A Study of William Shenstone and of His Critics: With Fifteen of His Unpublished Poems and Five of His Unpublished Latin InscriptionsGeorge Banta publishing Company, 1918 - 94 Seiten |
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Seite 47 - The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.
Seite 30 - Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an object to catch the view ; to make water run where it will be heard, and to stagnate where it will be seen; to leave intervals where the eye will be pleased, and to thicken the plantation where there is something to be hidden, — demands any great powers of mind, I will not inquire ; perhaps a surly and sullen spectator may think such performances rather the sport than the business of human reason.
Seite 41 - Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Seite 83 - I have found out a gift for my fair ; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed: But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed : For he ne'er could be true, she averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its young : And I lov'd her the more, when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue.
Seite 35 - My banks they are furnished with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep ; My grottoes are shaded with trees, And my hills are white over with sheep.
Seite 22 - The first time a company came to see my house, I felt his joy. I am now so tired of it, that I shudder when the bell rings at the gate. It is as bad as keeping an inn...
Seite 40 - I cannot but regret that it is pastoral ; an intelligent reader, acquainted with the scenes of real life, sickens at the mention of the crook, the pipe, the sheep, and the kids...
Seite 46 - E'en now sagacious Foresight points to show A little bench of heedless bishops here, And there a chancellor in embryo...
Seite 47 - And the steed shall be red-roan, And the lover shall be noble, With an eye that takes the breath : And the lute he plays upon shall strike ladies into trouble As his sword strikes men to death.