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... meet with a man or woman who boasts of not being able to read poetry unless it is really good , I invariably meet with a most prosaic person , who has no love for poetry whatever , but will not be honest enough to say so . One ...
... meet with a man or woman who boasts of not being able to read poetry unless it is really good , I invariably meet with a most prosaic person , who has no love for poetry whatever , but will not be honest enough to say so . One ...
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... meet with a favourable reception , I shall , if God spares me long enough for the pleasing task , do my best to perfect the work . For I believe with ST . PIERRE's good Old Man in the touching tale of Paul and Virginia , that ...
... meet with a favourable reception , I shall , if God spares me long enough for the pleasing task , do my best to perfect the work . For I believe with ST . PIERRE's good Old Man in the touching tale of Paul and Virginia , that ...
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... meet with of any eminence in our literature , as that of a writer who composed in his mother tongue , was a native of this district , and was employed in tending cattle , or in other words , followed the humble occupation of a herdsman ...
... meet with of any eminence in our literature , as that of a writer who composed in his mother tongue , was a native of this district , and was employed in tending cattle , or in other words , followed the humble occupation of a herdsman ...
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... meet , As my disciple and my poete ; For in the flowers of his youth , In sondry wise , as he well couth , Of ditties and of songes glad , The which he for my sake made , The land fulfilled is over all ; Whereof to him in special ...
... meet , As my disciple and my poete ; For in the flowers of his youth , In sondry wise , as he well couth , Of ditties and of songes glad , The which he for my sake made , The land fulfilled is over all ; Whereof to him in special ...
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... meet him at Mechlin : for he must debate with me very urgent affairs , such as could not be despatched by writing . When we met , I perceived it was nothing else but to see if he could persuade me to take a benefice , and to continue in ...
... meet him at Mechlin : for he must debate with me very urgent affairs , such as could not be despatched by writing . When we met , I perceived it was nothing else but to see if he could persuade me to take a benefice , and to continue in ...
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Page 131 - Yet he was kind; or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault; The village all declared how much he knew; 'Twas certain he could write, and cipher too; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And even the story ran that he could gauge...
Page 56 - I held my tongue, and spake nothing : I kept silence, yea, even from good words; but it was pain and grief to me.
Page 257 - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy ; Or, in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! Hip.
Page 73 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 102 - Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: 3 And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
Page 16 - Give me leave To enjoy myself : that place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me A glorious court, where hourly I converse With the old sages and philosophers ; And sometimes, for variety, I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels ; Calling their victories, if unjustly got, Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy, Deface their ill-plac'd statues.
Page 257 - The Lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic. Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Page 84 - God made the world; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways (which I will not name for the honour I bear them) so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Page 379 - Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over.
Page 256 - These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers, and madmen, have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ; That is, the madman : the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt...