An Essay on the Application of Natural History to PoetryW. Eyres, 1777 - 156 páginas |
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... tion of the Ode almost inevitably throws its composer into unmeaning imitati- on . Elegy , converfant with a confined , and almoft uniform train of emotions , cannot but frequently become languid and feeble . Satire , indeed , is still ...
... tion of the Ode almost inevitably throws its composer into unmeaning imitati- on . Elegy , converfant with a confined , and almoft uniform train of emotions , cannot but frequently become languid and feeble . Satire , indeed , is still ...
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... tion , conducted upon somewhat of a fcientific plan . As the artist who has not studied the body with anatomical precifion , and examined the propor- tions of every limb , both with respect to its own feveral parts , and the whole ...
... tion , conducted upon somewhat of a fcientific plan . As the artist who has not studied the body with anatomical precifion , and examined the propor- tions of every limb , both with respect to its own feveral parts , and the whole ...
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... tion of the world will begin at midnight ; as if it were poffible for night at any one instant to be univerfal on the globe , or an equal portion of the earth were not always illuminated by the fun ! At midnight , when mankind is wrapt ...
... tion of the world will begin at midnight ; as if it were poffible for night at any one instant to be univerfal on the globe , or an equal portion of the earth were not always illuminated by the fun ! At midnight , when mankind is wrapt ...
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... tion has , perhaps , been injured by his excellencies , fince a nice attention to correctness and harmony is ufually thought incompatible with exalted ge- nius , had , in reality , all that enthusi- aftic fondness for the beauties of ...
... tion has , perhaps , been injured by his excellencies , fince a nice attention to correctness and harmony is ufually thought incompatible with exalted ge- nius , had , in reality , all that enthusi- aftic fondness for the beauties of ...
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... tion are those zoological sketches , in- troduced in the account of the creation , Book VII . At the great primæval com- mand " Be fruitful and multiply " what a living scene inftantly rises to view . Forthwith the founds and feas ...
... tion are those zoological sketches , in- troduced in the account of the creation , Book VII . At the great primæval com- mand " Be fruitful and multiply " what a living scene inftantly rises to view . Forthwith the founds and feas ...
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Página 109 - Fair laughs the Morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes: Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm: Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That hush'd in grim repose expects his evening prey.
Página 68 - Kilda's* shore ; whose lonely race Resign the setting sun to Indian worlds, The royal eagle draws his vigorous young, Strong-pounc'd, and ardent with paternal fire ^ Now fit to raise a kingdom of their own, He drives them from his fort, the towering seat, For ages, of his empire ; which, in peace, Unstain'd he holds, while many a league to sea He wings his course, and preys in distant isles.
Página 50 - In jointed armour watch : on smooth the seal And bended dolphins play ; part, huge of bulk, Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, Tempest the ocean : there Leviathan, Hugest of living creatures, on the deep Stretch'd like a promontory, sleeps or swims, And seems a moving land, and at his gills Draws in, and at his trunk spouts out a sea.
Página 62 - Philomela deigns To let them joy, and purposes, in thought Elate, to make her night excel their day. The blackbird whistles from the thorny brake; The mellow bullfinch answers from the grove; Nor are the linnets, o'er the flowering furze Pour'd out profusely, silent.
Página 146 - Bear me, Pomona ! to thy citron groves ; To where the lemon and the piercing lime, With the deep orange, glowing through the green, Their lighter glories blend.
Página 66 - Intent. And often, from the careless back Of herds and flocks, a thousand tugging bills Pluck hair and wool ; and oft, when...
Página 131 - Atlantic surge Pours in among the stormy Hebrides; Who can recount what transmigrations there Are annual made? what nations come and go? And how the living clouds on clouds arise? Infinite wings ! till all the plume-dark air And rude resounding shore are one wild cry.
Página 66 - Commit their feeble offspring : the cleft tree Offers its kind concealment to a few, Their food its infefts, and its mofs their nefts. Others apart far in the grafTy dale, Or roughening wafte, their humble texture weave.
Página 70 - The careful hen Calls all her chirping family around, Fed and defended by the fearless cock; Whose breast with ardour flames, as on he walks, Graceful, and crows defiance.
Página 51 - In common, rang'd in figure wedge their way, Intelligent of feafons, and fet forth Their aery caravan high over feas Flying, and over lands with mutual wing...