Lives of Sacred Poets, Volumen2J.W. Parker, 1838 - 363 páginas |
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... hope to write hereafter laudable things , ought himself to be a true poem ; that is , a composition and pattern of the best and honour- ablest things , not presuming to sing the high praises of heroic men or famous cities , unless he ...
... hope to write hereafter laudable things , ought himself to be a true poem ; that is , a composition and pattern of the best and honour- ablest things , not presuming to sing the high praises of heroic men or famous cities , unless he ...
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... hope to produce at a future season something worthy of immor- tality . This splendid passage I shall quote , and every reader will reflect with delight upon that enlightened wisdom which turned the contemplation of the poet from the ...
... hope to produce at a future season something worthy of immor- tality . This splendid passage I shall quote , and every reader will reflect with delight upon that enlightened wisdom which turned the contemplation of the poet from the ...
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... hope and hardest attempting ; whether that Epic form , whereof the two poems of Homer , and those other two of Virgil and Tasso , are a diffuse , and the book of Job a brief model ; or whe- ther the rules of Aristotle herein are ...
... hope and hardest attempting ; whether that Epic form , whereof the two poems of Homer , and those other two of Virgil and Tasso , are a diffuse , and the book of Job a brief model ; or whe- ther the rules of Aristotle herein are ...
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... hope of gleaning any new image , will find himself reduced to the alternative of expanding Milton's pictures , or resting content with the portraiture of minuter objects . Warton has quoted a passage from the introduction to Burton's ...
... hope of gleaning any new image , will find himself reduced to the alternative of expanding Milton's pictures , or resting content with the portraiture of minuter objects . Warton has quoted a passage from the introduction to Burton's ...
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... hope , that these things do , as it were , make me belong still more to the protection and mercy of the Supreme Father . There is , according to the apostle , a way through weakness to the greatest strength ; let me be the most weak ...
... hope , that these things do , as it were , make me belong still more to the protection and mercy of the Supreme Father . There is , according to the apostle , a way through weakness to the greatest strength ; let me be the most weak ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 234 - The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree ; And seem by Thy sweet bounty made For those who follow Thee.
Página 133 - Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green ; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between.
Página 132 - GIVE me the wings of faith, to rise Within the vail, and see The saints above — how great their joys, How bright their glories be ! 2 Once they were mourning here below, And wet their couch with tears ; They wrestled hard, as we do now, With sins, and doubts, and fears.
Página 108 - Direct, control, suggest this day All I design, or do, or say, That all my powers, with all their might, In Thy sole glory may unite ! Praise God, from whom all blessings flow!
Página 22 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model...
Página 20 - I was confirmed in this opinion that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.
Página 240 - E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream Thy flowing wounds supply, Redeeming love has been my theme, And shall be till I die.
Página 234 - There, if thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh, with what peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her God...
Página 250 - He loved the world that hated him : the tear That dropped upon his Bible was sincere : Assailed by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was, a blameless life ; And he that forged, and he that threw the dart, Had each a brother's interest in his heart.
Página 310 - No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half...