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... they were still boy and girl . At Bruce Castle School , first in partnership with his
father , but from 1868 as sole head master , Birkbeck Hill remained until 1877 . At
Tottenham all his seven children were born . The school continued to enjoy fair ...
... they were still boy and girl . At Bruce Castle School , first in partnership with his
father , but from 1868 as sole head master , Birkbeck Hill remained until 1877 . At
Tottenham all his seven children were born . The school continued to enjoy fair ...
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8 In 1636 , he was removed to Cambridge , where he continued his studies with
great intenseness ; for he is said to have written , while he was yet a young
student , the greater part of his Davideist , a work of which the materials could not
have ...
8 In 1636 , he was removed to Cambridge , where he continued his studies with
great intenseness ; for he is said to have written , while he was yet a young
student , the greater part of his Davideist , a work of which the materials could not
have ...
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... nor that it made him think himself secure , pew for at that dissolution of
government , which followed the death of Oliver , he returned into France , where
he resumed his former station , and staid till the Restoration ' . ' He continued , '
says his ...
... nor that it made him think himself secure , pew for at that dissolution of
government , which followed the death of Oliver , he returned into France , where
he resumed his former station , and staid till the Restoration ' . ' He continued , '
says his ...
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Baćon remarks that some falsehoods are continued by tradition , because they
supply commodious allusions ? ' It gave a piteous groan , and so it broke ; In vain
it something would have spoke : The love within too strong for ' t was , Like ...
Baćon remarks that some falsehoods are continued by tradition , because they
supply commodious allusions ? ' It gave a piteous groan , and so it broke ; In vain
it something would have spoke : The love within too strong for ' t was , Like ...
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Sometimes he indulges himself in a digression , always con - 164 ceived with his
natural exuberance , and commonly , even where it is not long , continued till it is
tedious : ' l ' th ' library a few choice authors stood ; Yet ' twas well stor ' d , for ...
Sometimes he indulges himself in a digression , always con - 164 ceived with his
natural exuberance , and commonly , even where it is not long , continued till it is
tedious : ' l ' th ' library a few choice authors stood ; Yet ' twas well stor ' d , for ...
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Página 163 - In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral ; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted ; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind.
Página 276 - ... bowers to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close. And keep the flame from wasting by repose. I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my...
Página 20 - If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just...
Página 78 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Página 100 - Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and Justice are virtues and excellencies of all times and of all places; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance.
Página 88 - This he steadily denies, and it was apparently not true ; but it seems plain, from his own verses to Diodati, that he had incurred
Página 292 - Of sentiments purely religious, it will be found that the most simple expression is the most sublime. Poetry loses its lustre and its power, because it is applied to the decoration of something more excellent than itself.
Página 136 - I have a particular reason," says he, " to remember ; for whereas I had the perusal of it " from the very beginning, for some years, as I " went from time to time to visit him, in parcels of " ten, twenty, or thirty verses at a time (which, " being written by whatever hand came next, might " possibly want correction as to the orthography
Página 440 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.