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Page 271
... Dorset . My reader should have the Criticism before him . " DORSET , the grace of Courts , the Muse's pride , ' Patron of arts , and judge of nature , died . Canto XIV . St. viii . 66 The scourge of pride , though sanctified or great No ...
... Dorset . My reader should have the Criticism before him . " DORSET , the grace of Courts , the Muse's pride , ' Patron of arts , and judge of nature , died . Canto XIV . St. viii . 66 The scourge of pride , though sanctified or great No ...
Page 273
... Dorset is dead ; but that he " died . " - How ? when ? of what ? Such are amongst the questions , which this tense provokes . If , on the contrary , he had stated that Dorset , the once boasted and admired , was dead , -the sense of the ...
... Dorset is dead ; but that he " died . " - How ? when ? of what ? Such are amongst the questions , which this tense provokes . If , on the contrary , he had stated that Dorset , the once boasted and admired , was dead , -the sense of the ...
Page 274
... Dorset's province ; while the latter shews his qualification . The first does little more than praise his bounty : the latter more immediately com- mends his taste . The picture of an extensive bog , intersected with black drains of ...
... Dorset's province ; while the latter shews his qualification . The first does little more than praise his bounty : the latter more immediately com- mends his taste . The picture of an extensive bog , intersected with black drains of ...
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Poet does not extol Dorset , merely for not having sacrificed his ease ; ( which the Critick appears to confound with his indolence ; ) but for that address , which enabled him to please his king and ... Dorset, merely for not having ...
Poet does not extol Dorset , merely for not having sacrificed his ease ; ( which the Critick appears to confound with his indolence ; ) but for that address , which enabled him to please his king and ... Dorset, merely for not having ...
Page 276
... Dorset's character : that he was distinguished in the triple capacity of author , states- man , and man of rank . It contains some good lines : but I do not , on the whole , approve of either the language or versification . I pass to ...
... Dorset's character : that he was distinguished in the triple capacity of author , states- man , and man of rank . It contains some good lines : but I do not , on the whole , approve of either the language or versification . I pass to ...
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Page 315 - And the glory of the Lord abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days : and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud. And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
Page 314 - And they saw the God of Israel : and there was under his feet, as it were, a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
Page 317 - Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat ? Nevertheless we.
Page 315 - And immediately I was in the spirit : and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone : and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
Page 312 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Page 278 - To this sad shrine, whoe'er thou art, draw near, Here lies the friend most lov'd, the son most dear: Who ne'er knew joy, but friendship might divide, Or gave his father grief but when he dy'd.
Page 236 - O goodness infinite, goodness immense! That all this good of evil shall produce, And evil turn to good ; more wonderful Than that which by creation first brought forth Light out of darkness! Full of doubt I stand, Whether I should repent me now of sin By me done and occasioned, or rejoice Much more, that much more good thereof shall spring, To God more glory, more good will to men, From God, and over wrath grace shall abound.
Page 312 - Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
Page 289 - Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit, a man ; simplicity, a child ; With native humour temp'ring virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age ; Above temptation, in a low estate ; And uncorrupted...
Page 288 - A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died.