Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 |
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... HILL , D.C.L. SOMETIME HONORARY FELLOW OF PEMBROKE COLLEGE , OXFORD WITH BRIEF MEMOIR OF DR . BIRKBECK HILL , BY HIS NEPHEW HAROLD SPENCER SCOTT , M.A. , NEW COLLEGE , OXFORD IN THREE VOLUMES VOL . I COWLEY - DRYDEN OXFORD AT THE ...
... HILL , D.C.L. SOMETIME HONORARY FELLOW OF PEMBROKE COLLEGE , OXFORD WITH BRIEF MEMOIR OF DR . BIRKBECK HILL , BY HIS NEPHEW HAROLD SPENCER SCOTT , M.A. , NEW COLLEGE , OXFORD IN THREE VOLUMES VOL . I COWLEY - DRYDEN OXFORD AT THE ...
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... Hill went up to Oxford , when they were still boy and girl . At Bruce Castle School , first in partnership with his father , but from 1868 as sole head master , Birkbeck Hill remained until 1877. At Tottenham all his seven children were ...
... Hill went up to Oxford , when they were still boy and girl . At Bruce Castle School , first in partnership with his father , but from 1868 as sole head master , Birkbeck Hill remained until 1877. At Tottenham all his seven children were ...
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Samuel Johnson George Birkbeck Norman Hill. the friends made during this Oxford time . He availed himself of his ... Hill entered upon a new field of writing , though the great study of his life was still the subject . In this book ...
Samuel Johnson George Birkbeck Norman Hill. the friends made during this Oxford time . He availed himself of his ... Hill entered upon a new field of writing , though the great study of his life was still the subject . In this book ...
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... Hill . Yet it was hoped that there were , in spite of his own infirmities , some years of quiet work before him . It was not to be . Hardly four months did he survive her . He died at Hampstead , in his daughter's home , on Feb. 27 ...
... Hill . Yet it was hoped that there were , in spite of his own infirmities , some years of quiet work before him . It was not to be . Hardly four months did he survive her . He died at Hampstead , in his daughter's home , on Feb. 27 ...
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... Hill , D.C.L. , LL.D. , Hon . Fellow of Pembroke College , Oxford . London , 1899 . Boswell's Proof Sheets . The Boswell Centenary . Included in Johnson Club Papers by Various Hands . London , 1899 . The Memoirs of the Life of Edward ...
... Hill , D.C.L. , LL.D. , Hon . Fellow of Pembroke College , Oxford . London , 1899 . Boswell's Proof Sheets . The Boswell Centenary . Included in Johnson Club Papers by Various Hands . London , 1899 . The Memoirs of the Life of Edward ...
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163. oldal - In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral ; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted ; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind.
276. oldal - ... bowers to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close. And keep the flame from wasting by repose. I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my...
20. oldal - If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just...
78. oldal - 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.
100. oldal - Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and Justice are virtues and excellencies of all times and of all places; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance.
141. oldal - Paradise Lost," but what hast thou to say of
88. oldal - This he steadily denies, and it was apparently not true ; but it seems plain, from his own verses to Diodati, that he had incurred
292. oldal - Of sentiments purely religious, it will be found that the most simple expression is the most sublime. Poetry loses its lustre and its power, because it is applied to the decoration of something more excellent than itself.
136. oldal - I have a particular reason," says he, " to remember ; for whereas I had the perusal of it " from the very beginning, for some years, as I " went from time to time to visit him, in parcels of " ten, twenty, or thirty verses at a time (which, " being written by whatever hand came next, might " possibly want correction as to the orthography
440. oldal - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.