Lives of Sacred Poets, Volumen2J.W. Parker, 1838 - 363 páginas |
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... virtues . Under the watchful care of such parents , the talents of their gifted child were rapidly developed . His first preceptor was Thomas Young , a puritan minister of great learning and probity ; to whom he always manifested a warm ...
... virtues . Under the watchful care of such parents , the talents of their gifted child were rapidly developed . His first preceptor was Thomas Young , a puritan minister of great learning and probity ; to whom he always manifested a warm ...
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... frivolities of an intricate sophistry could not fail to displease one who looked upon moral and religious virtue as the great objects of all learning . That his contempt was openly avowed we cannot doubt , or that JOHN MILTON . 5.
... frivolities of an intricate sophistry could not fail to displease one who looked upon moral and religious virtue as the great objects of all learning . That his contempt was openly avowed we cannot doubt , or that JOHN MILTON . 5.
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... virtues and liberality of this learned ecclesiastic Milton has recorded . He was greeted also in a few Latin verses by Salsilli and Selvaggi , and into the poem which he addressed to the former during his sickness , he poured the purest ...
... virtues and liberality of this learned ecclesiastic Milton has recorded . He was greeted also in a few Latin verses by Salsilli and Selvaggi , and into the poem which he addressed to the former during his sickness , he poured the purest ...
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... virtue unblemished , and his love of the noble and the good strengthened and confirmed . Among a people with whom severity of manners was unknown , he conducted himself as became the future Homer of his country ; ever remember- ing , as ...
... virtue unblemished , and his love of the noble and the good strengthened and confirmed . Among a people with whom severity of manners was unknown , he conducted himself as became the future Homer of his country ; ever remember- ing , as ...
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... virtue amiable or grave ; whatsoever hath passion or admi → ration of that which is called fortune from without ; or the wily subtleties and refluxes of man's thoughts from within , all these things , with a solid and treatable smooth ...
... virtue amiable or grave ; whatsoever hath passion or admi → ration of that which is called fortune from without ; or the wily subtleties and refluxes of man's thoughts from within , all these things , with a solid and treatable smooth ...
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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...