Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807, Band 1A. Constable, 1811 - 432 Seiten |
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... language , leave no doubt of its doing every justice to the sentiments of the author ; - but , good heaven ! what are those sentiments ? how shockingly unamiable , how totally absurd ! Every being of distinguished genius will , from the ...
... language , leave no doubt of its doing every justice to the sentiments of the author ; - but , good heaven ! what are those sentiments ? how shockingly unamiable , how totally absurd ! Every being of distinguished genius will , from the ...
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... language ; but I am surprised at the fre- quently violent transitions in the ideas of these odes . They sometimes put me in mind of a little fat attorney , of whom my mother used to talk , who had an unfortunate habit of citing cases ...
... language ; but I am surprised at the fre- quently violent transitions in the ideas of these odes . They sometimes put me in mind of a little fat attorney , of whom my mother used to talk , who had an unfortunate habit of citing cases ...
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... language of Conrad had too much purity and ten- derness for his licentious character , his villainous designs , the murky scene , and unprotected situa- tion of her whom he endeavours to seduce . The first speech in blank verse of the ...
... language of Conrad had too much purity and ten- derness for his licentious character , his villainous designs , the murky scene , and unprotected situa- tion of her whom he endeavours to seduce . The first speech in blank verse of the ...
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... language , though entirely unique in these days , become her infinitely . There is a certain naiveté in her elevations , which preserve them from appearing fustian . She tastes the beauties of every thing she reads with discriminating ...
... language , though entirely unique in these days , become her infinitely . There is a certain naiveté in her elevations , which preserve them from appearing fustian . She tastes the beauties of every thing she reads with discriminating ...
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... language . Without any design of making a proselyte she gained one . Miss Harry grew pensively serious , and me- ditated perpetually on all which had dropt from the lips of Mrs Knowles on a theme , the infinite importance of which she ...
... language . Without any design of making a proselyte she gained one . Miss Harry grew pensively serious , and me- ditated perpetually on all which had dropt from the lips of Mrs Knowles on a theme , the infinite importance of which she ...
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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,