The Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire;: Being Lives of the Most Distinguished Persons that Have Been Born In, Or Connected With, Those ProvincesWhittaker and Company; Simpkin, Marshall, and Company; John Cross, Leeds; Bancks and Company Manchester; Grapel, Liverpool., 1836 - 732 Seiten |
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... poet had not yet lost all respect for the Monarch : - Charles , our great soul , this only understands , He our affections both , and wills commands . It must be remembered that Charles had hitherto shewn many good dispositions , and in ...
... poet had not yet lost all respect for the Monarch : - Charles , our great soul , this only understands , He our affections both , and wills commands . It must be remembered that Charles had hitherto shewn many good dispositions , and in ...
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... poets and players of late have practised in their divisions ; and lastly , because both their talents do peculiarly lie in exposing and personating the Nonconformists . " ( Here , by the way , Andrew identifies Mr. Bayes with Dryden ...
... poets and players of late have practised in their divisions ; and lastly , because both their talents do peculiarly lie in exposing and personating the Nonconformists . " ( Here , by the way , Andrew identifies Mr. Bayes with Dryden ...
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... in terms calculated to draw fresh suspicion on the aged poet , in an age when many would have deemed it a service to the church , if not to God , to assassinate the author of Paradise Lost . Of his great ANDREW MARVELL . 51.
... in terms calculated to draw fresh suspicion on the aged poet , in an age when many would have deemed it a service to the church , if not to God , to assassinate the author of Paradise Lost . Of his great ANDREW MARVELL . 51.
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... poetic merits , we would gladly speak at large , but our limits allow not of immoderate quotation , and his works are too little known , and in general too inaccessible , to be referred to with confidence . It is disgraceful to English ...
... poetic merits , we would gladly speak at large , but our limits allow not of immoderate quotation , and his works are too little known , and in general too inaccessible , to be referred to with confidence . It is disgraceful to English ...
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... poetic fame of Milton , went nigh to extinguish that of Andrew Marvell . The classical Republicans were few and ... Poets , yet no one remembered that the author of the " Defensio populi Anglicani " had ever written Comus ; and Roscoe ...
... poetic fame of Milton , went nigh to extinguish that of Andrew Marvell . The classical Republicans were few and ... Poets , yet no one remembered that the author of the " Defensio populi Anglicani " had ever written Comus ; and Roscoe ...
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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.