Critical Essays on Some of the Poems of Several English PoetsJames Phillips, 1785 - 386 Seiten |
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... racter of patriots , or afferters of freedom : O Liberty , V. 210 . Parent of happiness , celestial born , When the first man became a living foul , His facred genius thou ; be Britain's care ; With her secure , prolong thy lov'd ...
... racter of patriots , or afferters of freedom : O Liberty , V. 210 . Parent of happiness , celestial born , When the first man became a living foul , His facred genius thou ; be Britain's care ; With her secure , prolong thy lov'd ...
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... Mr. Mason observes of the language in this part , that it has a dorick delicacy . It has , indeed , what I should rather term a happy rufticity , un- degraded degraded by meanness : from fuch a cha- racter as 232 CRITICAL ESSAYS .
... Mr. Mason observes of the language in this part , that it has a dorick delicacy . It has , indeed , what I should rather term a happy rufticity , un- degraded degraded by meanness : from fuch a cha- racter as 232 CRITICAL ESSAYS .
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John Scott, John Hoole. degraded by meanness : from fuch a cha- racter as is represented speaking , a hoary- " headed fwain , ' one should reasonably ex- pect fuch phrases as thefe , Hard by yon wood , & c . ' wayward fancies , ' " 6 6 ...
John Scott, John Hoole. degraded by meanness : from fuch a cha- racter as is represented speaking , a hoary- " headed fwain , ' one should reasonably ex- pect fuch phrases as thefe , Hard by yon wood , & c . ' wayward fancies , ' " 6 6 ...
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... racter ; and to Dr. Johnson's opinion of them , there is no great reason to object . Particular criticism cannot be expected to pursue her task regularly , through a Poem of fuch length ; but the exami- nation of fome detached paffages ...
... racter ; and to Dr. Johnson's opinion of them , there is no great reason to object . Particular criticism cannot be expected to pursue her task regularly , through a Poem of fuch length ; but the exami- nation of fome detached paffages ...
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... racter , it fufficiently demonftrates the uncommon accuracy of his obfervation . No author , ancient or modern , ( so far as I know ) has described the grand elec- trical phenonema of the atmosphere , with fuch dignity and precision ...
... racter , it fufficiently demonftrates the uncommon accuracy of his obfervation . No author , ancient or modern , ( so far as I know ) has described the grand elec- trical phenonema of the atmosphere , with fuch dignity and precision ...
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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...