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... poets and heralds , who enchant them in savage manners , and sundry other such dregs of barbarism . We find another statute " That every subject having goods and chattels to the value of £ 10 , shall have an English bow , and a sheafe ...
... poets and heralds , who enchant them in savage manners , and sundry other such dregs of barbarism . We find another statute " That every subject having goods and chattels to the value of £ 10 , shall have an English bow , and a sheafe ...
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... poet ; his poem " Know thyself " is of a high order of merit ; his compositions of an historical kind are inimitable ; his law reports invalu- able ; his speech ( when chosen Speaker ) on the Origin of Parliaments was never excelled ...
... poet ; his poem " Know thyself " is of a high order of merit ; his compositions of an historical kind are inimitable ; his law reports invalu- able ; his speech ( when chosen Speaker ) on the Origin of Parliaments was never excelled ...
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... Poet - Learn- ing of the Church Clergy - Swift's Sermon on Patriotism - Public Spirit essential to the Prosperity of a Nation . JAMES II . - WILLIAM - ANNE . THE Parliament of James II . was an infamous assembly , because it had no ...
... Poet - Learn- ing of the Church Clergy - Swift's Sermon on Patriotism - Public Spirit essential to the Prosperity of a Nation . JAMES II . - WILLIAM - ANNE . THE Parliament of James II . was an infamous assembly , because it had no ...
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... the opportunity was favourable . Men's thoughts were occupied with their late deliverance . Indifferent poets composed songs in praise of William , when they should rather have asserted their country's rights , and 80 THE LIFE AND DEATH OF.
... the opportunity was favourable . Men's thoughts were occupied with their late deliverance . Indifferent poets composed songs in praise of William , when they should rather have asserted their country's rights , and 80 THE LIFE AND DEATH OF.
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... poet Parnell , a friend of Swift , and of Pope , and of all the wits of his age- a member of the Scribblers ' Club , mentioned in the memoirs of the literary men of fame , and whose life has been written by Dr. Johnson and by Goldsmith ...
... poet Parnell , a friend of Swift , and of Pope , and of all the wits of his age- a member of the Scribblers ' Club , mentioned in the memoirs of the literary men of fame , and whose life has been written by Dr. Johnson and by Goldsmith ...
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Page 297 - In every government, though terrors reign, Though tyrant kings, or tyrant laws restrain, How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Page 309 - Alone stood brave Horatius, But constant still in mind ; Thrice thirty thousand foes before, And the broad flood behind. " Down with him ! " cried false Sextus, With a smile on his pale face. "Now yield thee," cried Lars Porsena,
Page 286 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him.
Page 312 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place.
Page 275 - 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 290 - Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining as a Persian Tale.
Page 310 - No sound of joy or sorrow Was heard from either bank ; But friends and foes in dumb surprise, With parted lips and straining eyes, Stood gazing where he sank ; And when above the surges They saw his crest appear, All Rome sent forth a rapturous cry, And even the ranks of Tuscany Could scarce forbear to cheer.
Page 296 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e'en those ills, that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Page 287 - I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill '." My next meeting...
Page 310 - And now he feels the bottom ; Now on dry earth he stands ; Now round him throng the Fathers To press his gory hands ; And now with shouts and clapping, And noise of weeping loud, He enters through the River-gate, Borne by the joyous crowd.