The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author, Volume 10William Miller, 1808 - English literature |
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... character may view ; Were it as needful , faith had been so too . Oh , that our greatest fault were humble doubt , And that we were more just , though less devout ! What reverence should we pay thy sacred rhymes , Who , in these ...
... character may view ; Were it as needful , faith had been so too . Oh , that our greatest fault were humble doubt , And that we were more just , though less devout ! What reverence should we pay thy sacred rhymes , Who , in these ...
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... character of Charles so closely , as to discern the selfishness of his hollow cour- tesy , it is certain that the poet seems wonderfully little interested Duke , and others , also invoked Melpomene on this mournful occasion : but ...
... character of Charles so closely , as to discern the selfishness of his hollow cour- tesy , it is certain that the poet seems wonderfully little interested Duke , and others , also invoked Melpomene on this mournful occasion : but ...
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... character of Charles ; his wit , parts , and powers of conversation ; his gentle manners , and firmness of dispo- sition , which , like a well - wrought blade , kept , even in yielding , the native toughness of the steel , -are all ...
... character of Charles ; his wit , parts , and powers of conversation ; his gentle manners , and firmness of dispo- sition , which , like a well - wrought blade , kept , even in yielding , the native toughness of the steel , -are all ...
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... character , and supposed military talents , the poet prophesies a warlike and vic- torious reign : a sad instance how seldom the poetic and prophetic character , so often claimed , are united in the same individual ! for James , as is ...
... character , and supposed military talents , the poet prophesies a warlike and vic- torious reign : a sad instance how seldom the poetic and prophetic character , so often claimed , are united in the same individual ! for James , as is ...
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... character , when I state , that the most ingenious discourses I ever heard from the pul- pit , were upon this and other parts of David's conduct , in a series of lectures by the late Reverend Dr John Erskine , one of the mi- nisters of ...
... character , when I state , that the most ingenious discourses I ever heard from the pul- pit , were upon this and other parts of David's conduct , in a series of lectures by the late Reverend Dr John Erskine , one of the mi- nisters of ...
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Page 37 - Dim as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul: and as on high, Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here; so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere; So pale grows reason at religion's sight; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light.
Page 153 - The Body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten, in the Supper, only after an heavenly and spiritual manner. And the mean whereby the Body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper is Faith.
Page 15 - Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the catholic faith.
Page 242 - Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the LORD'S sake, whether it be to the King as supreme, or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of them that do well.
Page 434 - Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years : Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he. Who stands confirm'd in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through, and make a lucid interval ; But Shadwell's genuine night admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day.
Page 147 - And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them. Then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst and said, Peace be unto you.
Page 153 - Gainst form and order they their power employ, Nothing to build and all things to destroy. But far more numerous was the herd of such Who think too little and who talk too much. These out of mere instinct, they knew not why, Adored their fathers...
Page 440 - In thy felonious heart though venom lies, It does but touch thy Irish pen, and dies. Thy genius calls thee not to purchase fame In keen iambics, but mild anagram. Leave writing plays, and choose for thy command Some peaceful province in acrostic land. There thou may'st wings display and altars raise, And torture one poor word ten thousand ways. Or, if thou wouldst thy different talents suit, Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute.
Page 448 - Portugal I sung, Was but the prelude to that glorious day, When thou on silver Thames did'st cut thy way, With...
Page 147 - 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.