On the blindness of Homer, Ossian, and Milton. The Valley of the Rye, continued. On the character and writings of Sir Thomas Browne. Critical remarks on "The judgement, a vision", a poem by Mr. Hillhouse of New York. Remarks on social worshipLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822 |
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... hand the warbling lyre , What dulcet voice is this to which belong Powers to entrance you with its godlike song ? O may you answer with applausive smile — ' Tis the blind bard of Chio's rugged isle , The unrivalled merit of whose ...
... hand the warbling lyre , What dulcet voice is this to which belong Powers to entrance you with its godlike song ? O may you answer with applausive smile — ' Tis the blind bard of Chio's rugged isle , The unrivalled merit of whose ...
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... hand no more awak'd the silver string . * * That Thamyris was deprived of his mental faculties as well as of his sight , is evident from the original , in which he is des- cribed as having lost , not only his memory as a poet , but the ...
... hand no more awak'd the silver string . * * That Thamyris was deprived of his mental faculties as well as of his sight , is evident from the original , in which he is des- cribed as having lost , not only his memory as a poet , but the ...
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... , ἥνπερ οι άλλοι Φαιήκων οἱ ἄριστοι , ἀέθλια θαυμανεοντες . ΟΔΥΣ . Θ ' . 105 . the herald hanging high The sprightly lyre , took gently by his hand Demodocus , and leading him abroad , Follow'd Phœacia's Princes 16 EVENINGS IN AUTUMN .
... , ἥνπερ οι άλλοι Φαιήκων οἱ ἄριστοι , ἀέθλια θαυμανεοντες . ΟΔΥΣ . Θ ' . 105 . the herald hanging high The sprightly lyre , took gently by his hand Demodocus , and leading him abroad , Follow'd Phœacia's Princes 16 EVENINGS IN AUTUMN .
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... hand the bard , Phœacia's glory , at the column's side The herald placed Demodocus again . Cowper . Literal as Cowper may generally be esteemed in his version , he has not here given the full import of the original , omitting the ...
... hand the bard , Phœacia's glory , at the column's side The herald placed Demodocus again . Cowper . Literal as Cowper may generally be esteemed in his version , he has not here given the full import of the original , omitting the ...
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... hand . Cowper . He then proceeds to describe Ulysses as shortly afterwards calling upon Demodocus for a further trial of his skill , and as prefacing his request with a lofty and noble encomium on his genius * 3 18 EVENINGS IN AUTUMN .
... hand . Cowper . He then proceeds to describe Ulysses as shortly afterwards calling upon Demodocus for a further trial of his skill , and as prefacing his request with a lofty and noble encomium on his genius * 3 18 EVENINGS IN AUTUMN .
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Adeline admirable appears bard beauty behold blessed blind bosom breast breathed Buckingham castle character charity Christian church circumstances companion cottage Countess of Shrewsbury Cowper dark daughter dear death degree Deity delight Demodocus divine Duke Earl of Arran earth EDMESTON Edward effect emotions exclaimed eyes faith father feelings felt Fingal Gilling Castle glory Grace gratify grave happiness harp hath heart heaven Helmsley Helmsley Castle Hoel Homer honour human hymn interest Kirkdale light Lluellyn Lord loss of sight ment Milton mind mingled misery misfortune nature ness noble object Ossian Paradise Lost passage peace pity poem poet prayer present racter recollection Religio Medici religion Rivaulx Ryedale Scotch College Sir Thomas Browne sleep smile song sorrow soul spirit sublime sufferings sweet tears tender Thamyris thee thou thought tion unto veneration virtue voice Walsingham whilst wish youth δὲ ΟΔΥΣ
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Página 271 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day...
Página 282 - The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Página 271 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill...
Página 36 - In the first rank of these did Zimri' stand, A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Página 190 - O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers ! Whence are thy beams, O sun ! thy everlasting light ! Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty ; the stars hide themselves in the sky ; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave ; but thou thyself movest aloive.
Página 278 - To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues, In darkness, and with dangers compassed round, And solitude ; yet not alone, while thou Visit'st my slumbers nightly, or when morn Purples the east. Still govern thou my song, Urania, and fit audience find, though few.
Página 190 - When the world is dark with tempests, when thunder rolls and lightning flies, thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds, and laughest at the storm. But to Ossian thou lookest in vain, for he beholds thy beams no more; whether thy yellow hair flows on the eastern clouds, or thou tremblest at the gates of the west.
Página 70 - Thus there are two books from whence I collect my divinity — besides that written one of God, another of his servant nature ; that universal and public manuscript, that lies expanded unto the eyes of all — those that never saw him in the one, have discovered him in the other.
Página 36 - Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy ! Railing and praising were his usual themes, And both to show his judgment, in extremes : So over violent or over civil, That every man with him was God or devil.
Página 270 - Orphean lyre I sung of chaos and eternal Night, Taught by the heavenly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend, Though hard and rare.