Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin: Chiefly During His Residence in Lichfield, with Anecdotes of His Friends, and Criticisms on His WritingsAt the Classic Press, for W. Poyntell & Company, 1804 - 313 էջ |
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... the Muses , and on public proof an highly - favoured disciple , you must be interested in the life and character of one of the most eminent of your poetic contemporaries . Hence , my Lord , do I presume to lay 144768.
... the Muses , and on public proof an highly - favoured disciple , you must be interested in the life and character of one of the most eminent of your poetic contemporaries . Hence , my Lord , do I presume to lay 144768.
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... Poet ; the peculiar traits of his manners ; his excel- lencies and faults ; the Petrarchan attachment of his middle life , more happy in its result than was that of the Bard of Vaucluse ; the beautiful poetic testimonies of its fervour ...
... Poet ; the peculiar traits of his manners ; his excel- lencies and faults ; the Petrarchan attachment of his middle life , more happy in its result than was that of the Bard of Vaucluse ; the beautiful poetic testimonies of its fervour ...
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... Poets , had deserved the fate they met on those pages . Then , to the injury of our national taste , and to the literary and moral character of the great English Classics , more universal confidence had been placed in the sophistries of ...
... Poets , had deserved the fate they met on those pages . Then , to the injury of our national taste , and to the literary and moral character of the great English Classics , more universal confidence had been placed in the sophistries of ...
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... poetic imagination ; but he remembered how fatal that gift professionally became to the young physi- cians , Akenside and Armstrong . Concerning them , the public could not be persuaded , that so much excellence in an ornamental science ...
... poetic imagination ; but he remembered how fatal that gift professionally became to the young physi- cians , Akenside and Armstrong . Concerning them , the public could not be persuaded , that so much excellence in an ornamental science ...
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... poetic fancy , and what were then the politics of the original , appear in the choice of sub- ject and attitude . Dr. Darwin sat to Mr. Wright about the same period . That was a simply con- templative portrait , of the most perfect ...
... poetic fancy , and what were then the politics of the original , appear in the choice of sub- ject and attitude . Dr. Darwin sat to Mr. Wright about the same period . That was a simply con- templative portrait , of the most perfect ...
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Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin: Chiefly During His Residence in Lichfield ... Anna Seward Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1804 |
Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin: Chiefly During His Residence at Lichfield ... Anna Seward Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1804 |
Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin: Chiefly During His Residence in Lichfield ... Anna Seward Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1804 |
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Էջ 219 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Էջ 310 - There's no prerogative in human hours. In human hearts what bolder thought can rise Than man's presumption on to-morrow's dawn? Where is to-morrow? In another world. For numbers this is certain; the reverse Is sure to none...
Էջ 220 - And not for justice ? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers, shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honours For so much trash as may be grasped thus?
Էջ 177 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Էջ 34 - For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone, By his permissive will, through heaven and earth : And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems...
Էջ 113 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was...
Էջ 221 - Sleep no more ! ' to all the house : ' Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor Shall sleep no more ; Macbeth shall sleep no more.
Էջ 252 - E'en now, e'en now, on yonder Western shores Weeps pale Despair, and writhing Anguish roars : E'en now in Afric's groves with hideous yell Fierce Slavery stalks, and slips the dogs of hell ; From vale to vale the gathering cries rebound, And sable nations tremble at the sound ! — . YE BANDS OF SENATORS!
Էջ 198 - ... orbs encroach ; Flowers of the sky ! ye too to age must yield, Frail as your silken sisters of the field ! Star after star from Heaven's high arch shall rush, Suns sink on Suns, and systems systems crush, Headlong, extinct, to one dark centre fall, And Death, and Night, and Chaos mingle all ! Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal NATURE lifts her changeful form, Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And soars and shines, another and the same.
Էջ 43 - It was a platform, with a seat fixed upon a very high pair of wheefs, and supported in the front, upon the back of the horse, by means of a kind of proboscis, which, forming an arch, reached over the hind quarters of the horse, and passed through a ring, placed on an upright piece of iron, which worked in a socket, fixed in the saddle. The...