Critical Essays on Some of the Poems of Several English PoetsJames Phillips, 1785 - 386 Seiten |
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... easy indolence I rove ; There the wing'd breeze the lifted sash pervades , Each breath is music , vocal all the shades . Charm'd with the foothing found , at ease reclin'd , To fancy's pleasing power I yield my mind : And now enchanted ...
... easy indolence I rove ; There the wing'd breeze the lifted sash pervades , Each breath is music , vocal all the shades . Charm'd with the foothing found , at ease reclin'd , To fancy's pleasing power I yield my mind : And now enchanted ...
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... easy verfification and good painting , and for several natural obfer- vations of the poet , among which may be given the following . Thin mifts hung hovering o'er the distant trees , Or roll'd from off the fields before the breeze ...
... easy verfification and good painting , and for several natural obfer- vations of the poet , among which may be given the following . Thin mifts hung hovering o'er the distant trees , Or roll'd from off the fields before the breeze ...
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... easy and affect . ing . Beside his gate , beneath the lofty tree , Old Thyrfis ' well known feat I vacant see ' ; There , while his prattling offspring round him play'd , He oft , to please them , toys of oziers made : That feat his ...
... easy and affect . ing . Beside his gate , beneath the lofty tree , Old Thyrfis ' well known feat I vacant see ' ; There , while his prattling offspring round him play'd , He oft , to please them , toys of oziers made : That feat his ...
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... easy strain of verfification . The second Epistle describes the oc- cupations and amusements of a contem- plative mind in the country , and may be considered as a picture of the author's own manner of living . The 1 1 ! : The Effay on ...
... easy strain of verfification . The second Epistle describes the oc- cupations and amusements of a contem- plative mind in the country , and may be considered as a picture of the author's own manner of living . The 1 1 ! : The Effay on ...
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... easy poets , was a very unskilful reader . Scott was a great lover of music , but had no practical knowledge of it . He preferred the time for poetical compofi- tion , when the rest of the family were in bed ; and it was frequently his ...
... easy poets , was a very unskilful reader . Scott was a great lover of music , but had no practical knowledge of it . He preferred the time for poetical compofi- tion , when the rest of the family were in bed ; and it was frequently his ...
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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...