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ANDREW PARNELL beauty become called Chap character child Christian Cicero cloth deemed Demosthenes DIONYSIUS LARDNER discern divine earth Edition Electric Telegraph epic poetry errours evil express eyes faith fancy feelings former FRIEDRICH WÖHLER genius give glory Goethe Greece Greek heart heaven Hence Homer human nature idea imagination individual instance intellectual judgement JUSTUS VON LIEBIG kind knowledge language Laodamia laws less light living look lyrical poetry mankind manner merely Milton mind moral Moses Mendelsohn nation never object ochlocracy outward passions perfect persons Philosophy Plato poem poet poetical poetry price 5d principle progress racter reason reflexion regard religion Roman scarcely seems sense Shakspeare shew sight sophism Sophocles soul speaking spirit stand style sure things thought Thucydides tion translation true truth understanding unity utterance Volume whole wisdom words Wordsworth writers
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Page 273 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Page 83 - For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took ; Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble, with too much conceiving ; And, so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die.
Page 117 - ... even that of the loftiest and seemingly that of the wildest odes, had a logic of its own, as severe as that of science, and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more, and more fugitive, causes. In the truly great poets, he would say, there is a reason assignable not only for every word, but for the position of every word...
Page 77 - THREE poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Page 110 - Not favoured spots alone, but the whole earth, The beauty wore of promise, that which sets (As at some moment might not be unfelt Among the bowers of Paradise itself) The budding rose above the rose full blown.
Page 178 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
Page 210 - Pollute with sinful blame, The saintly veil of maiden white to throw; Confounded that her maker's eyes Should look so near upon her foul deformities.
Page 183 - I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death ? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!
Page 108 - The swan on still St Mary's Lake Floats double, swan and shadow.