The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and Bibliographical Summary of the World's Most Eminent Authors, Including the Choicest Selections and Masterpieces from Their Writings ...Fifth avenue library society, 1899 |
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... English poet and es- sayist. Cowley ( kouli ) , Abraham . Cowper ( kö'per or kou'pér ) , William . Cox ( koks ) , Sir George William . Cox , Samuel Hanson . Cox , Samuel Sullivan . Coxe ( koks ) , Arthur Cleveland . Coxe , William ...
... English poet and es- sayist. Cowley ( kouli ) , Abraham . Cowper ( kö'per or kou'pér ) , William . Cox ( koks ) , Sir George William . Cox , Samuel Hanson . Cox , Samuel Sullivan . Coxe ( koks ) , Arthur Cleveland . Coxe , William ...
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... English poet and es- sayist , born at London in 1618 ; died at Chertsey , Surrey , July 28 , 1667. His father died shortly before the poet's birth , and his mother obtained his admission to Westminster School as a king's scholar . While ...
... English poet and es- sayist , born at London in 1618 ; died at Chertsey , Surrey , July 28 , 1667. His father died shortly before the poet's birth , and his mother obtained his admission to Westminster School as a king's scholar . While ...
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... English prose . OF MYSELF . This only grant me , that my means may lie Too low for envy , for contempt too high . Some honor I would have , Not from great deeds , but good alone ; The unknown are better than ill - known ; Rumor 8 ...
... English prose . OF MYSELF . This only grant me , that my means may lie Too low for envy , for contempt too high . Some honor I would have , Not from great deeds , but good alone ; The unknown are better than ill - known ; Rumor 8 ...
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... stage with show and noise , nay , even than Augustus himself , who asked with his last breath , whether he had not played his farce very well . - Essays . COWPER , WILLIAM , a renowned English poet , born ABRAHAM COWLEY 13.
... stage with show and noise , nay , even than Augustus himself , who asked with his last breath , whether he had not played his farce very well . - Essays . COWPER , WILLIAM , a renowned English poet , born ABRAHAM COWLEY 13.
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... English poet , born at Great Berkhamstead , Hertford- shire , England , November 15 , 1731 ; died at East Dereham , Norfolk , April 25 , 1800. His father was Rector of Berkhamstead and sprang from an ancient family , which could trace ...
... English poet , born at Great Berkhamstead , Hertford- shire , England , November 15 , 1731 ; died at East Dereham , Norfolk , April 25 , 1800. His father was Rector of Berkhamstead and sprang from an ancient family , which could trace ...
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31. oldal - Shortening his journey between morn and noon, And hurrying him, impatient of his stay, Down to the rosy west ; but kindly still Compensating his loss with added hours Of social converse and instructive ease, And...
225. oldal - And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee...
20. oldal - Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head...
24. oldal - Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store: Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light...
226. oldal - Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you ; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind, and in the same judgment.
26. oldal - He loved the world that hated him : the tear That dropp'd upon his Bible was sincere ; Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was a blameless life ; And he that forged, and he that threw the dart, Had each a brother's interest in his heart.
29. oldal - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
40. oldal - Where spices breathe, and brighter seasons smile, There sits quiescent on the floods that show Her beauteous form reflected clear below, While airs impregnated with incense play Around her, fanning light her streamers gay ; So thou, with sails how swift ! hast reached the shore, " Where tempests never beat nor billows roar,"* And thy loved consort on the dangerous tide Of life long since has anchored by thy side.
49. oldal - We are living, we are dwelling, In a grand and awful time, In an age on ages telling, To be living is sublime.
34. oldal - BETWEEN Nose and Eyes a strange contest arose, The spectacles set them unhappily wrong ; The point in dispute was, as all the world knows, To which the said spectacles ought to belong.