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... divine Matters On the Death of Mr. Crashaw ANACREONTIQUES ; 65 67 69 OR , SOME COPIES OF VERSES , TRANSLATED PARAPHRASTI . CALLY OUT OF ANACREON . 1. Love .................. .......... 2. Drinking 3. Beauty 4. The Duel ...
... divine Matters On the Death of Mr. Crashaw ANACREONTIQUES ; 65 67 69 OR , SOME COPIES OF VERSES , TRANSLATED PARAPHRASTI . CALLY OUT OF ANACREON . 1. Love .................. .......... 2. Drinking 3. Beauty 4. The Duel ...
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... divine , The very shade they cast did other lights outshine . On Anacreon continuing a lover in his old age : Love was with thy life entwin'd , Close as heat with fire is join'd , A powerful brand prescrib'd the date Of thine , like ...
... divine , The very shade they cast did other lights outshine . On Anacreon continuing a lover in his old age : Love was with thy life entwin'd , Close as heat with fire is join'd , A powerful brand prescrib'd the date Of thine , like ...
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... divine , So numberless the stars that to our eye It makes all but one galaxy : Yet Reason must assist too ; for in seas So vast and dangerous as these , Our course by stars above we cannot know Without the compass too below . After this ...
... divine , So numberless the stars that to our eye It makes all but one galaxy : Yet Reason must assist too ; for in seas So vast and dangerous as these , Our course by stars above we cannot know Without the compass too below . After this ...
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... Divine Power are above the power of human genius to dignify . The miracle of Creation , however it may teem with images , is best described with little diffusion of language : He spake the word , and they were made . We are told that ...
... Divine Power are above the power of human genius to dignify . The miracle of Creation , however it may teem with images , is best described with little diffusion of language : He spake the word , and they were made . We are told that ...
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... divine inspiration of every part of the writings composing the canon of scrip- ture , whether historical , preceptive , or prophetic ; -a notion which few men of learning and liberal inquiry can now be supposed to hold . That all ...
... divine inspiration of every part of the writings composing the canon of scrip- ture , whether historical , preceptive , or prophetic ; -a notion which few men of learning and liberal inquiry can now be supposed to hold . That all ...
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ABRAHAM COWLEY Æneid Anacreon antiperistasis appear battle of Newbury beauteous beauty BISHOP OF WORCESTER blest breast bright conceits Cowley Cowley's Davideis death delight didst divine Donne doth e'er earth ev'n fair fame fancy fantastick fate flame gentle gold Gondibert grow hand happy hast heart heaven honour images join'd KATHARINE PHILIPS kind king labour learned less light lines live Lord lord Falkland lover metaphysical poets methinks mighty mihi mind mistress Muse nature ne'er never night noble NORTHERN EXPEDITION numbers o'er once Orinda painted Pharsalia Pindar poem poesy poet poetical poetry Pope praise rage reader sacred Sappho scarce shew shine sometimes soul spirit Sprat stars sure thee thine things thou dost thought truth verse Virgil virtue Whilst wine wise words write
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Página 167 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Página xxxi - What they wanted, however, of the sublime, they endeavoured to supply by hyperbole - their amplification had no limits - they left not only reason but fancy behind them, and produced combinations of confused magnificence that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined.
Página lxxxix - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Página 82 - Phoebus loves, and does inspire Phoebus is himself thy sire. To thee, of all things upon earth, Life is no longer than thy mirth. Happy insect! happy thou, Dost neither age nor winter know; But when thou'st drunk, and danced, and sung Thy fill, the flowery leaves among, (Voluptuous and wise withal, Epicurean animal!) Sated with thy summer feast, Thou retir'st to endless rest.
Página 61 - If I should tell the politic arts To take and keep men's hearts ; The letters, embassies, and spies, The frowns, and smiles, and flatteries, The quarrels, tears, and perjuries (Numberless, nameless, mysteries...
Página lxxxviii - Some that have deeper digg'd love's mine than I, Say, where his centric happiness doth lie: I have lov'd, and got, and told; But should I love, get, tell, till I were old; I should not find that hidden mystery; Oh, 'tis imposture all! And as no chymic yet th...
Página xxxix - On a round ball A workman that hath copies by, can lay An Europe, Afric, and an Asia, And quickly make that, which was nothing, all, So doth each tear, Which thee doth wear, A globe, yea world by that impression grow, Till thy tears mixt with mine do overflow This world, by waters sent from thee, my heaven dissolved so.
Página 27 - WHAT shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own...
Página xxx - Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic ; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness.
Página 166 - And bade to form her infant mind. Stern, rugged nurse ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year she bore ; What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know, And from her own she learn'd to melt at others...