Four Discourses on Subjects Relating to the Amusement of the Stage: Preached at Great St. Mary's Church, Cambridge, on Sunday September 25, and Sunday October 2, 1808; with Copious Supplementary NotesF. Hodson, 1809 - 284 páginas |
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... THOU DIEDST TO SAVE ! So prone are persons when writing poetry to forget themselves , that I find even my late friend , the pious , the Christian , HENRY KIRKE WHITE , in his Poem of the CHRISTIAD , falling into this error . I. I sing ...
... THOU DIEDST TO SAVE ! So prone are persons when writing poetry to forget themselves , that I find even my late friend , the pious , the Christian , HENRY KIRKE WHITE , in his Poem of the CHRISTIAD , falling into this error . I. I sing ...
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... thou , Urania ! who dost still devote Thy nights and days to God's eternal shrine , Whose mild eyes ' lumin'd what Isaiah wrote , Throw o'er thy bard that solemn stole of thine , And clothe him for the fight with energy divine . I shall ...
... thou , Urania ! who dost still devote Thy nights and days to God's eternal shrine , Whose mild eyes ' lumin'd what Isaiah wrote , Throw o'er thy bard that solemn stole of thine , And clothe him for the fight with energy divine . I shall ...
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... thou , O SPIRIT ! that dost prefer Before all temples th ' upright heart and pure , Instruct me , for thou know'st thou from the first Wast present , and with mighty wings outspread , Dove - like sat'st brooding on the vast Abyss , And ...
... thou , O SPIRIT ! that dost prefer Before all temples th ' upright heart and pure , Instruct me , for thou know'st thou from the first Wast present , and with mighty wings outspread , Dove - like sat'st brooding on the vast Abyss , And ...
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... Thou hast said , That none , who ask in faith , should ask in vain . It seems to me that the Poet , in making his addresses to Muses , & c , must confess , either that they mean nothing , in which case they musṭ be considered as common ...
... Thou hast said , That none , who ask in faith , should ask in vain . It seems to me that the Poet , in making his addresses to Muses , & c , must confess , either that they mean nothing , in which case they musṭ be considered as common ...
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... Thou knowest not the strength of liquor - too much on't would work to thy brain , and weaken reason . Sadi . That must be because my skull is not , yet , altogether Christian . A. III . S. 2 . Agnes . When the liquor mounts , then thou ...
... Thou knowest not the strength of liquor - too much on't would work to thy brain , and weaken reason . Sadi . That must be because my skull is not , yet , altogether Christian . A. III . S. 2 . Agnes . When the liquor mounts , then thou ...
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