A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John Mandeville to William Cowper ; Consisting of Biographical Sketches of the Authors, Selections from Their Works, with Notes, Explanatory, Illustrative, and Directing to the Best Editions and to Various Criticisms... |
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... grace and gift of God , in pain of their old sins . " THE ALL - SUFFICIENCY OF THE SCRIPTURES . Christian men and women , old and young , shoulden study fast in the New Testament , and that no simple man of wit should be aferde ...
... grace and gift of God , in pain of their old sins . " THE ALL - SUFFICIENCY OF THE SCRIPTURES . Christian men and women , old and young , shoulden study fast in the New Testament , and that no simple man of wit should be aferde ...
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... grace . Embroider'd was he , as it were a mead All full of freshé flowrés white and red : Singing he was or floyting9 all the day ; He was as fresh as is the month of May : Short was his gown , with sleevés long and wide ; Well could he ...
... grace . Embroider'd was he , as it were a mead All full of freshé flowrés white and red : Singing he was or floyting9 all the day ; He was as fresh as is the month of May : Short was his gown , with sleevés long and wide ; Well could he ...
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... grace in her visage . She insists , however , that he shall comply with the terms of agreement , and therefore , sick at heart , and almost preferring death , 1 Low bat . 2 Shrivelled . • Hanging . In ragges as she was to - tore He set ...
... grace in her visage . She insists , however , that he shall comply with the terms of agreement , and therefore , sick at heart , and almost preferring death , 1 Low bat . 2 Shrivelled . • Hanging . In ragges as she was to - tore He set ...
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... grace . But now I shall , I think , be- cause of this chance , get leave this next week to come home and see you , and then shall we farther devise together upon all things , what order shall be best to take . And thus as heartily fare ...
... grace . But now I shall , I think , be- cause of this chance , get leave this next week to come home and see you , and then shall we farther devise together upon all things , what order shall be best to take . And thus as heartily fare ...
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... grace each one had found , What hope of speed , what dread of long delays . The wild forést , the clothed holts with green ; With reins avail'd , " and swift - ybreathed horse , With cry of hounds , and merry blasts between , Where we ...
... grace each one had found , What hope of speed , what dread of long delays . The wild forést , the clothed holts with green ; With reins avail'd , " and swift - ybreathed horse , With cry of hounds , and merry blasts between , Where we ...
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Page 597 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Page 213 - We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Page 598 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign' d, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?
Page 164 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Page 664 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 593 - Fair laughs the Morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes: Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm: Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That hush'd in grim repose expects his evening prey.
Page 247 - That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed...
Page 598 - Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th...
Page 394 - I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow; when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be...
Page 266 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...