Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, with Sketches, Biographical and Literary ...Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 |
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Pagina 15
... doth this music sound in this dead season ! In the day time it would not , it could not so much affect the ear . All harmonious sounds are ad- vanced by a silent darkness ; thus it is with the glad tidings of salvation ; the gospel ...
... doth this music sound in this dead season ! In the day time it would not , it could not so much affect the ear . All harmonious sounds are ad- vanced by a silent darkness ; thus it is with the glad tidings of salvation ; the gospel ...
Pagina 16
... doth this crea- ture lead ; to hide her head all the day long in an ivy bush , and at night , when all other birds are at rest , to fly abroad , and vent her harsh notes . I know not why the ancients have sacred this bird to wisdom ...
... doth this crea- ture lead ; to hide her head all the day long in an ivy bush , and at night , when all other birds are at rest , to fly abroad , and vent her harsh notes . I know not why the ancients have sacred this bird to wisdom ...
Pagina 17
... doth more dismay or com- fort me ; it dismays me to think , that here is so much that I cannot know ; it comforts me to think that this variety yields so good helps to know what I should . There is no truer word than that of Solo- mon ...
... doth more dismay or com- fort me ; it dismays me to think , that here is so much that I cannot know ; it comforts me to think that this variety yields so good helps to know what I should . There is no truer word than that of Solo- mon ...
Pagina 27
... doth not worship God . So that there will be a necessity to distin- guish . Not yet that any man will be able , upon comparison , to discern which is the perfectest among the many professed in the whole world ; ( each of them being of ...
... doth not worship God . So that there will be a necessity to distin- guish . Not yet that any man will be able , upon comparison , to discern which is the perfectest among the many professed in the whole world ; ( each of them being of ...
Pagina 29
... doth avail without hearty sorrow for our sins , and a true repentance towards God , whom we have offended . And lastly , amidst the divers places and manners of reward and punishment , which former ages have delivered , we shall find ...
... doth avail without hearty sorrow for our sins , and a true repentance towards God , whom we have offended . And lastly , amidst the divers places and manners of reward and punishment , which former ages have delivered , we shall find ...
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Æsop affections afterwards Algernon Sidney ANDREW MARVEL archbishop of Canterbury Ben Jonson bishop body born cause cerning Charles Charles II christian church civil College common commonwealth court danger death Discourse divine doctrine doth earl earth Eikon Basilike eminent enemy England English Episcopacy excellent faith fame father folio give glory happy hath History Hobbes honour humour Isaac Barrow JOHN TILLOTSON Julius Cæsar king king's kingdom Lacedemon Latin learned letters liberty lived London lord mankind matter ment mind nation nature ness never observed opinion Oxford parliament Parliament of England passions peace person philosophical poet prince privy counsellor published reason reign religion sermons shew Smectymnuus soul spirit thee things thou thought tion tracts treatise truth tural unto virtue whence whereof whole wisdom wise writing written
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Pagina 181 - God's almightiness, and what He works, and what He suffers to be wrought with high providence in His church; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship.
Pagina 469 - A just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and humours, and the changes of fortune to which it is subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind.
Pagina 189 - I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings and from hence had in renown over all Christendom.
Pagina 179 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer and those other two of Virgil and Tasso 5 are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief, model...
Pagina 193 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Pagina 307 - There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler : 6 Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. 7 I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.
Pagina 134 - Whilst I study to find how I am a microcosm, or little world, I find myself something more than the great. There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Pagina 159 - But of those who seemed to be somewhat, whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person : for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me...
Pagina 189 - 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 ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.
Pagina 334 - ... that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlow, now at least fifty years ago; and the milkmaid's mother sung an answer to it, which was made by Sir Walter Raleigh in his younger days. They were old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good, I think much better than the strong lines that are now in fashion in this critical age.