Watts, A. Philips, West, Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, YoungAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... wish for a greater measure of sprightliness and vigour ! He is at least one of the few poets with whom youth and ignorance may be safely pleased : and happy will be that reader whose mind is disposed , by his verses or his prose , to ...
... wish for a greater measure of sprightliness and vigour ! He is at least one of the few poets with whom youth and ignorance may be safely pleased : and happy will be that reader whose mind is disposed , by his verses or his prose , to ...
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... wish You'd been as very fools , as once you thought Others , for the sublimest wisdom scorn'd ; When pointed lightnings from the wrathful Judge Shall singe your blighted laurels , and the men Who thought they flew so high shall fall so ...
... wish You'd been as very fools , as once you thought Others , for the sublimest wisdom scorn'd ; When pointed lightnings from the wrathful Judge Shall singe your blighted laurels , and the men Who thought they flew so high shall fall so ...
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... wish and encourage in prose ; the one in a rich variety of thought and fancy , the other in all the shining colours of profuse and florid diction . If shorter sonnets were composed on sublime subjects , such as the Psalms of David , and ...
... wish and encourage in prose ; the one in a rich variety of thought and fancy , the other in all the shining colours of profuse and florid diction . If shorter sonnets were composed on sublime subjects , such as the Psalms of David , and ...
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... wish some English pen would import more of his treasures , and bless our nation . The inscriptions to particular friends are warranted and defended by the practice of almost all the Lyric writers . They frequently convey the rigid rules ...
... wish some English pen would import more of his treasures , and bless our nation . The inscriptions to particular friends are warranted and defended by the practice of almost all the Lyric writers . They frequently convey the rigid rules ...
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... wish , Heaven , Earth and EARTH AND HEAVEN . HAST thou not seen , impatient boy ! Hast thou not read the solemn truth , That gray experience writes for giddy youth On every mortal joy ? Pleasure must be dash'd with pain : And yet , with ...
... wish , Heaven , Earth and EARTH AND HEAVEN . HAST thou not seen , impatient boy ! Hast thou not read the solemn truth , That gray experience writes for giddy youth On every mortal joy ? Pleasure must be dash'd with pain : And yet , with ...
Términos y frases comunes
ANTISTROPHE Aristagoras art thou beauty behold beneath bless blest bliss bloom boast bosom breast breath bright Camarina charms dark dear death deep delight divine dreadful e'en Earth ECLOGUE EPODE Ergoteles eternal eyes fair fame fate fear fire flame flowers fond genius glory grace grief Grongar Hill grove hand happy heart Heaven heavenly honour immortal king labour Lord Lorenzo lov'd lyre maid mighty mind mortal mourn Muse Nature Nature's ne'er night Night Thoughts numbers nymph o'er pain passion peace Pelops Pindar plain pleas'd pleasure poem poet praise pride proud rage reign rise round sacred scene shade shine shore sigh sing skies smile soft song soul strain stream STROPHE swain sweet swell tears tempest terrour thee thine thou thought throne Tlepolemus toil truth vale verse virtue WILLIAM SHENSTONE wind wing wise Xenocrates youth
Pasajes populares
Página 206 - Tis said, and I believe the tale, Thy humblest reed could more prevail, Had more of strength, diviner rage, Than all which charms this laggard age...
Página 205 - He threw his blood-stain'd sword in thunder down, And with a withering look The war-denouncing trumpet took, And blew a blast so loud and dread, Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe ; And ever and anon he beat...
Página 204 - IF AUGHT of oaten stop or pastoral song May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest ear Like thy own solemn springs, Thy springs, and dying gales...
Página 206 - Love framed with Mirth a gay fantastic round : Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound; And he, amidst his frolic play, As if he would the charming air repay, Shook thousand odours from his dewy wings.
Página 219 - twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure? Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would her touch the strain prolong...
Página 207 - To fair Fidele's grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring Each opening sweet, of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing Spring. No wailing ghost shall dare appear To vex with shrieks this quiet grove ; But shepherd lads assemble here, And melting virgins own their love. No wither'd witch shall here be seen, No goblins lead their nightly crew; The female fays shall haunt the green, And dress thy grave with pearly dew...
Página 422 - TIRED Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where Fortune smiles ; the wretched he forsakes ; Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear.
Página 205 - When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue, Her bow across her shoulder flung, Her buskins gemm'd with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call to Faun and Dryad known...
Página 328 - In every village mark'd with little spire, Embower'd in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells, in lowly shed and mean attire, A matron old, whom we Schoolmistress name...
Página 425 - All promise is poor dilatory man, And that through every stage. When young, indeed, In full content we sometimes nobly rest, Unanxious for ourselves, and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan...