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... soon after of both his livings . During the Commonwealth he was chap- lain to the Earl of Devonshire , and became the companion of Hobbes , who then attended his lordship : but Hobbes was never very good com- pany for divines ; and ...
... soon after of both his livings . During the Commonwealth he was chap- lain to the Earl of Devonshire , and became the companion of Hobbes , who then attended his lordship : but Hobbes was never very good com- pany for divines ; and ...
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... soon brought under suspicions of a more serious kind . In May 1641 he was accued before the parliament of being a partner with many of the king'sfriends in the design of bringing the army to London for his majesty's rotection . His ...
... soon brought under suspicions of a more serious kind . In May 1641 he was accued before the parliament of being a partner with many of the king'sfriends in the design of bringing the army to London for his majesty's rotection . His ...
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... Soon after he commenced pro- jector ; and hearing that vast improvements might be made in the loyal colony of Virginia by transporting good artificers , he embarked with a number of them at one of the ports of Normandy . This hu- mane ...
... Soon after he commenced pro- jector ; and hearing that vast improvements might be made in the loyal colony of Virginia by transporting good artificers , he embarked with a number of them at one of the ports of Normandy . This hu- mane ...
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... soon brought him to poverty ; and his irregular and too - free mode of living , among his companions and admirers , in all probability shortened his life . After living some time with his father at Little Houghton , in Northamptonshire ...
... soon brought him to poverty ; and his irregular and too - free mode of living , among his companions and admirers , in all probability shortened his life . After living some time with his father at Little Houghton , in Northamptonshire ...
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... soon after the acces- sion of King James , he was knighted and made a judge ; but his constitution being too weak for business , he retired before any dis- reputable compliances became necessary . He had likewise a daughter Anne , whom ...
... soon after the acces- sion of King James , he was knighted and made a judge ; but his constitution being too weak for business , he retired before any dis- reputable compliances became necessary . He had likewise a daughter Anne , whom ...
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Absalom and Achitophel admired Æneid afterwards ANDREW MARVELL appears beauties Ben Jonson better called censure character Charles Charles Dryden church College comedy court Cowley criticism Davenant death delight diction dramatic Dryden Duke Earl elegance English Essay excellence fancy favour genius heroic honour Hudibras imagination imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden Johnson kind king known labour lady language Latin learning lines lived London Lord Lord Roscommon Milton mind nature never numbers observed occasion opinion Paradise Lost parliament passions performance perhaps pieces Pindaric play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope praise preface produced prose published queen reader reason relates remarks reputation rhyme Richard Brome satire says seems sentiments sometimes Sprat supposed thing THOMAS D'URFEY thou thought tion tragedy tragi-comedy translation verses versification Virgil Westminster Westminster Abbey Westminster School words write written wrote
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Página 75 - 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.
Página 21 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Página 134 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Página 100 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And, though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
Página 185 - Blest above; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky!
Página 81 - I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all this); and by degrees with the tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers, so that I think I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch.
Página 29 - Englishmen being far northerly, do not open our mouths in the cold air wide enough to grace a southern tongue; but are observed by all other nations to speak exceeding close and inward; so that to smatter Latin with an English mouth, is as ill a hearing as law French.
Página 195 - I am as free as Nature first made man, \ Ere the base laws of servitude began, [• When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Página 19 - Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance, on the man who hastens home because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boardingschool 3.
Página 90 - Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic, for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness.