Modern Philology, Volume 20University of Chicago Press, 1923 - Electronic journals Vols. 30-54 include 1932-1956 of "Victorian bibliography," prepared by a committee of the Victorian Literature Group of the Modern Language Association of America. |
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Page 353 - Hark how the sacred Calm, that broods around Bids ev'ry fierce tumultuous Passion cease In still small Accents whisp'ring from the Ground A grateful Earnest of eternal Peace No more with Reason & thyself at Strife ; Give anxious Cares & endless Wishes room But thro* the cool sequester'd Vale of Life Pursue the silent Tenour of thy Doom.
Page 171 - Rousseau, Sir, is a very bad man. I would sooner sign a sentence for his transportation, than that of any felon who has gone from the Old Bailey these many years. Yes, I should like to have him work in the plantations.
Page 115 - ... thought best to winter there. Wherefore we sent out three men southsouthwest, to search if they could find people, who went three days' journey, but could find none.
Page 143 - Macham, which loved her dearely, built a chapell, or hermitage, to bury her in, calling it by the name of Jesus, and caused his name and hers to be written or graven upon the stone of her tombe, and the occasion of their arrivall there.
Page 352 - Him have we seen the Green-wood Side along, While o'er the Heath we hied, our Labours done, Oft as the Woodlark piped her farewell Song, With wistful eyes pursue the setting Sun.
Page 244 - I am satisfied if it cause delight; for delight is the chief, if not the only end of poesy ; instruction can be admitted but in the second place, for poesy only instructs as it delights.
Page 171 - Sir, if you are [9] talking jestingly of this, I don't talk with you. If you mean to be serious, I think him one of the worst of men; a rascal who ought to be hunted out of society, as he has been. Three or four nations have expelled him ; and it is a shame that he is protected in this country.
Page 26 - To think I should a grandmother be made By such a rascal ! — Sure the king forgets When in a pudding, by his mother put, The bastard, by a tinker, on a stile Was dropp'd. — O, good lord Grizzle ! can I bear To see him from a pudding mount the throne ? Or can, oh can, my Huncamunca bear To take a pudding's offspring to her arms ? Griz.
Page 352 - To-day, my lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood...
Page 226 - Before the knowledge of letters, God was known by hieroglyphics. And indeed what are the heavens, the earth, nay, every creature, but Hieroglyphics and Emblems of His glory?