The Doctor, &c, Volumes 1-2Harper & brothers, 1836 - 220 pages |
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AGNOLO FIRENZUOLA appear astrology Bacon Beaumont and Fletcher beauty bells BEN JONSON BENEDETTO VARCHI better Bhow Begum Bishop blessing called cause CHAPTER character church CONCERNING course Daniel death Deborah delight disease doctor Doncaster doth earth effect English evil eyes father feeling flea GEORGE WITHER hand happy hath head heart Heaven honour human humour Ingleton INTERCHAPTER Jane Shore kind king knew knowledge lady learned less live look Lord LORD BYRON manner marriage matter mind moral nature never opinion passed perfect perhaps persons Peter Hopkins pleasure poet portrait present reader reason replied river Don says sense sermon sometimes soul speak tell THAXTED thee things Thomas Mace thou thought tion town unto Urim and Thummim verses William Dove wise wish words
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Page 164 - With solemn touches troubled thoughts, and chase Anguish, and doubt, and fear, and sorrow, and pain, From mortal or immortal minds.
Page 72 - Never indeed was any man more contented with doing his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him.
Page 47 - Coleridge and myself walked back to Stowey that evening, and his voice sounded high "Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute," as we passed through echoing grove, by fairy stream or waterfall, gleaming in the summer moonlight!
Page 110 - My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee, so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding ; if thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures ; then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.
Page 96 - His observations, and the thoughts his mind Had dealt with — I will here record in verse; Which, if with truth it correspond, and sink Or rise as venerable Nature leads, The high and tender Muses shall accept With gracious smile, deliberately pleased, And listening Time reward with sacred praise.
Page vii - Doric dialect, extemporanean style, tautologies, apish imitation, a rhapsody of rags gathered together from several dung-hills, excrements of authors, toys and fopperies confusedly tumbled out, without art, invention, judgment, wit, learning, harsh, raw, rude, phantastical, absurd, insolent, indiscreet, ill-composed, indigested, vain, scurrile, idle, dull, and dry; I confess all ('tis partly affected), thou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.