Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in PoetryC. Dilly, 1790 - 1019 sider |
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... poets who are foremost in poetic fame ; but the ftudy of oratory has this advantage above that of poetry , that , in poetry , one must be an eminently good performer , or he is not fupportable ; -Mediocribus effe potis , Non homines ...
... poets who are foremost in poetic fame ; but the ftudy of oratory has this advantage above that of poetry , that , in poetry , one must be an eminently good performer , or he is not fupportable ; -Mediocribus effe potis , Non homines ...
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... Poets whofe Works have not 112 Great Men have utually appeared at the come down to us - 312 fame Time 54 - the Fall of Poetry among the Ro- mans 312 55 - Lucan 312 115 113 Four Ages marked out by the Learned 114 Reputation of the ...
... Poets whofe Works have not 112 Great Men have utually appeared at the come down to us - 312 fame Time 54 - the Fall of Poetry among the Ro- mans 312 55 - Lucan 312 115 113 Four Ages marked out by the Learned 114 Reputation of the ...
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... Poet 380 351 184 The Period 130 -- Cafimir , and other modern Ly- ric Poets 185 351 186 Authorities alledged 131 -- the different Kinds of Poetical Compofition in the Sacred Books ft . of the Didactic 351 132 Of the Elegiac and Paftoral ...
... Poet 380 351 184 The Period 130 -- Cafimir , and other modern Ly- ric Poets 185 351 186 Authorities alledged 131 -- the different Kinds of Poetical Compofition in the Sacred Books ft . of the Didactic 351 132 Of the Elegiac and Paftoral ...
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... poets . The perfons who travelled up this great path , were fuch whose thoughts were were bent upon doing eminent fervices to mankind , or 68 BOOK THE FIRST . Temperance in Pleasure recommended 42 86 Whatever violates Nature cannot ford ...
... poets . The perfons who travelled up this great path , were fuch whose thoughts were were bent upon doing eminent fervices to mankind , or 68 BOOK THE FIRST . Temperance in Pleasure recommended 42 86 Whatever violates Nature cannot ford ...
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... hope for . Most of the works of the Pagan poets were either direct hymns of their deities , or tended indirectly to the celebration of their refpective attributes and perfections . Thofe who are acquainted their 80 FIRST . BOOK THE.
... hope for . Most of the works of the Pagan poets were either direct hymns of their deities , or tended indirectly to the celebration of their refpective attributes and perfections . Thofe who are acquainted their 80 FIRST . BOOK THE.
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Side 279 - More especially, we pray for the good estate of the Catholic Church; that it may be so guided and governed by Thy good Spirit, that all who profess and call themselves Christians may be led into the way of truth, and hold the faith in unity of spirit, in the bond of peace, and in righteousness of life.
Side 251 - ... .which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places., (far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named not only in this world, but also in that which is to come...
Side 266 - PREVENT us, O Lord, in all our doings, with thy most gracious favour, and further us with thy continual help ; that in all our works begun, continued, and ended in thee, we may glorify thy holy Name, and finally by thy mercy obtain everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Side 282 - GRANT to us, Lord, we beseech thee, the spirit to think and do always such things as be rightful; that we, who cannot do any thing that is good without thee, may by thee be enabled to live according to thy will; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Side 437 - The objection arising from the impossibility of passing the first hour at Alexandria and the next at Rome supposes that, when the play opens, the spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Antony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine more.
Side 434 - Shakespeare engaged in dramatic poetry with the world open before him. The rules of the ancients were yet known to few; the public judgment was unformed; he had no example of such fame as might force him upon imitation, nor critics of such authority as might restrain his extravagance.
Side 282 - GOD, who as at this time didst teach the hearts of thy faithful people by the sending to them the light of thy Holy Spirit ; Grant us by the same Spirit to have a right judgment in all things, and evermore to rejoice in his holy comfort ; through the merits of Christ Jesus our Saviour, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the same Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen.
Side 1 - I drew near with that reverence which is due to a superior nature; and as my heart was entirely subdued by the captivating strains I had heard, I fell down at his feet and wept. The Genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and...
Side 285 - GRANT, O merciful God, that as thine holy Apostle Saint James, leaving his father and all that he had, without delay was obedient unto the calling of thy Son Jesus Christ, and followed him ; so we, forsaking all worldly and carnal affections, may be evermore ready to follow thy holy commandments, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Side 266 - Lord, our heavenly Father, Almighty and everlasting God, who hast safely brought us to the beginning of this day ; defend us in the same with thy mighty power, and grant that this day we fall into no sin, neither run into any kind of danger ; but that all our doings may be ordered by thy governance, to do always that is righteous in thy sight, through Jesus Christ our Lord.