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" Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In Chorus or Iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life; High actions, and high passions best... "
Chats about Books: Poets and Novelists - Page 115
by Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1883 - 360 pages
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Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1753 - 356 pages
...teachers befl Of moral prudence, with delight receiv'd In brief fententious precepts, while they treat 264 Of fate, and chance, and change in human life ; High actions, and high paffions heft defcribing : Thence 262. In Chorus «r Iambic,'] Theft may be faid to be the two conftituent...
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The Works of the British Poets, Volume 5

Robert Anderson - 1795 - 740 pages
...teachers beft Of moral prudence, with delight receiv'd In btief fcntentiou* precepts, while they treat Of Fate, and Chance, and change in human life ; High actions, and high paflions bell defcribing : Thence to the famous orators repair, Thofe ancient, whofe refiftlefi eloquence...
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Poems, Volume 1

John Penn - 1801 - 348 pages
...teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life, High actions and high passions best describing. PAKADISI DRAMATIS PERSONS. MEN. ALFRED King of England. EDM UKD, the Son and Heir of Alfred, then very...
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The poetical works of John Milton, with the life of the author ..., Volumes 3-4

John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight receiv'd In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of Fate, and Chance, and change in human life ; High actions, and high passions best describing : Thence to the famous orators repair, 1 hose ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that...
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Cowley, Denham, Milton

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight receiv'd In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life. High actions and high passions best describing: Thence to the famous orators repair, Tlio>e ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that...
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Paradise regained. An account of Cowper's writings, relating to Milton. A ...

William Hayley - 1810 - 418 pages
...teachers best Of moral pnjdence, with delight receiv'd In brjef sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life, High actions and high passions best describing: Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the arsenal,...
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Cowper's Milton [the poetical works, with life, notes and tr. by W. Cowper ...

John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight receivM In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life, High actions and high passions best describing: Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the arsenal,...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 30

1831 - 1008 pages
...teachers best Of moral wisdom, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they teach Of fate, and chance, and change in human life, High actions and high passimu best describing !" These last two lines how pregnant! They involve the whole Philosophy of...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal

1832 - 614 pages
...teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received, In brief, sententious precepts, while they treat Of Fate, and chance, and change in human life, High actions and high passions best describing." Par. Regained, book IT. This description, it must be owned, is more suited to the ancient than the...
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The North American Review, Volume 73

1851 - 568 pages
...teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life, High actions and high passions best describing." A later age brings forth the polished Virgil, whose taste and elegance evince his careful study of...
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