Critical Essays on Some of the Poems of Several English PoetsJames Phillips, 1785 - 386 Seiten |
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... pleasing to those who are familiar with the scenes fo elegantly painted . He employed his pen at times in vari- ous anonymous pamphlets and effays , on mifcellaneous fubjects , and particularly in vindication of fuch political princi ...
... pleasing to those who are familiar with the scenes fo elegantly painted . He employed his pen at times in vari- ous anonymous pamphlets and effays , on mifcellaneous fubjects , and particularly in vindication of fuch political princi ...
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... rainy feasons , must overflow , as well as other rivers . Water , when level with its banks , always ap- pears moft pleasing ; and that this was the the cafe with the Thames , would have been fufficiently 24 CRITICAL ESSAYS .
... rainy feasons , must overflow , as well as other rivers . Water , when level with its banks , always ap- pears moft pleasing ; and that this was the the cafe with the Thames , would have been fufficiently 24 CRITICAL ESSAYS .
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... pleasing than to confirm it . Refpecting the Cooper's Hill , I was reluctantly neceffitated to op- pofe high authorities : respecting the Lycidas , I am happy to coincide with the judgment of most of my predeceffors . Between the two ...
... pleasing than to confirm it . Refpecting the Cooper's Hill , I was reluctantly neceffitated to op- pofe high authorities : respecting the Lycidas , I am happy to coincide with the judgment of most of my predeceffors . Between the two ...
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... pleasing imagery , that the tafk of felection is perplexing . Much of it has been al- ready tranfcribed , and among the paf- fages omitted , are several not at all in- ferior . Nothing can be more graphi- cal than the following ...
... pleasing imagery , that the tafk of felection is perplexing . Much of it has been al- ready tranfcribed , and among the paf- fages omitted , are several not at all in- ferior . Nothing can be more graphi- cal than the following ...
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... pleasing imagery , that the task of felection is perplexing . Much of it has been al- ready tranfcribed , and among the paf- fages omitted , are several not at all in- ferior . Nothing can be more graphi- cal than the following ...
... pleasing imagery , that the task of felection is perplexing . Much of it has been al- ready tranfcribed , and among the paf- fages omitted , are several not at all in- ferior . Nothing can be more graphi- cal than the following ...
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Seite 149 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Seite 38 - And all their echoes, mourn. The willows and the hazel copses green Shall now no more be seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays. As killing as the canker to the rose...
Seite 192 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Seite 156 - The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Seite 245 - When time advances, and when lovers fail, She then shines forth, solicitous to bless, In all the glaring impotence of dress.
Seite 214 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...
Seite 218 - Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man...
Seite 100 - Be full, ye courts ; be great who will ; Search for peace with all your skill ; Open wide the lofty door, Seek her on the marble floor ; In vain...
Seite 229 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.
Seite 161 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th