A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John Mandeville to William Cowper ; Consisting of Biographical Sketches of the Authors, Selections from Their Works, with Notes, Explanatory, Illustrative, and Directing to the Best Editions and to Various Criticisms...E. C. and J. Biddle, 1859 - 762 páginas |
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... Knowledge- King James's Bible 119 Preservation of Knowledge .. Pleasure of Knowledge . Immortality of Literary Fame ....... 164 161 162 162 ..... 163 ... 164 Account of the same . 119 Influence of the Bible on the English JOHN DONNE 165 ...
... Knowledge- King James's Bible 119 Preservation of Knowledge .. Pleasure of Knowledge . Immortality of Literary Fame ....... 164 161 162 162 ..... 163 ... 164 Account of the same . 119 Influence of the Bible on the English JOHN DONNE 165 ...
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... Knowledge a Source of Delight 282 Practical Religion , ( note ) ... 325 ANDREW MARVELL ....... ... 282 Dedication to Charles II . Against Titles of Honor .. 325 326 Bacon on Knowledge , ( note ) ... ... ... · ... 282 Doleful Evils of ...
... Knowledge a Source of Delight 282 Practical Religion , ( note ) ... 325 ANDREW MARVELL ....... ... 282 Dedication to Charles II . Against Titles of Honor .. 325 326 Bacon on Knowledge , ( note ) ... ... ... · ... 282 Doleful Evils of ...
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... Knowledge to be accommodated to the 578 Purposes of Life- 656 Introduction . The Subject proposed Man's immortal Aspirations . Cause of our Pleasure in Beauty 579 Right Improvement of Time . 657 580 Duty of Forgiveness ... 659 582 ...
... Knowledge to be accommodated to the 578 Purposes of Life- 656 Introduction . The Subject proposed Man's immortal Aspirations . Cause of our Pleasure in Beauty 579 Right Improvement of Time . 657 580 Duty of Forgiveness ... 659 582 ...
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... Knowledge and Wisdom- 740 740 741 .. 741 The Post - Boy 742 718 ... 742 John Howard ...... 718 The Guilt of making Man Property 745 Sir Joshua Reynolds 719 To Mary ... 745 Speech to the Electors of Bristol . ... 720 Preaching vs ...
... Knowledge and Wisdom- 740 740 741 .. 741 The Post - Boy 742 718 ... 742 John Howard ...... 718 The Guilt of making Man Property 745 Sir Joshua Reynolds 719 To Mary ... 745 Speech to the Electors of Bristol . ... 720 Preaching vs ...
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... knowledge in good letters . Having therefore well grounded himselfe in Religion , by reading the Scriptures , he applied his Studies to the Art of Physicke , a Profession worthy a noble Wit : but amongst other things , he was ravished ...
... knowledge in good letters . Having therefore well grounded himselfe in Religion , by reading the Scriptures , he applied his Studies to the Art of Physicke , a Profession worthy a noble Wit : but amongst other things , he was ravished ...
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Addison admirable appear beauty better black crows bless born called character Chaucer Christian church Cicero death delight divine doth earth Edinburgh Review elegant ELIZABETH TOLLET England English English language English Poetry Essay Essay on Criticism eternal eyes Faerie Queene fair fame fancy father fear flowers genius give grace hand happy hath hear heart heaven holy honor hope human Isaac Bickerstaff king labor lady language learning live look Lord Lycidas manner mind moral nature never night o'er passion person pleasure poem poet poetical poetry poor Pope praise prose published reason religion remarks rich Richard Steele rise says shade Shakspeare song soon soul spirit style sweet taste Tatler thee things THOMAS CHATTERTON thou thought tion truth verse Virgil virtue wisdom words writings young youth
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Página 597 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Página 213 - We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Página 598 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign' d, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?
Página 164 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Página 664 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Página 593 - Fair laughs the Morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes: Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm: Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That hush'd in grim repose expects his evening prey.
Página 247 - That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed...
Página 598 - Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th...
Página 394 - I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow; when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be...
Página 266 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...