The Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire;: Being Lives of the Most Distinguished Persons that Have Been Born In, Or Connected With, Those ProvincesWhittaker and Company; Simpkin, Marshall, and Company; John Cross, Leeds; Bancks and Company Manchester; Grapel, Liverpool., 1836 - 732 sider |
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... Poet of no vulgar strain , it is to be regretted that our notices are less ample and continuous than his personal merit deserves , or his exalted walk of public action would induce us to expect . His name , indeed , is gene- rally known ...
... Poet of no vulgar strain , it is to be regretted that our notices are less ample and continuous than his personal merit deserves , or his exalted walk of public action would induce us to expect . His name , indeed , is gene- rally known ...
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... poetic brow , — Immortal Bard , as well might'st thou Write verses to a huge Dutch Frau , As big as all three Graces , As well , nay better far by half , Make hymns to Jeroboam's calf , Or write in sand an epitaph , O'er the drown'd ...
... poetic brow , — Immortal Bard , as well might'st thou Write verses to a huge Dutch Frau , As big as all three Graces , As well , nay better far by half , Make hymns to Jeroboam's calf , Or write in sand an epitaph , O'er the drown'd ...
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... poet , not of promise merely , but of high achievement , in the flower of manly beauty , in the vernal warmth of high and generous daring ; not even in the proudest days of her Republic , had Rome to boast two nobler youths than Milton ...
... poet , not of promise merely , but of high achievement , in the flower of manly beauty , in the vernal warmth of high and generous daring ; not even in the proudest days of her Republic , had Rome to boast two nobler youths than Milton ...
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... poet . The new Parliament met on the 8th of May , 1661. Marvell was re - elected seemingly without opposition ; but instead of Mr. John Ramsden , ( who was probably related to William Ramsden , the mayor of Hull , to whom the earlier ...
... poet . The new Parliament met on the 8th of May , 1661. Marvell was re - elected seemingly without opposition ; but instead of Mr. John Ramsden , ( who was probably related to William Ramsden , the mayor of Hull , to whom the earlier ...
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... poet magni- fies into great victories ; and far more memorably by the fire of London , which was so merciful in its severity , that we are more inclined to attribute it to Divine goodness than to the malice of Papist or Puritan , seeing ...
... poet magni- fies into great victories ; and far more memorably by the fire of London , which was so merciful in its severity , that we are more inclined to attribute it to Divine goodness than to the malice of Papist or Puritan , seeing ...
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Side 269 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Side 690 - I been depos'd, if you had reign'd! The father had descended for the son, For only you are lineal to the throne. Thus when the state one Edward did depose, A greater Edward in his room arose. But now, not I, but poetry is curs'd, For Tom the Second reigns like Tom the First. But let 'em not mistake my patron's part, Nor call his charity their own desert. Yet this I prophesy: thou shalt be seen (Tho...
Side 62 - Though Justice against Fate complain, And plead the ancient rights in vain: But those do hold or break As men are strong or weak.
Side 270 - The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : 10 Plain living and high thinking are no more...
Side 59 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Side 313 - I must do it, as it were in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly as 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 honor I bear them, so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Side 508 - Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven ! — Oh ! times, In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in Romance...
Side 72 - When I wrote my Treatise about our System *, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose.
Side 90 - What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Side 262 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.