Sir Thomas More, Or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society, Volume 1J. Murray, 1829 - 868 pages "...[A] calm exposition of [Southey's] mature social and political convictions: rejection of the Catholic claims and of constitutional reform, support for high taxation to redistribute wealth, and so on. The conversations are conducted with the ghost of Sir Thomas More, whose Utopia was a remote ancestor of pantisocracy. They are set in the neighbourhood of Keswick, and the beauty of the countryside tempers the generally gloomy tone of the conversation, as does the quiet of his splendid library." -- DNB. |
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... duty , to the world evinced When testifying so by outward sign Its deep and inmost sense . But what I can Is rendered piously , prefixing here Thy perfect lineaments , two centuries Before thy birth by Holbein's happy hand Prefigured ...
... duty , to the world evinced When testifying so by outward sign Its deep and inmost sense . But what I can Is rendered piously , prefixing here Thy perfect lineaments , two centuries Before thy birth by Holbein's happy hand Prefigured ...
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... in the sear , the yellow leaf . And yet , ( no wish is nearer to my heart ; ) One arduous labour more , as unto thee In duty bound , full fain would I compleat , ( So Heaven permit , ) recording faithfully The heroic DEDICATION . vii.
... in the sear , the yellow leaf . And yet , ( no wish is nearer to my heart ; ) One arduous labour more , as unto thee In duty bound , full fain would I compleat , ( So Heaven permit , ) recording faithfully The heroic DEDICATION . vii.
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Robert Southey. policy to entrust men with power in the State whose bounden religious duty it is to subvert , if they can , the Church . These opinions I have uniformly held since the question was brought forward in the first year of the ...
Robert Southey. policy to entrust men with power in the State whose bounden religious duty it is to subvert , if they can , the Church . These opinions I have uniformly held since the question was brought forward in the first year of the ...
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Robert Southey. Government , by the grossest neglect of its paramount duty , has suffered them to re- main , I have at all times felt , and spoken , as a man who abhors oppression , and ear- nestly wishes for every possible improve- ment ...
Robert Southey. Government , by the grossest neglect of its paramount duty , has suffered them to re- main , I have at all times felt , and spoken , as a man who abhors oppression , and ear- nestly wishes for every possible improve- ment ...
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... duties which root us to our native soil . I envy the Turks for their sedentary constitutions , which seem no more to require exercise than an oyster does , or a toad in a stone . respect , I am by disposition as true a Turk as the Grand ...
... duties which root us to our native soil . I envy the Turks for their sedentary constitutions , which seem no more to require exercise than an oyster does , or a toad in a stone . respect , I am by disposition as true a Turk as the Grand ...
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Page 384 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Page 329 - Verily, I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, shall in no wise enter therein.
Page 103 - ... rejects the lore Of nicely-calculated less or more ; So deemed the man who fashioned for the sense These lofty pillars, spread that branching roof Self-poised, and scooped into ten thousand cells, Where light and shade repose, where music dwells Lingering — and wandering on as loth to die; Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality.
Page 83 - Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt.
Page 241 - Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Page 308 - I think not that their witchcraft is any real power; but yet that they are justly punished for the false belief they have that they can do such mischief, joined with their purpose to do it if they can; their trade being nearer to a new religion than to a craft or science.
Page 198 - For he that once hath missed the right way, The further he doth goe, the further he doth stray. 44 Then do no further goe, no further stray; But here lie downe, and to thy rest betake, Th' ill to prevent, that life ensewen may.
Page 12 - Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou comest in such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane: O, answer me!
Page 51 - From all sedition, privy conspiracy, and rebellion ; from all false doctrine, heresy, and schism; from hardness of heart, and contempt of Thy Word and Commandment, Good Lord, deliver us...
Page 325 - Sir, quoth he, and I may remember the building of Tenterton steeple, and I may remember when there was no steeple at all there. And before that Tenterton steeple was in building, there was no manner of speaking of any flats or sands that stopped the haven ; and therefore I think that Tenterton steeple is the cause of the destroying and decay of Sandwich haven.