Critical Essays on Some of the Poems of Several English PoetsJames Phillips, 1785 - 386 Seiten |
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... circumstance of his having presided over the first lessons of young Scott , who does not however appear to have given any early promises of genius or ability ; nor are we told what progress he made under the instructions of his tutor ...
... circumstance of his having presided over the first lessons of young Scott , who does not however appear to have given any early promises of genius or ability ; nor are we told what progress he made under the instructions of his tutor ...
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... circumstance he speaks in his Ode addressed to that gentleman . ' Twas when Misfortune's stroke severe , And Melancholy's prefence drear , Had made my Amwell's groves displease , That thine my weary steps receiv'd , And much the change ...
... circumstance he speaks in his Ode addressed to that gentleman . ' Twas when Misfortune's stroke severe , And Melancholy's prefence drear , Had made my Amwell's groves displease , That thine my weary steps receiv'd , And much the change ...
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... circumstances , as , in my opinion , no versification , however harmonious , can make poetical : these lines may , in fome measure , shew the force of my objections . Old oaken stubs tough faplings there adorn , There hedge - row ...
... circumstances , as , in my opinion , no versification , however harmonious , can make poetical : these lines may , in fome measure , shew the force of my objections . Old oaken stubs tough faplings there adorn , There hedge - row ...
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... circumstances as might give them an air of local truth . This couplet is happily inserted in al- lufion to the Eastern fable . Soft as the night bird's amorous music flows In Zibet's garden when she woos the rose . ZERAD , ! The ...
... circumstances as might give them an air of local truth . This couplet is happily inserted in al- lufion to the Eastern fable . Soft as the night bird's amorous music flows In Zibet's garden when she woos the rose . ZERAD , ! The ...
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... circumstances not very dif- fimilar from the disappearance of the spirit of the Cape in Camöens . The two Epistles that follow the odes are written in a very familiar and easy strain of verfification . The second Epistle describes the ...
... circumstances not very dif- fimilar from the disappearance of the spirit of the Cape in Camöens . The two Epistles that follow the odes are written in a very familiar and easy strain of verfification . The second Epistle describes the ...
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Seite 57 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed. And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Seite 246 - 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 44 - 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 263 - Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye, Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired, Where grey-beard mirth and smiling toil retired, Where village statesmen talked with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round.
Seite 261 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
Seite 226 - 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 58 - There entertain him all the saints above In solemn troops, and sweet societies, That sing, and singing, in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes.
Seite 48 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days : But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise...
Seite 195 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th
Seite 250 - 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...