Notes, Theological, Political, and MiscellaneousE. Moxon, 1853 - 415 pages |
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Page 86 - of the mouth of very babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength, because of thine enemies; that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. To the dispensations of the twilight dawn, to the first messengers of the redeeming word, the yet lisping utterers of light and life, a strength and
Page 310 - 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 houourablest things—not presuming to sing
Page 256 - Contrast this letter with that to the Countess of Bedford. There is, perhaps, more wit and more * " Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a live-long monument; And, there sepulchred, in such state dost lie, That kings for such a tomb might wish to die.
Page 397 - and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged.—• Genesis viii. 1. I do not recollect the Hebrew word rendered " assuaged," but I will consult my learned friend Hyman
Page 86 - is, less remote from salvation. TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY. COLLECT. —that they, plenteously bringing forth the fruit of good works, may of thee be plenteously rewarded. Rather—" that with that enlarged capacity, which without thee we cannot acquire, there may likewise be an increase of the gift, which from thee alone we can wholly receive.
Page 82 - to us and for us. That was the true light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. But as many as received
Page 310 - If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man's being the good poet without being first a good man. Dedication to the Fox.* Ben Jonson has borrowed this just and noble sentiment from Strabo.
Page 268 - 48. This is made good by experience, which can from the ashes of a plant revive the plant, and from its cinders recall it into its stalks and leaves again. Stuff. This was, I believe, some lying boast of Paracelsus, which the good Sir TB has swallowed for a fact. Part II.
Page 155 - and by our British poets excellently described. Thus— Adam, now ope thine eyes, and first behold Th' effects which thy original crime hath wrought In some, to spring from thee, who never touched Th' excepted tree, nor with the snake conspired, Nor sinned thy
Page 266 - I could never content my contemplation with those general pieces of wonder, the flux and reflux of the sea, the increase of Nile, the conversion of the needle to the north; and have studied to match and parallel those in the more obvious and