Lives of Sacred Poets, Volumen2J.W. Parker, 1838 - 363 páginas |
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... 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 has in himself the experience and ...
... 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 has in himself the experience and ...
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... things worthy . But those frequent songs throughout the Law and Prophets beyond all these , not in their divine argument alone , but in the very critical art of composi- tion , may be easily made to appear over all the kinds of lyric ...
... things worthy . But those frequent songs throughout the Law and Prophets beyond all these , not in their divine argument alone , but in the very critical art of composi- tion , may be easily made to appear over all the kinds of lyric ...
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... things , with a solid and treatable smooth- ness to point out and describe . Teaching over the whole book of ... thing which I had to say , and those intentions which have lived with me ever since I could conceive myself anything worth ...
... things , with a solid and treatable smooth- ness to point out and describe . Teaching over the whole book of ... thing which I had to say , and those intentions which have lived with me ever since I could conceive myself anything worth ...
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... things on that side ; if I chanced to close my right eye , whatever was before me seemed diminished . In the last three years , as my remaining eye failed by degrees , some months before my sight was utterly gone , all things that I ...
... things on that side ; if I chanced to close my right eye , whatever was before me seemed diminished . In the last three years , as my remaining eye failed by degrees , some months before my sight was utterly gone , all things that I ...
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... things are there which I would not see ? How many which I can be debarred the sight of without repining ? How few left which I much desire to see ? But neither am I disheartened , that I am now become the companion of the blind , of the ...
... things are there which I would not see ? How many which I can be debarred the sight of without repining ? How few left which I much desire to see ? But neither am I disheartened , that I am now become the companion of the blind , of the ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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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...