Dryden

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Clarendon Press, 1883 - 301 Seiten

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Seite 240 - 1. 634. An allusion to the serpent of brass made by Moses, and ' set upon a pole ' by God's command, to save the Israelites from the fiery serpents which God had sent for punishment. ' And it came to pass that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass he lived.
Seite 253 - object of contention between the Turks and Germany. 1. 398. This refers to the reply of Jesus to the Jewish officers who went with Judas to seek him. ' As soon then as he had said unto them, I am he, they went backward, and fell to the ground.
Seite 245 - 77. Todd has compared the language of these lines to Zophar's in Job: 'Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?
Seite 247 - 34. Compare with this couplet on virtue Pope's on vice: ' Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen.' 1. 35. The bloody Bear, the Independent. 1. 37.
Seite 273 - Livy. Books XXI—XXIII. With Introduction and Notes. By MT TATHAM. MA Extra fcap. 8vo. 41. 6d. Ovid. Selections (for the use of Schools). With Introductions and Notes, and an Appendix on the Roman Calendar. By W. RAMSAY, MA Edited by GG RAMSAY, MA Second Edition. . Extra fcap. 8vo. 55.
Seite 251 - The body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten, in the Supper only, after an heavenly and spiritual manner. And the means whereby the body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper is faith.
Seite 61 - By which remotest regions are allied ; Which makes one city of the universe, Where some may gain and all may be supplied. 164 Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go And view the ocean leaning on the sky : From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know And on the lunar world securely pry. 165
Seite 277 - Chaucer. I. The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales; The Knightes Tale; The Nonne Prestes Tale. Edited by R. MORRIS, LL.D. Fifty-first Thousand. Extra fcap. 8vo. zs. 6d. Chancer. II. The Prioresses Tale ; Sir Thopas ; The Monkes Tale ; The Clerkes Tale; The Squieres Tale, $c. Edited by
Seite 92 - Got, while his soul did huddled notions try, And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy. In friendship false, implacable in hate, Resolved to ruin or to rule the state ; To compass this the triple bond he broke, The pillars of the public safety shook, And fitted Israel for a foreign yoke ; Then, seized with fear, yet still affecting fame,
Seite 224 - disperse.' Compare Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, Act i. Sc. 3, where Shylock says of Antonio's wealth, ' I understand, moreover, upon the Rialto, he hath a third at Mexico, a fourth for England, and other ventures he hath, squandered abroad.

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