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... this tormenting kind of self- appropriation , instead of being content with the safe and dignified philosophy of the poet- " Let the gall'd jade wince , our withers are unwrung . " Yet so it has been in the vanity of man vi PREFACE .
... this tormenting kind of self- appropriation , instead of being content with the safe and dignified philosophy of the poet- " Let the gall'd jade wince , our withers are unwrung . " Yet so it has been in the vanity of man vi PREFACE .
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... poet : as that is the case , the odds are against me . Give my respects to the judge , and tell him I will not contend with one that has the advantage of me , and he may fill up the blank as he pleases . " But it is quite a different ...
... poet : as that is the case , the odds are against me . Give my respects to the judge , and tell him I will not contend with one that has the advantage of me , and he may fill up the blank as he pleases . " But it is quite a different ...
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... poets was upwards of fifty years of age when he commenced , in earnest , the grand effort of his genius , the work which " has entwined his name in his land's language . " Vague visions of an epic poem appear to have flitted around his ...
... poets was upwards of fifty years of age when he commenced , in earnest , the grand effort of his genius , the work which " has entwined his name in his land's language . " Vague visions of an epic poem appear to have flitted around his ...
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... poets and historians ! Unques- tionably , Milton and Gibbon would have adorned and elevated , and cast the halo of their genius around any subject of their choice ; but who does not rejoice that the former left Prince Arthur to ...
... poets and historians ! Unques- tionably , Milton and Gibbon would have adorned and elevated , and cast the halo of their genius around any subject of their choice ; but who does not rejoice that the former left Prince Arthur to ...
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... poet- " Honour or shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part - there all the honour lies . " The real estimation , in which a man is held , is measured , not by the office or rank which he occupies , but by his conduct in his ...
... poet- " Honour or shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part - there all the honour lies . " The real estimation , in which a man is held , is measured , not by the office or rank which he occupies , but by his conduct in his ...
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Seite 6 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Seite 84 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Seite 73 - I have brought back no money," cried Moses again. "I have laid it all out in a bargain, and here it is...
Seite 9 - I was the only historian that had at once neglected present power, interest, and authority, and the cry of popular prejudices; and as the subject was suited to every capacity, I expected proportional applause. But miserable was my disappointment: I was assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation; English, Scotch, and Irish, Whig and Tory, churchman and sectary, free-thinker and religionist, patriot and courtier, united in their rage against the man who had presumed to shed...
Seite 89 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Seite 21 - The essays professedly serious, if I have been able to execute my own intentions, will be found exactly conformable to the precepts of Christianity, without any accommodation to the licentiousness and levity of the present age.
Seite 103 - Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death...
Seite 118 - ... keys of the holy church extend, I remit to you all punishment which you deserve in purgatory on their account ; and I restore you to the holy sacraments of the church, to the unity of the faithful, and to that innocence and purity which...
Seite 35 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse, steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands : But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed, Oth.
Seite 118 - May our Lord Jesus Christ have mercy upon thee, and absolve thee by the merits of his most holy passion. And I, by his authority, that of his blessed apostles, Peter and Paul, and of the most holy pope, granted and committed to me in these parts, do absolve thee, first from all ecclesiastical censures, in whatever manner they have been incurred ; then from all thy sins, transgressions, and...