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Page vii
... success of the " Lives " lies in the fact that they are biographical records , narrated with sprightly vigour and discriminating intelligence ; not mere critical dissertations , uninteresting to the uninitiated , subject to the ...
... success of the " Lives " lies in the fact that they are biographical records , narrated with sprightly vigour and discriminating intelligence ; not mere critical dissertations , uninteresting to the uninitiated , subject to the ...
Page xi
... success he married " the lass he'd left behind him , " who at the opportune moment had deserted the romantic loneliness of " Preston Mill " for the domestic bliss which she felt sure awaited her in " Lunnon . " Time passed , and just as ...
... success he married " the lass he'd left behind him , " who at the opportune moment had deserted the romantic loneliness of " Preston Mill " for the domestic bliss which she felt sure awaited her in " Lunnon . " Time passed , and just as ...
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... success , and the author lost no time in following them up with equally readable and , as it proved , equally popular biographies - ultimately com- pleted with the issue of the sixth volume . An important edition , in eight volumes , of ...
... success , and the author lost no time in following them up with equally readable and , as it proved , equally popular biographies - ultimately com- pleted with the issue of the sixth volume . An important edition , in eight volumes , of ...
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... successful art brings to a nation . But there was a strong feeling entertained against them by foreign princes and foreign artists . They were denounced by the ancient church as incurable heretics ; they were dreaded by sea and land ...
... successful art brings to a nation . But there was a strong feeling entertained against them by foreign princes and foreign artists . They were denounced by the ancient church as incurable heretics ; they were dreaded by sea and land ...
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... success . What money failed to purchase , or patronage to secure , was obtained by chance . The Infanta of Spain sent , as her representative to the English court , the accomplished Rubens . He was welcomed with great honour , and ...
... success . What money failed to purchase , or patronage to secure , was obtained by chance . The Infanta of Spain sent , as her representative to the English court , the accomplished Rubens . He was welcomed with great honour , and ...
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Page 309 - Little Lamb, who made thee ? Dost thou know who made thee ? Gave thee life and bid thee feed, By the stream and o'er the mead ? Gave thee clothing of delight, Softest clothing, woolly, bright ? Gave thee such a tender voice, Making all the vales rejoice? Little Lamb, who made thee ? Dost thou know who made thee ? Little Lamb, I'll tell thee, Little Lamb, I'll tell thee: He is called by thy name, For He calls Himself a Lamb. He is meek, and He is mild; He became a little child. I a child, and thou...
Page 277 - What the hammer? What the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? What dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp? When the stars threw down their spears, And water'd heaven with their tears, Did He smile His work to see? Did He who made the lamb make thee...
Page 277 - TIGER! Tiger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire? And what shoulder, and what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
Page 276 - Whether in Heaven ye wander fair, Or the green corners of the earth, Or the blue regions of the air Where the melodious winds have birth...
Page 281 - PIPING down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: "Pipe a song about a Lamb!" So I piped with merry cheer. "Piper, pipe that song again,
Page 210 - Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind : His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand : His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart...
Page 281 - Pipe a song about a Lamb!" So I piped with merry cheer. "Piper, pipe that song again"; So I piped: he wept to hear. "Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe; Sing thy songs of happy cheer!" So I sang the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. "Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read.
Page 209 - The only dedication I ever made was to my brother, because I loved him better than most other men. He is since dead. Permit me to inscribe this Poem to you.
Page xxxiv - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things.
Page 302 - So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than the beginning...