Chambers's Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British and American Authors, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volumes 3-4Robert Chambers American Book Exchange, 1830 |
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... Fair on the Thames , 1684 A.D 113 Evelyn's Account of his Daughter Fashions in Dre - s ... Samuel Pepys ( 1632-1703 ) . Matthew Prior ( 1664-1721 ) . 149 Extract from Verses to Chloe ' ..... 150 For My Own Monument ... 151 Epitaph ...
... Fair on the Thames , 1684 A.D 113 Evelyn's Account of his Daughter Fashions in Dre - s ... Samuel Pepys ( 1632-1703 ) . Matthew Prior ( 1664-1721 ) . 149 Extract from Verses to Chloe ' ..... 150 For My Own Monument ... 151 Epitaph ...
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... fair means or by foul , money . God says : ' Defraud not ; never lie ; be honest and just in thy dealings ; Mammon says : ' Cheat thy own father if thou canst gain by it . ' God says : ' Be charitable ; ' Mammon says : Hold thy own ...
... fair means or by foul , money . God says : ' Defraud not ; never lie ; be honest and just in thy dealings ; Mammon says : ' Cheat thy own father if thou canst gain by it . ' God says : ' Be charitable ; ' Mammon says : Hold thy own ...
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... fair weather . He apprenends God's blessings only in a good year or a fat pasture , and never praises him but on good ground . Sunday he esteems a day to make merry in , and thinks a bagpipe as essential to it as evening - prayer ...
... fair weather . He apprenends God's blessings only in a good year or a fat pasture , and never praises him but on good ground . Sunday he esteems a day to make merry in , and thinks a bagpipe as essential to it as evening - prayer ...
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... fair soever the soul may be , yet while connected with our fleshy nature , it requires continual care and vigilance to prevent its being soiled and discoloured . Take the weeders from the Floraljum and a very little time will change it ...
... fair soever the soul may be , yet while connected with our fleshy nature , it requires continual care and vigilance to prevent its being soiled and discoloured . Take the weeders from the Floraljum and a very little time will change it ...
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... fair ; but action to Leah , which was the more fruitful . I will neither always be busy and doing , nor ever shut up in nothing but thought . Yet that which some would call idleness , I will call the sweetest part of my life , and that ...
... fair ; but action to Leah , which was the more fruitful . I will neither always be busy and doing , nor ever shut up in nothing but thought . Yet that which some would call idleness , I will call the sweetest part of my life , and that ...
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Page 21 - O'erhang his wavy bed: Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises, 'midst the twilight path Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum...
Page 64 - THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frowned not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, . Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to misery all he had, a tear: He gained from heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend.
Page 133 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree, While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed; And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round.
Page 395 - Unanxious for ourselves ; and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty man suspects himself a fool: Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve ; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves; and re-resolves; then dies the same.
Page 3 - Unconscious lies, effuse your mildest beams, Ye constellations, while your angels strike, Amid the spangled sky, the silver lyre. Great source of day ! best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On nature write with every beam his praise.
Page 64 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favourite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; 'The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 395 - Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, " That all men are about to live," For ever on the brink of being born : All pay themselves the compliment to think They one day shall not drivel, and their pride On this reversion takes up ready praise ; At least their own ; their future selves...
Page 21 - midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams. Or if chill blustering winds, or driving rain, Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut, That, from the mountain's side, Views wilds, and swelling floods, And hamlets brown, and dim-discovered spires ; And hears their simple bell ; and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Page 193 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys: So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
Page 22 - When Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft, to hear her shell, Thronged around her magic cell ; Exulting, trembling, raging, fainting, Possessed beyond the muse's painting ; By turns they felt the glowing mind Disturbed, delighted, raised, refined ; Till once, 'tis said, when all were fired, Filled with fury, rapt, inspired, From the supporting myrtles round, They snatched her instruments of sound ; And as they oft had heard apart Sweet lessons of her...