The universal anthology, a collection of the best literature, with biographical and explanatory notes, ed. by R. Garnett, L. Vallée, A. Brandl. Imperial ed, Volume 14Richard Garnett 1899 |
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... learned , from whom to the common people whatever is heretical or dissolute may quickly be con- veyed ; and that evil manners are as perfectly learned without books a thousand other ways which cannot be stopped , and evil doctrine not ...
... learned , from whom to the common people whatever is heretical or dissolute may quickly be con- veyed ; and that evil manners are as perfectly learned without books a thousand other ways which cannot be stopped , and evil doctrine not ...
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... learned , and judicious ; there may be else no mean mistakes in the censure of what is passable or not , which is also no mean injury . If he be of such worth as behooves him , there cannot be a more tedi- ous and unpleasing journey ...
... learned , and judicious ; there may be else no mean mistakes in the censure of what is passable or not , which is also no mean injury . If he be of such worth as behooves him , there cannot be a more tedi- ous and unpleasing journey ...
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... learned men . It was the complaint and lamentation of prelates upon every least breath of a motion to remove pluralities and distribute more equally Church revenues , that then all learning would be for- ever dashed and discouraged ...
... learned men . It was the complaint and lamentation of prelates upon every least breath of a motion to remove pluralities and distribute more equally Church revenues , that then all learning would be for- ever dashed and discouraged ...
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... learned oration . Rhetoric is very good , or stark naught . There's no medium in rhetoric . If I am not fully persuaded , I laugh at the orator . Patience . Patience is the chiefest fruit of study . A man that strives to make himself a ...
... learned oration . Rhetoric is very good , or stark naught . There's no medium in rhetoric . If I am not fully persuaded , I laugh at the orator . Patience . Patience is the chiefest fruit of study . A man that strives to make himself a ...
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... learned . You teach a bird , by often whistling , to learn a tune , and a month after she will record it to herself . - Reason . In giving reasons , men commonly do with us as the woman does with her child ; when she goes to market ...
... learned . You teach a bird , by often whistling , to learn a tune , and a month after she will record it to herself . - Reason . In giving reasons , men commonly do with us as the woman does with her child ; when she goes to market ...
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Page 376 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, " this the seat That we must change for Heaven? — this mournful gloom For that celestial light ? Be...
Page 54 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth: and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Page 378 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Page 54 - For Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 249 - A honey tongue, a heart of gall Is fancy's Spring but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle and thy posies Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten, In folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw and ivy buds, Thy coral clasps and amber studs, All these in me no means can move To come to thee and be thy love.
Page 339 - Twas Presbyterian true blue, For he was of that stubborn crew Of Errant Saints, whom all men grant To be the true Church Militant...
Page 54 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian.
Page 377 - What matter where, if I be still the same And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater...
Page 255 - CYRIACK, this three years day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot ; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Page 274 - What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions,!