Museum of Foreign Literature and Science, Volumen14

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Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith
E. Littell, 1829
 

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Página 103 - I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
Página 269 - ... of the low fat Bedford Level will have nothing to fear from all the pickaxes of all the levellers of France. As long as our sovereign lord the king, and his faithful subjects, the lords and commons of this realm — the triple cord which no man can break...
Página 158 - Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe. This would make them soon perceive what despicable creatures our common rhymers and play -writers be; and show them what religious, what glorious and magnificent use might be made of poetry, both in divine and human things.
Página 269 - British monarchy, not more limited than fenced by the orders of the state, shall, like the proud Keep of Windsor, rising in the majesty of proportion, and girt with the double belt of its kindred and coeval towers...
Página 266 - ... for the reentitling it to the kingdoms of grace and glory, God did a greater work than the creation ; he was fain to contract divinity to a span, to send a person to die for us, who, of himself, could not die, and was constrained to use rare and mysterious arts to make him capable of dying ; he prepared a person instrumental to his purpose, by sending his Son from his own bosom, a person both God and man, an enigma to all nations and to all sciences ; one that ruled over all the angels, that...
Página 111 - And now, dear little children, who may this story read, To idle, silly, flattering words, I pray you ne'er give heed; Unto an evil counsellor close heart, and ear, and eye, And take a lesson from this tale of the Spider and the Fly.
Página 243 - For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found : surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.
Página 269 - Such are their ideas ; such their religion, and such their law. But as to our country and our race, as long as the wellcompacted structure of our church and state, the sanctuary, the holy of holies of that ancient law, defended by reverence, defended by power, a fortress at once and a temple...
Página 265 - ... for dispensations, and love God and religion less and less, till their old age, instead of a crown of their virtue and perseverance, ends in levity and unprofitable courses, light and useless as the tufted feathers upon the cane, every wind can play with it and abuse it, but no man can make it useful.
Página 111 - The Spider turned him round about, And went into his den, For well he knew the silly Fly Would soon come back again : So he wove a subtle web, In a little corner sly, And set his table ready, To dine upon the Fly.

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