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... acquainted . But this is an im- pulse which , we may venture to affirm , when once truly awakened , no discouragements that the most unfavourable circumstances have interposed have ever been able effectually to subdue . been born ...
... acquainted . But this is an im- pulse which , we may venture to affirm , when once truly awakened , no discouragements that the most unfavourable circumstances have interposed have ever been able effectually to subdue . been born ...
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... acquaintance with such sub- jects in the poor cow - herd , Forster , who was a lawyer , entered into conversation with him , and was so much struck by his information and intelli- nce , that he both supplied him with a number of books ...
... acquaintance with such sub- jects in the poor cow - herd , Forster , who was a lawyer , entered into conversation with him , and was so much struck by his information and intelli- nce , that he both supplied him with a number of books ...
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... acquaintance with the higher afterwards to a weaver , at which branches of literature . The last trade , indeed , he continued PETER RAMUS ( Pierre de la Ramée ) , one of the most celebrated writers and intrepid thinkers of the ...
... acquaintance with the higher afterwards to a weaver , at which branches of literature . The last trade , indeed , he continued PETER RAMUS ( Pierre de la Ramée ) , one of the most celebrated writers and intrepid thinkers of the ...
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... acquaintance with the literature even of his own profession ; and it not unfre- quently happened , indeed , we are told , that upon communi- cating a supposed discovery of his own to some one of his more erudite friends , he had to ...
... acquaintance with the literature even of his own profession ; and it not unfre- quently happened , indeed , we are told , that upon communi- cating a supposed discovery of his own to some one of his more erudite friends , he had to ...
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... acquaintance with him , took him one day to a foundry in Bartholomew Close , when , after having shown him something of the nature of the business , he asked him if he thought he could now undertake to cut D language till now . Our own ...
... acquaintance with him , took him one day to a foundry in Bartholomew Close , when , after having shown him something of the nature of the business , he asked him if he thought he could now undertake to cut D language till now . Our own ...
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Page 106 - Whose powers shed round him in the common strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace ; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover ; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired...
Page 225 - This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide.
Page 170 - I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there.
Page 106 - Is happy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired ; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw; Or if an unexpected call succeed, Come when it will, is equal to the need...
Page 224 - Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and everduring dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Page 225 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt. Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair. And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Page 25 - He scarce had ceased when the superior Fiend Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast. The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesolè, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 202 - Elegy on Aquila Rose, before mentioned, an ingenious young man, of excellent character, much respected in the town, clerk of the Assembly, and a pretty poet. Keimer made verses too, but very indifferently. He could not be said to write them, for his manner was to compose them in the types directly out of his head. So there being no copy, but one pair of cases, and the Elegy likely to require all the letter, no one could help him.
Page 168 - They read it, commented on it in my hearing, and I had the exquisite pleasure of finding it met with their approbation, and that, in their different guesses at the author, none were named but men of some character among us for learning and ingenuity.
Page 167 - I had gone on making verses; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind and make me a master of it.