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... POET OF PRAGUE . A BOHEMIAN LEGEND 106 THE CHURCH - HER STATE AND PROSPECTS .. .. 116 THE OLD YEAR'S TRACK 126 LONDON : G. W. NICKISSON , 215 REGENT STREET , ( Successor to the late JAMES FRASER ) . M.DCCC.XLIV . FOR TOWN AND COUNTRY ...
... POET OF PRAGUE . A BOHEMIAN LEGEND 106 THE CHURCH - HER STATE AND PROSPECTS .. .. 116 THE OLD YEAR'S TRACK 126 LONDON : G. W. NICKISSON , 215 REGENT STREET , ( Successor to the late JAMES FRASER ) . M.DCCC.XLIV . FOR TOWN AND COUNTRY ...
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... poet ; that Troy would raise its towers only in the description of Homer , and the Roman despotism lower only through the narrative of Tacitus . only knocked , but entered ; wandered over the hearts of their hearers ; traced the secret ...
... poet ; that Troy would raise its towers only in the description of Homer , and the Roman despotism lower only through the narrative of Tacitus . only knocked , but entered ; wandered over the hearts of their hearers ; traced the secret ...
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... poet . able to " convert the substance and riches of other poets to his own use ; to make choice of an excellent man above the rest , and so to follow him till he grow very he , and so like him , as the copy may be mistaken for the ...
... poet . able to " convert the substance and riches of other poets to his own use ; to make choice of an excellent man above the rest , and so to follow him till he grow very he , and so like him , as the copy may be mistaken for the ...
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... poet has by their manners . What we deny is , that there is any predo- minant and unyielding supremacy of the heroic over the natural disposi- tion . His chieftains are mighty in stature , but they sometimes stoop . What revelation of ...
... poet has by their manners . What we deny is , that there is any predo- minant and unyielding supremacy of the heroic over the natural disposi- tion . His chieftains are mighty in stature , but they sometimes stoop . What revelation of ...
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... poet living among the rocks of Chios . This evidence has all the authority that can be claimed by any witness not contemporary . The Homer of the Hymn to Apollo , here alluded to , is identified with the Homer of the Iliad . This fact ...
... poet living among the rocks of Chios . This evidence has all the authority that can be claimed by any witness not contemporary . The Homer of the Hymn to Apollo , here alluded to , is identified with the Homer of the Iliad . This fact ...
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Page 427 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Page 575 - So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful, That God alone was to be seen in heaven.
Page 127 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Page 48 - He, only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle; and the elements So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, This was a man!
Page 576 - Through the high wood echoing shrill; Sometime walking, not unseen, By hedge-row elms, on hillocks green, Right against the eastern gate Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight...
Page 347 - We yield thee hearty thanks, most merciful Father, that it hath pleased thee to regenerate this infant with thy Holy Spirit, to receive him for thine own child by adoption, and to incorporate him into thy Holy Church.
Page 284 - At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears, Hangs a Thrush that sings loud, it has sung for three years : Poor Susan has passed by the spot, and has heard In the silence of morning the song of the Bird.
Page 602 - His words came feebly, from a feeble chest, But each in solemn order followed each, With something of a lofty utterance drest — Choice word and measured phrase, above the reach Of ordinary men; a stately speech; Such as grave Livers do in Scotland use, Religious men, who give to God and man their dues.
Page 576 - Oh ! that the Desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair Spirit for my minister, That I might all forget the human race, And, hating no one, love but only her ! Ye Elements ! — in whose ennobling stir I feel myself exalted — Can ye not Accord me such a being ? Do I err In deeming such inhabit many a spot ? Though with them to converse can rarely be our lot.
Page 562 - And what, for this frail world, were all That mortals do or suffer, Did no responsive harp, no pen, Memorial tribute offer ? Yea, what were mighty Nature's self? Her features, could they win us, Unhelped by the poetic voice That hourly speaks within us...