The Bardiad: A Poem ; in Two CantosLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, etc., etc., Originally published as an ode.-Pref., 1823 - 286 Seiten |
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... learned Ge- senius , reduce many exquisite passages to the ap- pearance of prose ; or , with our own accurate Prelate , take a kind of central path between the two ; we are entirely constrained to acknowledge that the whole compass of ...
... learned Ge- senius , reduce many exquisite passages to the ap- pearance of prose ; or , with our own accurate Prelate , take a kind of central path between the two ; we are entirely constrained to acknowledge that the whole compass of ...
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... learned SYNTAX took his Northern tour , Sought , as he journey'd , in complete grotesque , And when he found not , made " the picturesque . " Satire and wit , tho brighten'd up with rhyme , Are seldom read , by choice , a second time ...
... learned SYNTAX took his Northern tour , Sought , as he journey'd , in complete grotesque , And when he found not , made " the picturesque . " Satire and wit , tho brighten'd up with rhyme , Are seldom read , by choice , a second time ...
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... learned from the public prints , that Mr. Shelley and Mr. Williams were lost when sailing , by boat , in the vicinity of Pisa . I leave the reader to make his own reflections . I Or baser SHELLEY , on the gates of hell , THE BARDIAD . 49.
... learned from the public prints , that Mr. Shelley and Mr. Williams were lost when sailing , by boat , in the vicinity of Pisa . I leave the reader to make his own reflections . I Or baser SHELLEY , on the gates of hell , THE BARDIAD . 49.
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... learned Sorbonist , And weave fine cobwebs , fit for skull That's empty , when the moon is full ; Butler . Such as take lodgings in a head , That's to be let , unfurnished . " Butler . " What Adam dreamt of , when his bride Came from ...
... learned Sorbonist , And weave fine cobwebs , fit for skull That's empty , when the moon is full ; Butler . Such as take lodgings in a head , That's to be let , unfurnished . " Butler . " What Adam dreamt of , when his bride Came from ...
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... learned the hymns of heaven to sing ; With many a song of mystic lore , Rude as when sung in days of yore . " His were the snowy flocks , that strayed Adown Glen - Airtney's forest glade ; And his the goat , and chesnut hind , Where ...
... learned the hymns of heaven to sing ; With many a song of mystic lore , Rude as when sung in days of yore . " His were the snowy flocks , that strayed Adown Glen - Airtney's forest glade ; And his the goat , and chesnut hind , Where ...
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Amorites awful Bard beam beauty blast blessings Book of Job breast breath bright bursting Castle of Indolence CHARLOTTE SMITH charm Chaucer clouds critical dark death deep divine dread earth enchanting epic poetry Ettrick fairy fancy Fingal fire flower gales genius glow grief hand harmony harp hath heart heaven Hebrew Henriade Heshbon hill Hope king Knight's Tale language light lone Lord lyre melody mind Minstrel Moab moon mountain Muse nature never night numbers o'er Ossian pale Palemon passion Poem poetical Poetry Poets praise pride rapture reader rise rock round sacred scene seraphic Sihon sing smile soft song sorrow soul sound Spenser spirit stars storm strain sublime sweet taste tear tell thee thine thou shalt thought trembling unto verse voice wandering wave wild wind wings wretch
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Seite 190 - The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty Go<J of Jacob : (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel...
Seite 201 - Who can count the dust of Jacob, And the number of the fourth part of Israel ? Let me die the death of the righteous, And let my last end be like his...
Seite 187 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar...
Seite 176 - Less than a god they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so well. What passion cannot Music raise and quell?
Seite 175 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.
Seite 196 - See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me : I kill, and I make alive ; I wound, and I heal : neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
Seite 190 - Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion. Who shall rouse him up? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Seite 100 - But hark ! a rap comes gently to the door ; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad cam' o'er the moor, To do some errands, and convoy her hame. The wily mother sees the conscious flame Sparkle in Jenny's e'e, and flush her cheek ; With heart-struck anxious care, inquires his name, While Jenny hafflins is afraid to speak : Weel pleased the mother hears it's nae wild, worthless rake. Wi...
Seite 136 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Seite 194 - Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy. And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: Thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble. And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, The floods stood upright as a heap, And the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.