Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, with Sketches, Biographical and Literary ...Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 |
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15. oldal
... never sounds so sweet as in the night of preservation , or of our own private affliction ; it is ever the same , the dif- ference is in our disposition to receive it . O God , whose praise it is to give songs in the night , make my ...
... never sounds so sweet as in the night of preservation , or of our own private affliction ; it is ever the same , the dif- ference is in our disposition to receive it . O God , whose praise it is to give songs in the night , make my ...
17. oldal
... never the worse , but pleaseth herself in her own quiet reservedness ; it is not for a wise man to be much affected with the censures of the rude and unskilful vulgar , but to hold fast unto his own well - chosen and well - fixed ...
... never the worse , but pleaseth herself in her own quiet reservedness ; it is not for a wise man to be much affected with the censures of the rude and unskilful vulgar , but to hold fast unto his own well - chosen and well - fixed ...
19. oldal
... never rest , whereas the great mountains stand ever still , and move not but with an earth- quake ; even so light and busy spirits are in con- tinual agitation , to little purpose ; while great deep wits sit still , and stir not , but ...
... never rest , whereas the great mountains stand ever still , and move not but with an earth- quake ; even so light and busy spirits are in con- tinual agitation , to little purpose ; while great deep wits sit still , and stir not , but ...
28. oldal
... never deceive him , since there- in he shall find out how far the impressions of God's wisdom and goodness are extant in all mankind , and to what degrees his universal Providence hath di- lated itself : while thus ascending to God by ...
... never deceive him , since there- in he shall find out how far the impressions of God's wisdom and goodness are extant in all mankind , and to what degrees his universal Providence hath di- lated itself : while thus ascending to God by ...
49. oldal
... never so great a multitude , yet if their actions be directed according to their particular judgments , and particular appetites , they can expect thereby no defence , nor protection , neither against a common enemy , nor against the ...
... never so great a multitude , yet if their actions be directed according to their particular judgments , and particular appetites , they can expect thereby no defence , nor protection , neither against a common enemy , nor against the ...
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181. oldal - God's almightiness, and what He works, and what He suffers to be wrought with high providence in His church; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship.
469. oldal - A just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and humours, and the changes of fortune to which it is subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind.
189. oldal - I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings and from hence had in renown over all Christendom.
179. oldal - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer and those other two of Virgil and Tasso 5 are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief, model...
193. oldal - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
307. oldal - There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler : 6 Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. 7 I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.
134. oldal - Whilst I study to find how I am a microcosm, or little world, I find myself something more than the great. There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
159. oldal - But of those who seemed to be somewhat, whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person : for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me...
189. oldal - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.
334. oldal - ... that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlow, now at least fifty years ago; and the milkmaid's mother sung an answer to it, which was made by Sir Walter Raleigh in his younger days. They were old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good, I think much better than the strong lines that are now in fashion in this critical age.