The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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... learning and choice books imprinted there : As well he knows all times and persons gone , As he himself to the ' future shall be known : But his chief study is God's sacred law , And all his life does comments on it draw ; - As never ...
... learning and choice books imprinted there : As well he knows all times and persons gone , As he himself to the ' future shall be known : But his chief study is God's sacred law , And all his life does comments on it draw ; - As never ...
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... learning and books for fresh supplies , so that the solitary life will grow indi- gent , and be ready to starve , without them ; but if once we be thoroughly engaged in the love of letters , instead of being wearied with the length of ...
... learning and books for fresh supplies , so that the solitary life will grow indi- gent , and be ready to starve , without them ; but if once we be thoroughly engaged in the love of letters , instead of being wearied with the length of ...
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... learning and books for fresh supplies , so that the solitary life will grow indi- gent , and be ready to starve , without them ; but if once we be thoroughly engaged in the love of letters , instead of being wearied with the length of ...
... learning and books for fresh supplies , so that the solitary life will grow indi- gent , and be ready to starve , without them ; but if once we be thoroughly engaged in the love of letters , instead of being wearied with the length of ...
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... learning , would be a sufficient constant revenue for maintenance of the house and the professors , who should be men not chosen for the ostentation of critical literature , but for solid and experimental knowledge of the things they ...
... learning , would be a sufficient constant revenue for maintenance of the house and the professors , who should be men not chosen for the ostentation of critical literature , but for solid and experimental knowledge of the things they ...
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... and projects cheat , Nor bribe or flatter any of the great . But you're a man of learning , prudent , just ; A man of courage , firm , and fit for trust . 2 Juv . Sat. iii . 41 . Why , you may stay and live unenvied here ; 184 ESSAYS .
... and projects cheat , Nor bribe or flatter any of the great . But you're a man of learning , prudent , just ; A man of courage , firm , and fit for trust . 2 Juv . Sat. iii . 41 . Why , you may stay and live unenvied here ; 184 ESSAYS .
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Seite 178 - Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise: He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole stream which stopp'd him should be gone, Which runs, and, as it runs, for ever will run on.
Seite 165 - And they said : Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Seite 186 - Nothing shall separate me from a mistress which I have loved so long, and have now at last married, though she neither has brought me a rich portion, nor lived yet so quietly with me as I hoped from her.
Seite 75 - Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
Seite 182 - Thus would I double my life's fading space, For he that runs it well, twice runs his race. And in this true delight, These unbought sports, that happy state, I would not fear nor wish my fate, But boldly say each night, To-morrow let my sun his beams display, Or in clouds hide them; I have lived to-day.
Seite 116 - Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.
Seite 93 - The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made for themselves, under whatever form it be of government. The liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country. Of this latter we are here to discourse.
Seite 119 - Hail, old patrician trees, so great and good! Hail, ye plebeian under-wood ! Where the poetic birds rejoice, And for their quiet nests and plenteous food Pay, with their grateful voice. Hail, the poor Muses...
Seite 187 - Nor by me e'er shall you, You of all names the sweetest, and the best, You Muses, books, and liberty, and rest; You gardens, fields, and woods forsaken be, As long as life itself forsakes not me.
Seite 184 - I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all this), and by degrees, with the tinkling of the rhyme, and dance of the numbers; so that I think I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch.