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... things they once knew more familiarly than now , of books they once had by 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 ...
... things they once knew more familiarly than now , of books they once had by 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 ...
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... most unsuitably lodged in ill - living and scanda- lous mortals . Though few things , even in what is called Literature , are more disgust- ing than to hear small critics , who earn their bite and sup by acting as the self - MILTON.
... most unsuitably lodged in ill - living and scanda- lous mortals . Though few things , even in what is called Literature , are more disgust- ing than to hear small critics , who earn their bite and sup by acting as the self - MILTON.
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... things beautiful and cultured , the author of the glancing , trip- ping measure ' Haste thee , nymph , and bring with thee Jest and youthful jollity ' - - was destined to take a part , so eager and so fierce , and for which he was to ...
... things beautiful and cultured , the author of the glancing , trip- ping measure ' Haste thee , nymph , and bring with thee Jest and youthful jollity ' - - was destined to take a part , so eager and so fierce , and for which he was to ...
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... a more beautiful springtide , though it was restless , as spring should be , with the promise of greater things and ' high midsummer pomps . ' These latter it was that were postponed almost too long . JOHN MILTON . 9.
... a more beautiful springtide , though it was restless , as spring should be , with the promise of greater things and ' high midsummer pomps . ' These latter it was that were postponed almost too long . JOHN MILTON . 9.
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... things good , wise , and just . His body must be spotless and without blemish , his life pure , his thoughts high , his studies intense . There was no drink- ing at the ' Mermaid ' for John Milton . His thoughts , like his joys , were ...
... things good , wise , and just . His body must be spotless and without blemish , his life pure , his thoughts high , his studies intense . There was no drink- ing at the ' Mermaid ' for John Milton . His thoughts , like his joys , were ...
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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.