A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John Mandeville to William Cowper ... |
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... at ease , will be dejected , so a resolute virtue in the deepest distress is most impregnable . EDMUND SPENSER . 1553-1599 . Nor shall my verse that 92 [ ELIZABETH , SOUTHWELL . Queen Mab and the Fairies Life and Death weighed Mercy.
... at ease , will be dejected , so a resolute virtue in the deepest distress is most impregnable . EDMUND SPENSER . 1553-1599 . Nor shall my verse that 92 [ ELIZABETH , SOUTHWELL . Queen Mab and the Fairies Life and Death weighed Mercy.
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... virtue which I write of in that book . " Of the twelve books he makes or intended to make twelve knights the patrons , each of twelve several virtues . The first , the knight of the Red Cross , expressing Holiness : the second , Sir ...
... virtue which I write of in that book . " Of the twelve books he makes or intended to make twelve knights the patrons , each of twelve several virtues . The first , the knight of the Red Cross , expressing Holiness : the second , Sir ...
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... virtue , are worthy to be had in great respect . But these Irish bards are for the most part of another mind , and so far from instructing young men in moral discipline , that they themselves do more deserve to be sharply disciplined ...
... virtue , are worthy to be had in great respect . But these Irish bards are for the most part of another mind , and so far from instructing young men in moral discipline , that they themselves do more deserve to be sharply disciplined ...
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... virtue fortify ; They are most firmly good that best know why . Woman's behavior is a surer bar Than is their no ; that fairly doth deny Without denying ; thereby kept they are Safe ev'n from hope - in part to blame is she , Which hath ...
... virtue fortify ; They are most firmly good that best know why . Woman's behavior is a surer bar Than is their no ; that fairly doth deny Without denying ; thereby kept they are Safe ev'n from hope - in part to blame is she , Which hath ...
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... virtue on its outward parts . How many cowards , whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand , wear yet upon ... virtues , beauties , livings , friends 12 1603-1625 . ] 133 SHAKSPEARE .
... virtue on its outward parts . How many cowards , whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand , wear yet upon ... virtues , beauties , livings , friends 12 1603-1625 . ] 133 SHAKSPEARE .
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Page 638 - Two things have I required of thee ; deny me them not before I die. Remove far from me vanity and lies ; give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me : lest I be full and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord ? or lest I be poor and steal, and take the name- of my God in vain.
Page 596 - THE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds : Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient...
Page 352 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Page 752 - I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse, that bore thee, slow, away, And turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ? — It was. — Where thou art gone, Adieus and farewells are a sound unknown. May I but meet thee on that peaceful shore, The parting word shall pass my lips no more ! Thy maidens, grieved themselves at my concern, Oft gave me promise of thy quick return.
Page 161 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Page 243 - Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream: 55 Ay me, I fondly dream! Had ye been there: for what could that have done?
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 649 - Is not a patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
Page 137 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forc'd me Out of thy honest truth to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes : and thus far hear me, Cromwell $ And,— when I am forgotten, as I shall be ; And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, — say, I taught thee...
Page 394 - 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.