Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition, Addressed to His SonBradford and Inskeep, 1809 - 363 Seiten |
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... action connected with so- cial life , but when the grounds and principles on which those rules are founded constitute an object of anxious inquiry . Men have long agreed in regarding some things as pleasing ; but not satisfied with this ...
... action connected with so- cial life , but when the grounds and principles on which those rules are founded constitute an object of anxious inquiry . Men have long agreed in regarding some things as pleasing ; but not satisfied with this ...
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... action excites our passions . It is of but little consequence whether the subject is fiction or reality . Robinson Crusoe , George Barnwell , and even Don Quixote , not to speak of the incompara- ble novel of Cecilia , interest , I will ...
... action excites our passions . It is of but little consequence whether the subject is fiction or reality . Robinson Crusoe , George Barnwell , and even Don Quixote , not to speak of the incompara- ble novel of Cecilia , interest , I will ...
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... action " With wrinkled brows , with nods , with rolling eyes . " I saw a smith stand with his hammer thus , " The whilst his iron did on his anvil cool , " With open mouth swallowing a taylor's news ; " Who with his shears and measure ...
... action " With wrinkled brows , with nods , with rolling eyes . " I saw a smith stand with his hammer thus , " The whilst his iron did on his anvil cool , " With open mouth swallowing a taylor's news ; " Who with his shears and measure ...
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... action , and it is only when in some degree occupied or engaged , that we feel the pleasure of living . Violent action or agitation , on the contrary , pains and fatigues . Hence the moderate excitement of the passions on the sight of a ...
... action , and it is only when in some degree occupied or engaged , that we feel the pleasure of living . Violent action or agitation , on the contrary , pains and fatigues . Hence the moderate excitement of the passions on the sight of a ...
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... Action his words , and words his action grace . " If Heaven , great chiefs , had heard our common prayer , " These arms had caus'd no quarrel for an heir , " Still great Achilles had his own possess'd , " And we with great Achilles had ...
... Action his words , and words his action grace . " If Heaven , great chiefs , had heard our common prayer , " These arms had caus'd no quarrel for an heir , " Still great Achilles had his own possess'd , " And we with great Achilles had ...
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Seite 76 - In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease, because they are few, and those that look out of the windows, be darkened ; And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low...
Seite 15 - I ran it through, even from my boyish days, To the very moment that he bade me tell it : Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents, by flood, and field ; Of hair-breadth scapes i...
Seite 23 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
Seite 298 - Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede. Thou dost drink, and dance, and sing, Happier than the happiest king ! All the fields which thou dost see, All the plants belong to thee, All that summer hours produce. Fertile made with early juice : Man for thee does sow and plough ; Farmer he and landlord thou ! Thou dost innocently joy, Nor does thy luxury destroy.
Seite 69 - Are they Hebrews ? so am I. Are they Israelites ? so am I ; Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. Are they the ministers of Christ ? (I speak as a fool,) I am more ; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft...
Seite 78 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay — There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view ; I knew him well, and every truant knew: Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he...
Seite 273 - Honour and shame from no Condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Seite 122 - Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more ; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep...
Seite 206 - Of Gilbert Walmsley, thus presented to my mind, let me indulge myself in the remembrance. I knew him very early ; he was one of the first friends that literature procured me, and I hope that at least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me.
Seite 74 - Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth.