| Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 376 pages
...refuse not to sustain this expectation from as many as are not loth to hazard so much credulity upon the best pledges that I can give them. Although it...legitimate model. Each author arrogated to himself the right of innovation, and their respective works may be considered as experiments how far their peculiar... | |
| John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pages
...fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark on a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." " We see him, however, under the oppression of all this cheerless and foreign matter, indulging in... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...with chearful 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, to come into the dim reflection of hollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain to... | |
| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...with chearful 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, to come into the dim reflection of hollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain to... | |
| John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright...in the quiet and still air of delightful studies, to come into the dim reflection of kollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain to... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 472 pages
...pledges that I can give them. Although it nothing content me to have disclosed thus much before-hand ; but that I trust hereby to make it manifest with what...in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." Mr. Warton, who has cited the last sentence of this very interesting passage, as a proof that Milton,... | |
| Charles Symmons - 1810 - 690 pages
...fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark on a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." i We see him however, under the oppression of all this cheerless and foreign matter, indulging in the... | |
| Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 524 pages
...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, to come into the dim reflexion of hollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain to... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 354 pages
...solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and if hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance...in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." So that of Spenser : " The noble heart that harbours virtuous thought, And is with child of glorious... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 pages
...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." So that of Spenser: " The noble heart that harbours virtuous thought, And is with child of glorious... | |
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