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... volumes of practical religion , which she induced her husband frequently to read with her . Bunyan now began to attend church regularly , but he still spent the Sunday afternoons among his godless com- panions . Standing one day beside ...
... volumes of practical religion , which she induced her husband frequently to read with her . Bunyan now began to attend church regularly , but he still spent the Sunday afternoons among his godless com- panions . Standing one day beside ...
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... attain an English style familiar but not coarse , and elegant but not ostenta- tious , must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison . " F SIR RICHARD STEELE . - 1671-1729 . SIR RICHARD STEELE JOSEPH ADDISON . 81.
... attain an English style familiar but not coarse , and elegant but not ostenta- tious , must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison . " F SIR RICHARD STEELE . - 1671-1729 . SIR RICHARD STEELE JOSEPH ADDISON . 81.
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... volumes . Swift , with whom Pope had now become acquainted , exerted himself ener- getically in obtaining subscriptions ... volume appeared each year until the work was complete . The concluding volumes , the fifth and sixth , did not ...
... volumes . Swift , with whom Pope had now become acquainted , exerted himself ener- getically in obtaining subscriptions ... volume appeared each year until the work was complete . The concluding volumes , the fifth and sixth , did not ...
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... , who was then in England , in publishing three volumes of Miscellanies , in which , among other things , he inserted the Memoirs of a Parish Clerke , in ridicule of Bishop Burnet's history , 102 EMINENT ENGLISH WRITERS .
... , who was then in England , in publishing three volumes of Miscellanies , in which , among other things , he inserted the Memoirs of a Parish Clerke , in ridicule of Bishop Burnet's history , 102 EMINENT ENGLISH WRITERS .
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... volume of his celebrated history . He spent five years at Lausanne , during which he paid great attention to study , and thus made up in some measure for the defects of his earlier education . He per- fected his acquaintance with Latin ...
... volume of his celebrated history . He spent five years at Lausanne , during which he paid great attention to study , and thus made up in some measure for the defects of his earlier education . He per- fected his acquaintance with Latin ...
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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.