Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell: Astraea Redux.--Annus Mirabilis.--Absalom and Achitophel.--Religio Laici.--The Hind and the PantherClarendon Press, 1893 - 311 Seiten |
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... 5 How shall I then begin or where conclude To draw a fame so truly circular ? For in a round what order can be shewed , Where all the parts so equal - perfect are ? 6 His grandeur he derived from Heaven alone , For B 2.
... 5 How shall I then begin or where conclude To draw a fame so truly circular ? For in a round what order can be shewed , Where all the parts so equal - perfect are ? 6 His grandeur he derived from Heaven alone , For B 2.
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... round him the pleased audience clap their wings . And now , Sir , ' tis time I should relieve you from the tedious length of this account . You have better and more profitable employment for your hours , and I wrong the 30 public to ...
... round him the pleased audience clap their wings . And now , Sir , ' tis time I should relieve you from the tedious length of this account . You have better and more profitable employment for your hours , and I wrong the 30 public to ...
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... round of greater years begun , New influence from his walks of light did bring . 19 Victorious York did first with famed success To his known valour make the Dutch give place ; Thus Heaven our Monarch's fortune did confess , Beginning ...
... round of greater years begun , New influence from his walks of light did bring . 19 Victorious York did first with famed success To his known valour make the Dutch give place ; Thus Heaven our Monarch's fortune did confess , Beginning ...
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... round about their murdering cannon lay , At once to threaten and invite the eye . 27 Fiercer than cannon and than rocks more hard , The English undertake the unequal war : Seven ships alone , by which the port is barred , Besiege the ...
... round about their murdering cannon lay , At once to threaten and invite the eye . 27 Fiercer than cannon and than rocks more hard , The English undertake the unequal war : Seven ships alone , by which the port is barred , Besiege the ...
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... round , With one paw seizes on his trembling horse , And with the other tears him to the ground . • The simile is Virgil's : ' Vestigia retro improperata refert . ' [ More fully and correctly : - Haud aliter retro dubius vestigia Turnus ...
... round , With one paw seizes on his trembling horse , And with the other tears him to the ground . • The simile is Virgil's : ' Vestigia retro improperata refert . ' [ More fully and correctly : - Haud aliter retro dubius vestigia Turnus ...
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Absalom and Achitophel Albion and Albanius Annus Mirabilis Astræa Redux battle bold called changed Charles Charles II Church of England common Compare conscience Cromwell David death dedicated Derrick divine doctrine Dryden refers Duchess Duke of Guise Duke of York Dutch Earl edition of 1688 editors English faith fame fate father fear fight fire fleet foes France French friends grace Heaven Hind Holland honour Hudibras including Scott Jebusites kind King laws London Lord means never numbers o'er original edition Ovid Palamon and Arcite Panther peace plain play poet Pope Popish Plot praise Preface Prince printed published Queen reign Religio Laici rest Restoration rhymes Roman Catholic sacred Satire says Scripture sects sense Shaftesbury Shakespeare soul sovereign spelling spelt stanza thou thought Threnodia Augustalis throne Tis true translation Twas verse Virgil wind wings word written
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Seite 92 - A fiery soul which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay 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.
Seite 289 - I AB do solemnly and sincerely in the presence of God profess, testify and declare, that I do believe that in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper there is not any transubstantiation of the elements of bread and wine into the body and blood of . Christ, at or after the consecration thereof by any person whatsoever...
Seite 286 - Full little thought they then That the mighty Pan Was kindly come to live with them below; Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, Was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.
Seite 272 - And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass he lived.
Seite 131 - Dim as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul: and as on high, Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here; so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere; So pale grows reason at religion's sight; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light.
Seite x - For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer; and for ten impressions, which his works have had in so many successive years, yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, Not being of God, he could not stand.
Seite 278 - 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? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Seite 102 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Seite 288 - The Body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten, in the Supper, only after an heavenly and spiritual manner. And the mean whereby the Body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper is Faith.
Seite 293 - Though without number still, amidst the hall Of that infernal court. But far within, And in their own dimensions like themselves, The great seraphic lords and cherubim In close recess and secret conclave sat, A thousand demigods on golden seats, Frequent and full.