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Page 428
... was procured under the Act of Indulgence , and he began preaching regularly in a barn in an orchard which stood between Castle and Mill Lane . But in 1675 his licence as a preacher was revoked 428 A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
... was procured under the Act of Indulgence , and he began preaching regularly in a barn in an orchard which stood between Castle and Mill Lane . But in 1675 his licence as a preacher was revoked 428 A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
Page 437
... began his famous book on divorce ; even before this , his bride seems to have found the studious life profoundly uncon- genial . She was barely eighteen at the time of the mar- riage , and after a month of married life she returned to ...
... began his famous book on divorce ; even before this , his bride seems to have found the studious life profoundly uncon- genial . She was barely eighteen at the time of the mar- riage , and after a month of married life she returned to ...
Page 453
... began to write his great epic , the evolution of which had so long beset his mind , in the year of Cromwell's death -1658 , the poet himself being then fifty years old . His second wife and her infant had recently died , but he was left ...
... began to write his great epic , the evolution of which had so long beset his mind , in the year of Cromwell's death -1658 , the poet himself being then fifty years old . His second wife and her infant had recently died , but he was left ...
Page 466
... began the exposition of his system of philosophy . His meditations were interrupted by the outbreak of the Civil War , upon which Hobbes , who was not a fighting man , led the van of the emigrés to France , where he continued eleven ...
... began the exposition of his system of philosophy . His meditations were interrupted by the outbreak of the Civil War , upon which Hobbes , who was not a fighting man , led the van of the emigrés to France , where he continued eleven ...
Page 477
... began . The great disloca- tion which had taken place in society created a singular insensibility among the wits of the new court to the great poets and dramatists of the Elizabethan age . Charles I. had been a devoted admirer of ...
... began . The great disloca- tion which had taken place in society created a singular insensibility among the wits of the new court to the great poets and dramatists of the Elizabethan age . Charles I. had been a devoted admirer of ...
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Page 868 - 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 437 - 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 715 - 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 765 - 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 448 - 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 419 - 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 420 - 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 764 - 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 713 - 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 869 - 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.