Critical Essays on Some of the Poems of Several English PoetsJames Phillips, 1785 - 386 Seiten |
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... wish when fome fair object moves , And cautious reason what we wish approves , Thy Gorgon front forbids to grasp the prize , And feas are spread between , and mountains rife ! Thy magic arts a thousand phantoms raife , And fancy'd ...
... wish when fome fair object moves , And cautious reason what we wish approves , Thy Gorgon front forbids to grasp the prize , And feas are spread between , and mountains rife ! Thy magic arts a thousand phantoms raife , And fancy'd ...
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... wish in the like fituation . O quis me gelidis fub montibus Hæmi Siftat , et ingenti ramorum protegat umbra ! Such was the merit of this publica- tion , that it was honoured with fome particular marks of approbation . It was publickly ...
... wish in the like fituation . O quis me gelidis fub montibus Hæmi Siftat , et ingenti ramorum protegat umbra ! Such was the merit of this publica- tion , that it was honoured with fome particular marks of approbation . It was publickly ...
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... wish he had avoided . When the publication of the poems , ascribed to Rowley , had engaged very general attention among the literary in- quirers into antiquity , Scott entered the list , and disputed their authenticity in two judicious ...
... wish he had avoided . When the publication of the poems , ascribed to Rowley , had engaged very general attention among the literary in- quirers into antiquity , Scott entered the list , and disputed their authenticity in two judicious ...
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... wishes to cultivate that acquaintance , which the Doctor and his brother seemed no less defirous to im- prove . We parted , but , alas ! we parted In the spring of 1782 , he published his long. to meet no more . tures In Ixvi THE LIFE OF.
... wishes to cultivate that acquaintance , which the Doctor and his brother seemed no less defirous to im- prove . We parted , but , alas ! we parted In the spring of 1782 , he published his long. to meet no more . tures In Ixvi THE LIFE OF.
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... wishes , we suppose , like Capt . Macheath , to fee his ladies well dressed . " Mr. Scott , justly offended at this in- decent treatment , and little accustomed to disguise his sentiments , was in- duced , with inconfiderate warmth , to ...
... wishes , we suppose , like Capt . Macheath , to fee his ladies well dressed . " Mr. Scott , justly offended at this in- decent treatment , and little accustomed to disguise his sentiments , was in- duced , with inconfiderate warmth , to ...
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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...