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... seems possible to find out by examining his writings . Milton , again , chose the Scripture personage as the hero of an epic poem , and employed his grand imagination in realizing the Scrip- ture narrative : we have reason also to know ...
... seems possible to find out by examining his writings . Milton , again , chose the Scripture personage as the hero of an epic poem , and employed his grand imagination in realizing the Scrip- ture narrative : we have reason also to know ...
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... thing to be a leader seems to have had much to do with his voluntary sacrifice of happiness . We may conceive it to have been voluntary . Foreseeing never so much misery would not have LUTHER'S , MILTON'S , AND GOETHE'S . 21.
... thing to be a leader seems to have had much to do with his voluntary sacrifice of happiness . We may conceive it to have been voluntary . Foreseeing never so much misery would not have LUTHER'S , MILTON'S , AND GOETHE'S . 21.
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... seem to have differed from their leaders in this , that they were san- guine of being able to better their condition , whereas their leaders sought only the gratification of their desire of action . The question next was , Who would ...
... seem to have differed from their leaders in this , that they were san- guine of being able to better their condition , whereas their leaders sought only the gratification of their desire of action . The question next was , Who would ...
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... seems to betray , in his demeanour , the effects of four thousand years spent in a new walk . Is there not something Mephisto- pheles - like , for instance , in the description of the Fiend's appearance when he approached Christ to ...
... seems to betray , in his demeanour , the effects of four thousand years spent in a new walk . Is there not something Mephisto- pheles - like , for instance , in the description of the Fiend's appearance when he approached Christ to ...
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... seems to me , begging your Grace's pardon , Like one of those long - legged things in a garden That fly about and hop and spring , And in the grass the same old chirrup sing . Would I could say that here the story closes ! But in each ...
... seems to me , begging your Grace's pardon , Like one of those long - legged things in a garden That fly about and hop and spring , And in the grass the same old chirrup sing . Would I could say that here the story closes ! But in each ...
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Seite 84 - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
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Seite 230 - And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide...
Seite 11 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Seite 138 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout . Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning; The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
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Seite 111 - They that have power to hurt and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves as stone...
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Seite 37 - Trench. — Works by R. CHENEVIX TRENCH, DD, Archbishop of Dublin. (For other Works by this Author, see THEOLOGICAL, HISTORICAL, and PHILOSOPHICAL CATALOGUES.) POEMS. Collected and arranged anew. Fcap. 8vo.