Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, with Sketches, Biographical and Literary ...Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 - Authors, English |
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... . BY GEORGE BURNETT , Late of Baliol College , Oxford . IN THREE VOLUMES . VOL . III . LONDON : PRINTED FOR LONGMAN , HURST , REES , AND ORMĖ , PATERNOSTER ROW . 1807 . MD LENOX LIBRAR NEWYORK Printed by W. Pople , 22 ,
... . BY GEORGE BURNETT , Late of Baliol College , Oxford . IN THREE VOLUMES . VOL . III . LONDON : PRINTED FOR LONGMAN , HURST , REES , AND ORMĖ , PATERNOSTER ROW . 1807 . MD LENOX LIBRAR NEWYORK Printed by W. Pople , 22 ,
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... Oxford , at this period , to seize all oppor- tunities of wrangling , in order to prepare them- selves , by habitual disputation , for those more serious controversies , in which they expected to be afterwards engaged . The absurd ...
... Oxford , at this period , to seize all oppor- tunities of wrangling , in order to prepare them- selves , by habitual disputation , for those more serious controversies , in which they expected to be afterwards engaged . The absurd ...
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... Oxford or its vici- nity ; and they seized , with their characteris- tic zeal and activity , all opportunities of mak- ing converts among the students , many of whom they contrived to decoy to the Jesuiti- cal colleges abroad . In this ...
... Oxford or its vici- nity ; and they seized , with their characteris- tic zeal and activity , all opportunities of mak- ing converts among the students , many of whom they contrived to decoy to the Jesuiti- cal colleges abroad . In this ...
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... Oxford , at the age of fourteen ; but left college without a degree . He then set out on his travels , applied himself to mili- tary exercises , and returned an accomplished gentleman . On occasion of the promotions preparatory to the ...
... Oxford , at the age of fourteen ; but left college without a degree . He then set out on his travels , applied himself to mili- tary exercises , and returned an accomplished gentleman . On occasion of the promotions preparatory to the ...
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... Oxford , whence , on the recommendation of the prin- cipal of that society , he was taken into the family of the right honourable William Ca- vendish , lord Hardwicke , ( soon after created earl of Devonshire , ) as preceptor to his son ...
... Oxford , whence , on the recommendation of the prin- cipal of that society , he was taken into the family of the right honourable William Ca- vendish , lord Hardwicke , ( soon after created earl of Devonshire , ) as preceptor to his son ...
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Page 181 - God's almightiness, and what He works, and what He suffers to be wrought with high providence in His church; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship.
Page 469 - A just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and humours, and the changes of fortune to which it is subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind.
Page 189 - I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings and from hence had in renown over all Christendom.
Page 179 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer and those other two of Virgil and Tasso 5 are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief, model...
Page 193 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Page 307 - There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler : 6 Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. 7 I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.
Page 134 - Whilst I study to find how I am a microcosm, or little world, I find myself something more than the great. There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Page 159 - But of those who seemed to be somewhat, whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person : for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me...
Page 189 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.
Page 334 - ... that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlow, now at least fifty years ago; and the milkmaid's mother sung an answer to it, which was made by Sir Walter Raleigh in his younger days. They were old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good, I think much better than the strong lines that are now in fashion in this critical age.