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... became a suitor to the Lady Dorothea Sidney of Penshurst , whom he eternised in his poems as Sacharissa . tween the metaphysical and ecstatic school of religious poetry and the long set pieces of eighteenth - century didacticism . Pope ...
... became a suitor to the Lady Dorothea Sidney of Penshurst , whom he eternised in his poems as Sacharissa . tween the metaphysical and ecstatic school of religious poetry and the long set pieces of eighteenth - century didacticism . Pope ...
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... me , ye woodbines , in your twines Curb me about , ye gadding vines , And oh , so close your circles lace That I may never leave this place ! In 1653 he returned to London and became a familiar 418 A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
... me , ye woodbines , in your twines Curb me about , ye gadding vines , And oh , so close your circles lace That I may never leave this place ! In 1653 he returned to London and became a familiar 418 A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
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Sir William Robertson Nicoll, Thomas Seccombe. In 1653 he returned to London and became a familiar figure at Milton's house in Petty France , and in 1657 he became Milton's colleague in the Latin secretaryship . Next year he wrote his ...
Sir William Robertson Nicoll, Thomas Seccombe. In 1653 he returned to London and became a familiar figure at Milton's house in Petty France , and in 1657 he became Milton's colleague in the Latin secretaryship . Next year he wrote his ...
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... became regular and respectable in his habits . " I fell in , " he says , " with the religion of the times to go to church twice a day , very devoutly to say and sing as the others did , yet retaining my wicked life . " By this wicked ...
... became regular and respectable in his habits . " I fell in , " he says , " with the religion of the times to go to church twice a day , very devoutly to say and sing as the others did , yet retaining my wicked life . " By this wicked ...
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... clergy , who had been as " partridges on the mountains , " returned to their pulpits , and it became the turn of the conventicles to undergo persecution . The Act of Conformity made no distinction between JOHN BUNYAN 427.
... clergy , who had been as " partridges on the mountains , " returned to their pulpits , and it became the turn of the conventicles to undergo persecution . The Act of Conformity made no distinction between JOHN BUNYAN 427.
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Page 860 - Guid faith he mauna fa' that. For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that ; The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher rank than a that. Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that ; That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a
Page 429 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he, who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 709 - I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken my everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
Page 758 - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Page 442 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Page 411 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Page 412 - While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands ; He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor called the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right, But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed.
Page 758 - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could...
Page 707 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 861 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.