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This , as “ a continued Allegory , or darke conceit , " must have its general intention clearly set forth : it is “ to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline . " Such a moral , the poet goes on , should be ...
This , as “ a continued Allegory , or darke conceit , " must have its general intention clearly set forth : it is “ to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline . " Such a moral , the poet goes on , should be ...
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Page 42 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
Page 396 - Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is : What if my leaves are falling like its own ! The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce, My spirit ! Be thou me, impetuous one...
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Page 449 - Homer were reading of my own election, but my mother forced me, by steady daily toil, to learn long chapters of the Bible by heart, as well as to read it every syllable through, aloud, hard names and all, from Genesis to the Apocalypse, about once a year ; and to that discipline — patient, accurate, and resolute — I owe not only a knowledge of the book', which I find occasionally serviceable, but much of my general power of taking pains, and the best part of my taste in literature.
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Page 74 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
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| Title | Lives of Great English Writers from Chaucer to Browning |
| Authors | Walter Swain Hinchman, Francis Barton Gummere |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin, 1908 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 2 Sep 2006 |
| Length | 569 pages |
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