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... Nature , in its varied fields of investigation , became not only a widely extended pursuit but a fashion . And the affectation of theological learning which characterized the scholars and the wits of the reign of Charles the First was ...
... Nature , in its varied fields of investigation , became not only a widely extended pursuit but a fashion . And the affectation of theological learning which characterized the scholars and the wits of the reign of Charles the First was ...
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... natural reserve from sharing freely in the life of the college , he seems , after a time , to have won the respect of many for whose friendship he did not ask , and to have gained a high reputation both for intellectual ability and ...
... natural reserve from sharing freely in the life of the college , he seems , after a time , to have won the respect of many for whose friendship he did not ask , and to have gained a high reputation both for intellectual ability and ...
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... Nature's full blessings should be well dispensed In unsuperflous even proportion , And she no whit incumber'd with her store ; And then the giver would be better thank'd , His praise due paid ; for swinish gluttony Ne'er looks to Heaven ...
... Nature's full blessings should be well dispensed In unsuperflous even proportion , And she no whit incumber'd with her store ; And then the giver would be better thank'd , His praise due paid ; for swinish gluttony Ne'er looks to Heaven ...
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... nature is mourning for him . Then follow the noble and familiar lines recalling the resolve of the earlier sonnet : ' Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade , And strictly meditate the ...
... nature is mourning for him . Then follow the noble and familiar lines recalling the resolve of the earlier sonnet : ' Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade , And strictly meditate the ...
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... nature and function , ' an idiot by breeding , and a solicitor by presumption , ' a basest and hungriest inditer , ' ' a boar in the vineyard , ' ' a snout in this pickle , ' ' an unswilled hogshead , ' ' a brazen ass ; ' nor are these ...
... nature and function , ' an idiot by breeding , and a solicitor by presumption , ' a basest and hungriest inditer , ' ' a boar in the vineyard , ' ' a snout in this pickle , ' ' an unswilled hogshead , ' ' a brazen ass ; ' nor are these ...
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Page 25 - There entertain him all the saints above, In solemn troops, and sweet societies, That sing, and singing, in their glory move And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes.
Page 50 - I trust hereby to make it manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with ^cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes ; from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Page 116 - My gazing soul would dwell an hour, And in those weaker glories spy Some shadows of eternity; Before I taught my tongue to wound My Conscience with a sinful sound, Or had the black art to dispense A several sin to every sense; But felt through all this fleshly dress Bright shoots of everlastingness.
Page 60 - Their dread commander ; he above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had not yet lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd, and th...
Page 25 - Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?
Page 21 - But now my task is smoothly done: I can fly, or I can run, Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon.
Page 69 - Phlegra with the heroic race were join'd That fought at Thebes and Ilium, on each side Mix'd with auxiliar gods ,• and what resounds In fable or romance of Uther's son Begirt with British and Armoric knights...
Page 63 - Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty, seem'd lords of all ; And worthy seem'd : for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom placed ; Whence true authority in men...
Page 133 - Rumour can ope the grave; Acquaintance I would have ; but when 't depends Not on the number, but the choice of friends. Books should, not business, entertain the light, And sleep, as undisturbed as death, the night.
Page 42 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.