The Retrospective Review, Volumen3Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1821 |
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... heaven . The chapter begins thus : " Praise be unto him who transported his servant by night from the sacred temple of Mecca to the farther temple of Jerusalem , the cir- cuit of which we have blessed , that we might show him some of ...
... heaven . The chapter begins thus : " Praise be unto him who transported his servant by night from the sacred temple of Mecca to the farther temple of Jerusalem , the cir- cuit of which we have blessed , that we might show him some of ...
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... heaven : " for my part ( as farre as I could in so short a time observe ) I dare in his first believe him . England not onely being ( as it is stiled ) a paradise for women , by reason of their privi- ledges ; but a paradise also of ...
... heaven : " for my part ( as farre as I could in so short a time observe ) I dare in his first believe him . England not onely being ( as it is stiled ) a paradise for women , by reason of their privi- ledges ; but a paradise also of ...
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... heaven , where legions of bright angels sing , Inspire life in my wit , my thoughts upraise , My voice ennoble , and forgive the thing , If fiction's light I mix with truth divine , And fill these lines with other praise than thine ...
... heaven , where legions of bright angels sing , Inspire life in my wit , my thoughts upraise , My voice ennoble , and forgive the thing , If fiction's light I mix with truth divine , And fill these lines with other praise than thine ...
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... heaven she neither can nor dare appear ; on earth she is hanged if the contract be proved ; in hell her adversary is judge , and it is woful to appeal from the devil to the devil . But for a while let us behold her in her supposed ...
... heaven she neither can nor dare appear ; on earth she is hanged if the contract be proved ; in hell her adversary is judge , and it is woful to appeal from the devil to the devil . But for a while let us behold her in her supposed ...
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... Heaven for others , and shut themselves out . " - P . 74 . " Reasons are the pillars of the fabric of a sermon , but similitudes are the windows which give the best light . " - P . 76 . " " Tis a shame when the Church itself is a ...
... Heaven for others , and shut themselves out . " - P . 74 . " Reasons are the pillars of the fabric of a sermon , but similitudes are the windows which give the best light . " - P . 76 . " " Tis a shame when the Church itself is a ...
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Página 217 - SWEET day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
Página 184 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
Página 221 - Let us (said he) pour on him all we can: Let the world's riches, which dispersed lie, Contract into a span. So strength first made a way; Then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honour, pleasure: When almost all was out, God made a stay, Perceiving that alone of all his treasure Rest in the bottom lay. For if I should...
Página 218 - Must all be veiled, while he that reads, divines, Catching the sense at two removes? Shepherds are honest people ; let them sing : Riddle who list, for me, and pull for Prime : I envy no man's nightingale or spring ; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say,
Página 142 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Página 218 - WHO says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse ? Is there in truth no beauty ? Is all good structure in a winding stair...
Página 58 - ... but only a rod and a ferula. Secondly, others who are able, use it only as a passage to better preferment, to patch the rents in their present fortune, till they can provide a. new one, and betake themselves to some more gainful calling. Thirdly, they are disheartened from doing their best with the miserable reward which in some places they receive, being masters to their children and slaves to their parents.
Página 219 - All may of Thee partake : Nothing can be so mean, Which with this tincture " for Thy sake " Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine : Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that and the action fine. This is the famous stone That turneth all to gold : For that which God doth touch and own Cannot for less be told.
Página 143 - But it is not good to stay too long in the theatre. Let us now pass on to the judicial place or palace of the mind, which we are to approach and view with more reverence and attention.
Página 146 - But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge...