The Life of Andrew MarvellA. D. English, 1835 - 64 pages |
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... virtue , firm and uncompromising , was never savage ; nor did his full reliance on his own principles make him blind to perceive , or dumb to acknowledge , whatever goodness appeared in men of other faith and allegiance . He was a wit ...
... virtue , firm and uncompromising , was never savage ; nor did his full reliance on his own principles make him blind to perceive , or dumb to acknowledge , whatever goodness appeared in men of other faith and allegiance . He was a wit ...
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Hartley Coleridge. of the Humber , opposite Kingston , lived a lady whose virtue and good sense recommended her to the esteem of Mr. Marvell , as his piety and understanding caused her to take particular notice of him ; from this mutual ...
Hartley Coleridge. of the Humber , opposite Kingston , lived a lady whose virtue and good sense recommended her to the esteem of Mr. Marvell , as his piety and understanding caused her to take particular notice of him ; from this mutual ...
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... virtue and learning , universally lamented by his friends , and the people of Hull in general . The son gives this character of his father , in ' The Rehearsal Transprosed : " He died before the war broke out , having lived with some ...
... virtue and learning , universally lamented by his friends , and the people of Hull in general . The son gives this character of his father , in ' The Rehearsal Transprosed : " He died before the war broke out , having lived with some ...
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... virtue . And the care which your Excellence is pleased to take of him , is no small encouragement , and shall be so represented to him ; but , above all , I shall labour to make him sensible of his duty to GOD ; for then we begin to ...
... virtue . And the care which your Excellence is pleased to take of him , is no small encouragement , and shall be so represented to him ; but , above all , I shall labour to make him sensible of his duty to GOD ; for then we begin to ...
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... virtue pined away to a shadow , by too fondly contemplating its own image , reflected by insidious praise ; as Narcissus , in the fable , consumed his beauty by gazing on its watery shade . In a Court , which held no man to be honest ...
... virtue pined away to a shadow , by too fondly contemplating its own image , reflected by insidious praise ; as Narcissus , in the fable , consumed his beauty by gazing on its watery shade . In a Court , which held no man to be honest ...
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affectionate Friend ANDREW MARVELL answered appears April bill Bishop Bishop of Hereford Bishop of Oxford Captain Thompson character Charles Charles II Church College concerning conscience constituents Corporation of Hull corruption Court Cromwell danger death discourse divine Doctor of Divinity Dryden Duke of Monmouth duty Ecclesiastical Polity elect England English eyes father favour Flecnoe flow'rs GENTLEMEN give Growth of Popery hath HERBERT CROFT honour House of Commons House of Lords humble Servant humour Jesuit John Milton King King's Kingston-upon-Hull knew lamented letter liberty London Lord Bellasis Lord Treasurer Lordship Majesty Majesty's Marvell's member of Parliament Milton mind Naked Truth never occasion ordered Oxenbridge Oxford Parker patriot person Poem poet possessed present published received Rehearsal Transprosed religion render Restoration Satirist says Marvell seems sent shew spirit tears thanks thing of bringing thou thought To-day virtue voted writes young Marvell
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Page 57 - Deserts of vast Eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found; Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song: then worms shall try That long preserved virginity: And your quaint honour turn to dust; And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place, But none I think do there embrace.
Page 56 - To His Coy Mistress Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, Lady, were no crime; We would sit down and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Should'st rubies find: I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the Flood, And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews. My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow; An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes...
Page 52 - And sends the fowls to us in care, On daily visits through the air ; He hangs in shades the orange bright, Like golden lamps in a green night...
Page 58 - And by ill imitating would excel) Might hence presume the whole creation's day To change in scenes, and show it in a play.
Page 57 - But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near, And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found, Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song...
Page 40 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Page 57 - Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball, And tear our pleasures with rough strife Thorough the iron gates of life.
Page 58 - That Majesty which through thy Work doth Reign Draws the Devout, deterring the Profane. And things divine thou treat'st of in such state As them preserves, and thee, inviolate. At once delight and horror on us seize, Thou...
Page 55 - See how the Orient Dew, Shed from the Bosom of the Morn Into the blowing Roses, Yet careless of its Mansion new; For the clear Region where 'twas born Round in its self incloses: And in its little Globes Extent, Frames as it can its native Element.
Page 1 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.