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... heart , and of authors they must ever love . The first two papers are here printed for the first time ; the others have been so treated before , and now reappear , pulled about a little , with the kind permission of the proper parties ...
... heart , and of authors they must ever love . The first two papers are here printed for the first time ; the others have been so treated before , and now reappear , pulled about a little , with the kind permission of the proper parties ...
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... hearts , still , not even genius can re- peal the Decalogue , or re - write the sen- tence of doom , ' He which is filthy , let him be filthy still . ' It is therefore permissible to wish that some of our great authors had been better ...
... hearts , still , not even genius can re- peal the Decalogue , or re - write the sen- tence of doom , ' He which is filthy , let him be filthy still . ' It is therefore permissible to wish that some of our great authors had been better ...
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... hearts , and was so of John Milton's . His friends and relatives saw but one difficulty in the way . John Milton the younger , though not at this time a Nonconformist , was a stern and unbending Protestant , and was as bitter an ...
... hearts , and was so of John Milton's . His friends and relatives saw but one difficulty in the way . John Milton the younger , though not at this time a Nonconformist , was a stern and unbending Protestant , and was as bitter an ...
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... hearts and have it on their lips ought to have prevented it being called tiresome by a senator of France . - But what is the matter with our great epic ? That nobody ever wished it longer is no real accusation . Nobody ever did wish an ...
... hearts and have it on their lips ought to have prevented it being called tiresome by a senator of France . - But what is the matter with our great epic ? That nobody ever wished it longer is no real accusation . Nobody ever did wish an ...
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... heart of grace and gets in a word edgeways . Mr. Bagehot has complained of Milton's angels . He says they are silly . But this is , I think , to in- tellectualise too much . There are some classes who are fairly exempted from all ...
... heart of grace and gets in a word edgeways . Mr. Bagehot has complained of Milton's angels . He says they are silly . But this is , I think , to in- tellectualise too much . There are some classes who are fairly exempted from all ...
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Page 106 - Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie : His daily Teachers had been Woods and Rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Page 50 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine: But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me...
Page 97 - Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth ! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.
Page 255 - I've been tossed like the driven foam; But now, proud world ! I'm going home. Good-bye to Flattery's fawning face; To Grandeur with his wise grimace; To upstart Wealth's averted eye; To supple Office, low and high ; To crowded halls, to court and street ; To frozen hearts and hasting feet ; To those who go, and those who come ; Good-bye, proud world ! I'm going home.
Page 101 - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
Page 132 - Wealth, my lad, was made to wander, Let it wander as it will; Call the jockey, call the pander, Bid them come and take their fill. When the bonny blade carouses, Pockets full, and spirits high — What are acres? What are houses? Only dirt, or wet or dry. Should the guardian friend or mother Tell the woes of wilful waste, Scorn their counsel, scorn their pother ;You can hang or drown at last ! On the 'Death of Mr.
Page 26 - And what if the author shall be one so copious of fancy as to have many things well worth the adding come into his mind after licensing, while the book is yet under the press, which not seldom happens to the best and diligentest writers ; and that perhaps a dozen times in one book...
Page 13 - With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced quire below, In service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes.
Page 9 - How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year ! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th.
Page 279 - Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own mother-university; Thebes did his rude unknowing youth engage; He chooses Athens in his riper age.