Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807, Band 1A. Constable, 1811 - 432 Seiten |
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... Madam , may the consciousness of cheering the declining years of a beloved father gild the silent hours , when the rocks frown around you with solemn sternness , and the winds of winter are howling over the ocean ! Almost five years are ...
... Madam , may the consciousness of cheering the declining years of a beloved father gild the silent hours , when the rocks frown around you with solemn sternness , and the winds of winter are howling over the ocean ! Almost five years are ...
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... Madam , the af- fection which that kindness has excited in my heart , creates a tender interest in all you say to me , beyond the reach of literary communication , scenic description , or the most brilliant wit to inspire , unaided by ...
... Madam , the af- fection which that kindness has excited in my heart , creates a tender interest in all you say to me , beyond the reach of literary communication , scenic description , or the most brilliant wit to inspire , unaided by ...
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... Madam , Aston's understanding was not of any strength , either native or acquired . ” ' But , Sir , I have heard you say , that her sister's husband , Mr Walmsley , was a man of bright parts , and extensive knowledge ; that he was also ...
... Madam , Aston's understanding was not of any strength , either native or acquired . ” ' But , Sir , I have heard you say , that her sister's husband , Mr Walmsley , was a man of bright parts , and extensive knowledge ; that he was also ...
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... Madam , I have said , and truly , that Walms- ley had bright and extensive powers of mind ; that they had been cultivated by familiarity with the best authors , and by connections with the learned and polite . It is a fact , that Aston ...
... Madam , I have said , and truly , that Walms- ley had bright and extensive powers of mind ; that they had been cultivated by familiarity with the best authors , and by connections with the learned and polite . It is a fact , that Aston ...
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... Madam Genlis . Do you not ob- ject to her system concerning the choice of books for young people ? She wishes that authors of first - rate excellence should be withheld from our youth , during those fresh and vivid years , when the ...
... Madam Genlis . Do you not ob- ject to her system concerning the choice of books for young people ? She wishes that authors of first - rate excellence should be withheld from our youth , during those fresh and vivid years , when the ...
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Adieu admire agreeable amiable amongst ANNA SEWARD Avignon bard beautiful benevolence blank verse celebrated character charming cold composition criticism dear delight Dewes Dr Johnson elegant envy Epic Poetry epithets excellence eyes fame fancy father feel flattering genius gentleman Gentleman's Magazine GEORGE HARDINGE Gibraltar glow graces happiness Hayley Hayley's heart honour hope hour idea imagination ingenious interest Knowles lady late LETTER Lichfield light literary Lord Lucy Porter lyre Madam March 25 Milton mind MISS WESTON Monody morning muse nature never nymph observe odes Ossian Paradise Lost passages perhaps Petrarch Piozzi pleasure poem poet poetic poetry praise prose regret rendered rhyme rocks scene sensibility Seward Shakespeare shew sonnet Sophia spirit style sublime sure sweet talents taste thou tion truth Vaucluse verse virtues Whalley WILLIAM HAYLEY wish writings youth
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Seite 218 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice...
Seite 360 - Thyself how wondrous then! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these Thy lowest works : yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine. Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, Angels ! for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night, Circle his throne rejoicing : ye in heaven, On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Seite 356 - Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
Seite 110 - This pow'r has praise that virtue scarce can warm, Till fame supplies the universal charm. Yet Reason frowns on War's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name; And mortgag'd states their grandsires...
Seite 19 - Thou sun, of this great world both eye and soul, Acknowledge him thy greater ; sound his praise In thy eternal course, both when thou climb'st, And when high noon hast gain'd, and when thou fall'st.
Seite 207 - Wing'd with red lightning and impetuous rage, Perhaps hath spent his shafts, and ceases now To bellow through the vast and boundless deep.
Seite 219 - Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers.
Seite 360 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Seite 218 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill...
Seite 66 - he would hang a dog that read the ' Lycidas ' of Milton twice." " What, then," replied I, " must become of me, who can say it by heart ; and who often repeat it to myself with a delight, which grows by what it feeds upon ? " " Die," returned the growler,