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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12. oldal
... became an excellent scholar . At seventeen he was articled to a Lon- don solicitor ; but he paid no attention to legal studies . His uncle , Ashley Cowper , a man of considerable fortune , resided in London , and it was arranged that ...
... became an excellent scholar . At seventeen he was articled to a Lon- don solicitor ; but he paid no attention to legal studies . His uncle , Ashley Cowper , a man of considerable fortune , resided in London , and it was arranged that ...
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... became a kind of informal lay assistant to the energetic Newton . He visited the parishioners , read prayers with the sick , and even conducted extempore prayers . But the strong meat which was nourishment to the robust- minded Newton ...
... became a kind of informal lay assistant to the energetic Newton . He visited the parishioners , read prayers with the sick , and even conducted extempore prayers . But the strong meat which was nourishment to the robust- minded Newton ...
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... became acquainted with Lady Austen , a widow , rich , beautiful , and clever , in whose society and friendship he found great delight . He was now about fifty , and up to this time he had written only a few hundred lines of poetry ...
... became acquainted with Lady Austen , a widow , rich , beautiful , and clever , in whose society and friendship he found great delight . He was now about fifty , and up to this time he had written only a few hundred lines of poetry ...
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... became the most popular ballad of the day . Lady Austen not long afterward urged Cowper to try his powers at writing blank verse , giving him as a subject the Sofa on which she happened to be sit- ting . The result was the poem entitled ...
... became the most popular ballad of the day . Lady Austen not long afterward urged Cowper to try his powers at writing blank verse , giving him as a subject the Sofa on which she happened to be sit- ting . The result was the poem entitled ...
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... became a chair . But restless was the chair ; the back erect Distressed the weary loins , that felt no ease ; The slippery seat betrayed the sliding part That pressed it , and the feet hung dangling down , Anxious in vain to find the ...
... became a chair . But restless was the chair ; the back erect Distressed the weary loins , that felt no ease ; The slippery seat betrayed the sliding part That pressed it , and the feet hung dangling down , Anxious in vain to find the ...
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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.