Literary Hours: Or, Sketches Critical and Narrative, Հատոր 1J. Burkitt, 1800 |
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... Inscriptive Writing • 35 · 51 · 73 · · · 87 • 103 • 119 8. On Gothic Superstition . Ode to Super- stition 9. Henry Fitzowen , a Gothic Tale 10. The same continued · · 137 • • · 155 · 179 11. The same concluded 12. On the Fleece of Dyer.
... Inscriptive Writing • 35 · 51 · 73 · · · 87 • 103 • 119 8. On Gothic Superstition . Ode to Super- stition 9. Henry Fitzowen , a Gothic Tale 10. The same continued · · 137 • • · 155 · 179 11. The same concluded 12. On the Fleece of Dyer.
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... every incentive to temperance . It is true , See the conclusion of the third book . Book the fifth towards the end . that he maintained all happiness to consist in pleasure , LITERARY NO . 1 . On Gothic Superstition Ode to Super- stition.
... every incentive to temperance . It is true , See the conclusion of the third book . Book the fifth towards the end . that he maintained all happiness to consist in pleasure , LITERARY NO . 1 . On Gothic Superstition Ode to Super- stition.
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... superstition , thus proceeds : Illud in his rebus vereor , ne forte rearis Impia te rationis inire elementa , viamque Endogredi sceleris : Quod contra , sæpius olim Religio peperit scelerosa atque impia facta , Aulide quo pacto Triviaï ...
... superstition , thus proceeds : Illud in his rebus vereor , ne forte rearis Impia te rationis inire elementa , viamque Endogredi sceleris : Quod contra , sæpius olim Religio peperit scelerosa atque impia facta , Aulide quo pacto Triviaï ...
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... Superstition may , and nought so soon , But Wisdom never . Superstition ' twas Urg'd the fell Grecian chiefs with virgin blood To stain the virgin altar : —barb'rous deed , And fatal to their laurels ! Aulis saw , For there Diana reigns ...
... Superstition may , and nought so soon , But Wisdom never . Superstition ' twas Urg'd the fell Grecian chiefs with virgin blood To stain the virgin altar : —barb'rous deed , And fatal to their laurels ! Aulis saw , For there Diana reigns ...
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... Superstition prompts ! The lines in Italics , both in the original and translation , are equally pathetic and strong . Some of the most pleasing passages in Lu- cretius are those in which he commemorates his poetical and philosophical ...
... Superstition prompts ! The lines in Italics , both in the original and translation , are equally pathetic and strong . Some of the most pleasing passages in Lu- cretius are those in which he commemorates his poetical and philosophical ...
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Adeline admiration ancient Arabian arms Bagdad bard beautiful Belial beneath blank verse bosom breathe burst caliph castle charms Christ composition dark death deep delight demons diction dreadful Dyer earth eclogue elegant Empedocles Ennius Epicurus excellence exquisite eyes fancy feeling Fitzowen Fleece friends genius gloomy gothic Gothre hand heard heart heaven Henry horror imagery imagination kind light Lorenzo de Medici Lucretius Mammon melancholy ment merit Milton mind mingled moral Muse nature night NUMBER o'er Ommiades Ossian pale Paradise Lost passage pastoral pathetic perhaps Petrarch pictoresque pleasure poem poet poetic poetry possess quæ reader Roman Satan scene scenery sentiment Shakspeare sigh simplicity soft song sonnets sorrow soul species specimen spirit stood stream style sublime superstition sweet Tasso taste tender terror thee Theocritus thou thro tion trees vale vault verse versification Virgil Walleran whilst wild William of Malmsbury wind Wolkmar youth
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Էջ 195 - Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear ; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Էջ 375 - Daughters; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Էջ 409 - With lust and violence the house of God? In courts and palaces he also reigns, And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury, and outrage: And when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
Էջ 411 - A pillar of state : deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat, and public care : And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic though in ruin...
Էջ 66 - With fairest flowers Whilst summer lasts and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave: thou shalt not lack The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose, nor The azured harebell, like thy veins, no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Էջ 331 - Now gliding remote, on the verge of the sky, The moon half extinguished her crescent displays ; But lately I marked, when majestic on high She shone, and the planets were lost in her blaze. Roll on, thou fair orb, and with gladness pursue The path that conducts thee to splendor again : But man's faded glory what change shall renew? Ah, fool...
Էջ 338 - As I left this place, and entered into the next field, a second pleasure entertained me : 'twas a handsome milkmaid, that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to load her mind with any fears of many things that will never be...
Էջ 412 - On the other side up-rose Belial, in act more graceful and humane : A fairer person lost not Heaven ; he seem'd For dignity compos'd, and high exploit : But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels : for his thoughts were low...
Էջ 331 - Tis night, and the landscape is lovely no more ; I mourn, but, ye woodlands, I mourn not for you; For morn is approaching, your charms to restore...
Էջ 30 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.