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... Society at the Restoration -- Butler's Life - John Dryden -- French Taste of the Court-- Comedies and rhymed Tragedies -- Life and Works of Dryden -- Dramas-- Annus Mirabilis -- Absalom and Achitophel -- Religio Laici - Hind and Panther ...
... Society at the Restoration -- Butler's Life - John Dryden -- French Taste of the Court-- Comedies and rhymed Tragedies -- Life and Works of Dryden -- Dramas-- Annus Mirabilis -- Absalom and Achitophel -- Religio Laici - Hind and Panther ...
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... societies , or mestiers , which play so great a part in the municipal history of the Middle Ages . The somewhat cossu richness of their equipment , their knives hafted with silver , their grave and citizen - like bearing— all is in ...
... societies , or mestiers , which play so great a part in the municipal history of the Middle Ages . The somewhat cossu richness of their equipment , their knives hafted with silver , their grave and citizen - like bearing— all is in ...
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... society . This proposal is unanimously adopted ; and nothing can be finer than the mix- ture of fun and good sense with which honest Harry Bailey , the Host , sways the merry sceptre of his temporary sovereignty . This then is the ...
... society . This proposal is unanimously adopted ; and nothing can be finer than the mix- ture of fun and good sense with which honest Harry Bailey , the Host , sways the merry sceptre of his temporary sovereignty . This then is the ...
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... society of young men and women of rank , who have shut themselves up in a most luxurious and beau- tiful retreat on the banks of the Arno , in order to escape the in- fection of the terrible plague then ravaging Florence . It If we ...
... society of young men and women of rank , who have shut themselves up in a most luxurious and beau- tiful retreat on the banks of the Arno , in order to escape the in- fection of the terrible plague then ravaging Florence . It If we ...
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... society of the court . This honourable banishment un- der the disguise of advancement was perhaps an ingenious con- trivance of the profound and tortuous policy of Spenser's great opponent , Burleigh , who thus removed the dangerous ...
... society of the court . This honourable banishment un- der the disguise of advancement was perhaps an ingenious con- trivance of the profound and tortuous policy of Spenser's great opponent , Burleigh , who thus removed the dangerous ...
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Seite 41 - Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine: I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.
Seite 297 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Seite 187 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Seite 288 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berccau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Seite 231 - I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives, to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Seite 239 - Peace to all such! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent, and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Seite 242 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Seite 127 - Invest me in my motley ; give me leave To speak my mind, and I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of the infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine.
Seite 151 - With antic pillars massy proof, And storied windows, richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow To the full-voiced choir below, In service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes.
Seite 116 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!