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... youth made himself an accomplished scholar , and had read widely . He is an excellent prose - writer , and he did much during forty years of writing , in poetry and in prose , to settle and improve the English language . Of poetical ...
... youth made himself an accomplished scholar , and had read widely . He is an excellent prose - writer , and he did much during forty years of writing , in poetry and in prose , to settle and improve the English language . Of poetical ...
Page xviii
... youth and laid in at school a large stock of classical knowledge . Late in life , more than forty years after he ... youths still at Westminster , from many who had left , and from others : Denham , Herrick , and Marvel , all three ...
... youth and laid in at school a large stock of classical knowledge . Late in life , more than forty years after he ... youths still at Westminster , from many who had left , and from others : Denham , Herrick , and Marvel , all three ...
Page xix
... youth of eighteen , saturated with Latin and Greek , and set on imitating the metaphysical conceits of Donne and Cowley , who were then in fashion and had impressed his young intellect . Not very much more is known of Dryden at ...
... youth of eighteen , saturated with Latin and Greek , and set on imitating the metaphysical conceits of Donne and Cowley , who were then in fashion and had impressed his young intellect . Not very much more is known of Dryden at ...
Page xx
... Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own mother - university . Thebes did his green unknowing youth engage ; He chooses Athens in his riper age . " For it was characteristic of Dryden to flatter when he XX MEMOIR OF DRYDEN .
... Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own mother - university . Thebes did his green unknowing youth engage ; He chooses Athens in his riper age . " For it was characteristic of Dryden to flatter when he XX MEMOIR OF DRYDEN .
Page xlv
... youth there , and was educated at Trinity College , Dublin . Malone therefore rejected the idea of Southerne's authorship . Still Southerne might , when a boy , have visited London ; but , on the other hand , why should he have ...
... youth there , and was educated at Trinity College , Dublin . Malone therefore rejected the idea of Southerne's authorship . Still Southerne might , when a boy , have visited London ; but , on the other hand , why should he have ...
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Page 107 - Blest madman who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy! Railing and praising were his usual themes, And both, to show his judgment, in extremes : So over violent or over civil That every man with him was God or Devil.
Page 234 - The Supper of the Lord is not only a sign of the love that Christians ought to have among themselves one to another, but rather is a sacrament of our redemption by Christ's death; Insomuch, that to such as rightly, worthily, and with faith receive the same, the bread which we break is a partaking of the body of Christ ; and likewise the cup of blessing is a partaking of the blood of Christ.
Page 376 - Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew. Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes, And glittering temples of their hostile gods. The princes applaud with a furious joy ; And the king seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy ; Thais led the way, To light him to his prey, And like another Helen, fired another Troy.
Page 375 - War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour, but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying; If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Page 226 - Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
Page 373 - In flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair...
Page 376 - Now strike the golden lyre again: A louder yet, and yet a louder strain ! Break his bands of sleep asunder And rouse him like a rattling peal of thunder. Hark, hark ! the horrid sound Has raised up his head : As awaked from the dead, And amazed he stares around. Revenge, revenge...
Page 501 - Prioress and the broad-speaking gap-toothed Wife of Bath. But enough of this : there is such a variety of game springing up before me, that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow.
Page 98 - Of listening crowds with jealousies and fears Of arbitrary counsels brought to light, And proves the King himself a Jebusite.
Page 375 - Changed his hand, and checked his pride. He chose a mournful Muse Soft pity to infuse : He sung Darius great and good, By too severe a fate Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen, Fallen...