... learning , the strongest force of understanding , the most beautiful ornaments of eloquence in the service of Virtue and Religion can never sink into oblivion , however he may be at present too little regarded . " 6 6 Me , poor man ! my ...
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... learning ? " once asked " Certainly I Mr. Wilberforce of an eminent prelate . do , " he answered , " but they can cheat me as to their piety , but they can't as to their learning . " 19 " This tottered Colt which once had high desires ...
... learning ? " once asked " Certainly I Mr. Wilberforce of an eminent prelate . do , " he answered , " but they can cheat me as to their piety , but they can't as to their learning . " 19 " This tottered Colt which once had high desires ...
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... learning's page august With hand most reverent sweep the dust ! And from Academic bowers Cast the weeds , but spare the flowers.68 From the courts above a visitor , ( Mr. Motley the inquisitor ! ) 65 The Athenians were a politic as well ...
... learning's page august With hand most reverent sweep the dust ! And from Academic bowers Cast the weeds , but spare the flowers.68 From the courts above a visitor , ( Mr. Motley the inquisitor ! ) 65 The Athenians were a politic as well ...
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... learning forbade him to repeat the common cant about ignorant and sloth- ful monks , while his enlarged humanity could walk by the light of his own faith without proscribing that of his ancestors . The monks introduced in Romeo and ...
... learning forbade him to repeat the common cant about ignorant and sloth- ful monks , while his enlarged humanity could walk by the light of his own faith without proscribing that of his ancestors . The monks introduced in Romeo and ...
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... Fathers , Church Story , School- men , " ( says Selden ) " all may pass for Popish Books , and if you take away them , what learning will you leave ? F What are they ? ask the halt , the blind DEMOCRITUS IN LONDON . 65.
... Fathers , Church Story , School- men , " ( says Selden ) " all may pass for Popish Books , and if you take away them , what learning will you leave ? F What are they ? ask the halt , the blind DEMOCRITUS IN LONDON . 65.
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Seite 96 - So fades a summer cloud away, So sinks the gale when storms are o'er : So gently shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore.
Seite 9 - Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten, In folly ripe, in reason rotten.
Seite 226 - Sir, this is a busy day with us, we cannot hear you ; it is Robin Hood's day. The parish are gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood : I pray you let them not.
Seite 64 - I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history ; And, questionless, here in this open court, Which now lies naked to the injuries Of stormy weather, some men lie...
Seite 223 - London, to thee I do present the merry month of May; Let each true subject be content to hear me what I say: For from the top of conduit-head, as plainly may appear, I will both tell my name to you, and wherefore I came here. My name is Ralph, by due descent though not ignoble I, Yet far inferior to the flock of gracious grocery...
Seite 20 - What judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes ; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject ; to run them into verse, or to give them the other harmony of prose.
Seite 278 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Seite 20 - I think myself as vigorous as ever in the faculties of my soul, excepting only my memory, which is not impaired to any great degree; and if I lose not more of it, I have no great reason to complain. What...
Seite 3 - Yes, Sir : there was another fine passage too, which he struck out : "When I was a young man, being anxious to distinguish myself, I was perpetually starting new propositions. But I soon gave this over ; for, I found that generally what was new was false.
Seite 11 - And his most holy life was such, that it begot such reverence to God, and to him, that they thought themselves the happier when they carried Mr. Herbert's blessing back with them to their labour.