The Poetical Works of Mr. William CollinsT. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1802 - 124 páginas |
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... passions , particularly those of Love , Terror , and Pity , commands the attention even of those who are but indifferent judges of the vehicle in which it may be conveyed . The other class con- sists of what may be called pure Poetry ...
... passions , particularly those of Love , Terror , and Pity , commands the attention even of those who are but indifferent judges of the vehicle in which it may be conveyed . The other class con- sists of what may be called pure Poetry ...
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... passions of men are uniform ; but , modified by the influence of climate , government , manners , and local circumstance , and accompanied with the various tints which employ the pencil of a land- scape painter , they present an ...
... passions of men are uniform ; but , modified by the influence of climate , government , manners , and local circumstance , and accompanied with the various tints which employ the pencil of a land- scape painter , they present an ...
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... passion . There seems also a small impropriety in Hassan's bearing the cruise of water himself , when he was master of laden camels . The subject of the next Eclogue is truly pastoral , A young shepherdess making garlands of such ...
... passion . There seems also a small impropriety in Hassan's bearing the cruise of water himself , when he was master of laden camels . The subject of the next Eclogue is truly pastoral , A young shepherdess making garlands of such ...
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... passion as Fear . The ODE TO SIMPLICITY is chiefly distinguished by a smoothness and uniformity of melody , adapted to the sober nature of the subject . It chiefly in- sists on the power of Simplicity in touching the heart , and its ...
... passion as Fear . The ODE TO SIMPLICITY is chiefly distinguished by a smoothness and uniformity of melody , adapted to the sober nature of the subject . It chiefly in- sists on the power of Simplicity in touching the heart , and its ...
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... passions than with Manners . Indeed the subject isn ot particularly proper for an Ode , and , though not devoid of merit , this is by no means one of his most striking pieces . THE PASSIONS . The connection of Music with Poetry , xxxvi ...
... passions than with Manners . Indeed the subject isn ot particularly proper for an Ode , and , though not devoid of merit , this is by no means one of his most striking pieces . THE PASSIONS . The connection of Music with Poetry , xxxvi ...
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The Poetical Works of Mr. William Collins: With a Prefatory Essay William Collins Vista completa - 1797 |
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Página 101 - 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.
Página 81 - When Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft, to hear her shell, Throng'd around her magic cell...
Página 68 - O'erhang his wavy bed, Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn...
Página 47 - How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
Página 102 - No goblins lead their nightly crew; The female fays shall haunt the green, And dress thy grave with pearly dew; The redbreast oft, at evening hours, Shall kindly lend his little aid, With hoary moss, and gathered flowers, To deck the ground where thou art laid.
Página 83 - 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...
Página 82 - tis said, when all were fired, Filled with fury, rapt, inspired, From the supporting myrtles round They snatched her instruments of sound...
Página 87 - But soon he saw the brisk awakening viol, Whose sweet entrancing voice he loved the best.
Página 104 - IN yonder grave a Druid lies, Where slowly winds the stealing wave ! The year's best sweets shall duteous rise, To deck its poet's sylvan grave ! In yon deep bed of whispering reeds His airy harp ' shall now be laid ; That he whose heart in sorrow bleeds May love through life the soothing shade.
Página 87 - 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. O Music ! sphere-descended maid, Friend of Pleasure, Wisdom's aid, Why, Goddess! why, to us denied, Lay'st thou thy ancient lyre aside...