Composition and StyleJohn Grant, 1908 - 320 sider |
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Side 33
... human life , have not often given any just occasion to envy in those who look up to them from a lower station . - Johnson's Life of Savage . He knows not what spleen , languor , or listlessness , are . - Blair's Sermons . The insolence ...
... human life , have not often given any just occasion to envy in those who look up to them from a lower station . - Johnson's Life of Savage . He knows not what spleen , languor , or listlessness , are . - Blair's Sermons . The insolence ...
Side 35
... human will . — Pope . -O thou my lips inspire Who touched Isaiah's hallowed lips with fire . - Pope . Nor thou , lord Arthur , shalt escape ; To thee I often call'd in vain , Against that assassin in crape ; Yet thou could'st tamely see ...
... human will . — Pope . -O thou my lips inspire Who touched Isaiah's hallowed lips with fire . - Pope . Nor thou , lord Arthur , shalt escape ; To thee I often call'd in vain , Against that assassin in crape ; Yet thou could'st tamely see ...
Side 39
... human misery . - Gibbon's Decline and Fall . When only two objects are compared together , it is improper to use the superlative degree . It is proper to say the more elegant of the two , the most elegant of the three . This obvious ...
... human misery . - Gibbon's Decline and Fall . When only two objects are compared together , it is improper to use the superlative degree . It is proper to say the more elegant of the two , the most elegant of the three . This obvious ...
Side 47
... human misery . 84. It were worth while contrasting its estimate of Mahometanism with that of Carlyle . 85. This paper should properly have appeared to - morrow . 86. That he was willing to have made his peace with Walpole is admitted by ...
... human misery . 84. It were worth while contrasting its estimate of Mahometanism with that of Carlyle . 85. This paper should properly have appeared to - morrow . 86. That he was willing to have made his peace with Walpole is admitted by ...
Side 48
... human mind , the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it . 100. No people ever was more readily assailed by the sword of conquest than those of this country ; nor had its chains , to appear- ance , more firmly ...
... human mind , the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it . 100. No people ever was more readily assailed by the sword of conquest than those of this country ; nor had its chains , to appear- ance , more firmly ...
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Side 35 - To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind ; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
Side 144 - Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th
Side 132 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Side 46 - Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due: For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer: Who would not sing for Lycidas?
Side 238 - ... islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds, falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments.
Side 162 - Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.
Side 130 - Departed spirits of the mighty dead! Ye that at Marathon and Leuctra bled! Friends of the world! restore your swords to man, Fight in his sacred cause, and lead the van! Yet for Sarmatia's tears of blood atone, And make her arm puissant as your own! Oh! once again to Freedom's cause return The patriot TELL — the BRUCE OF BANNOCKBURN!
Side 310 - I WAS born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull.
Side 162 - Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a 1 Judges ix.
Side 140 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.