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... success . He showed the necessity of teach- ing the rules of grammar by means of numerous exercises ; and for more advanced pupils , he urged the importance , not only of making translations , on paper , of the parti- cular author ...
... success . He showed the necessity of teach- ing the rules of grammar by means of numerous exercises ; and for more advanced pupils , he urged the importance , not only of making translations , on paper , of the parti- cular author ...
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... success ; in 1577 , he became a fellow of his college , and two years later was appointed Hebrew lecturer to the university . After three years residence as fellow he took orders , and soon was appointed to preach at St. Paul's Cross ...
... success ; in 1577 , he became a fellow of his college , and two years later was appointed Hebrew lecturer to the university . After three years residence as fellow he took orders , and soon was appointed to preach at St. Paul's Cross ...
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... he was sent to Trinity College , Cambridge , where he studied with diligence and success ; but he left at the age of sixteen without taking a degree . As he was too young to enter upon a profession , he was sent LORD BACON . 39.
... he was sent to Trinity College , Cambridge , where he studied with diligence and success ; but he left at the age of sixteen without taking a degree . As he was too young to enter upon a profession , he was sent LORD BACON . 39.
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... successful contemporaries . Marston and Dekker , two of his brother dramatists , were foremost in their assaults upon ... success , and won the approbation of Queen Elizabeth . Cynthia's Revels , in which the poet ridicules the fantastic ...
... successful contemporaries . Marston and Dekker , two of his brother dramatists , were foremost in their assaults upon ... success , and won the approbation of Queen Elizabeth . Cynthia's Revels , in which the poet ridicules the fantastic ...
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... success , to raise a subscription in order that he might be interred in Westminster Abbey , buried him at his own cost , in the churchyard at Covent Garden . He was buried at the west end , on the south side , under the wall of St ...
... success , to raise a subscription in order that he might be interred in Westminster Abbey , buried him at his own cost , in the churchyard at Covent Garden . He was buried at the west end , on the south side , under the wall of St ...
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Página 36 - And, father cardinal, I have heard you say That we shall see and know our friends in heaven: If that be true, I shall see my boy again; For since the birth of Cain, the first male child, To him that did but yesterday suspire, There was not such a gracious creature born.
Página 37 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me ; Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief.
Página 129 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Página 205 - Wordsworth on the other hand, |was to propose to himself as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us; an inexhaustible treasure, but for which, in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes, yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor...
Página 113 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and, as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was...
Página 209 - Several years ago, when the Author retired to his native Mountains, with the hope of being enabled to construct a literary Work that might live, it was a reasonable thing that he should take a review of his own Mind, and examine how far Nature and Education had qualified him for such employment. As subsidiary to this preparation, he undertook to record, in Verse, the origin and progress of his own powers, as far as he was acquainted with them.
Página 127 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Página 35 - I am as sorry as if the original fault had been my fault, because myself have seen his demeanour no less civil than he excellent in the quality he professes: besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing, that approves his art.
Página 205 - ... modifying colours of the imagination. The sudden charm which accidents of light and shade, which moonlight or sunset diffused over a known and familiar landscape, appeared to represent the practicability of combining both.
Página 154 - I will be wise, And just, and free, and mild, if in me lies Such power, for I grow weary to behold The selfish and the strong still tyrannize Without reproach or check.