The Port FolioEditor and Asbury Dickens, 1813 |
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... taste in literature , as well as in morals ; and it was a taste singu- larly adapted to the genius of that witty monarch , and the beaux esprits who composed his court . On the return of these gallant cavaliers to England , gratitude ...
... taste in literature , as well as in morals ; and it was a taste singu- larly adapted to the genius of that witty monarch , and the beaux esprits who composed his court . On the return of these gallant cavaliers to England , gratitude ...
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... taste in England ; but it required the fine talents of Pope to give a round and finish to the empire . Pope has produced the most refined melody of versification , the most sustained excellence and sagacious views of fashionable life ...
... taste in England ; but it required the fine talents of Pope to give a round and finish to the empire . Pope has produced the most refined melody of versification , the most sustained excellence and sagacious views of fashionable life ...
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... taste or his subject imposes . Mr. Southey has not yet received his full desert of praise . He has great faults , but they spring from an exuberance of genius and feeling ; and he will discover , probably too late , that to acquire ...
... taste or his subject imposes . Mr. Southey has not yet received his full desert of praise . He has great faults , but they spring from an exuberance of genius and feeling ; and he will discover , probably too late , that to acquire ...
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... taste , clip the luxuriance of his growths into py- ramids and cones , and compel his streams to meander by the compass . These old writers are so truly English , and amidst all their faults , have so many redeeming virtues , that ...
... taste , clip the luxuriance of his growths into py- ramids and cones , and compel his streams to meander by the compass . These old writers are so truly English , and amidst all their faults , have so many redeeming virtues , that ...
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... taste , and the grace and lightness of the French , and the tawdry elegance of the modern -- so that his poem resembles one of those ancient buildings , which has been repaired , in the style , and with the materials of each successive ...
... taste , and the grace and lightness of the French , and the tawdry elegance of the modern -- so that his poem resembles one of those ancient buildings , which has been repaired , in the style , and with the materials of each successive ...
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Էջ 179 - And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
Էջ 174 - There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: and there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
Էջ 164 - I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.
Էջ 174 - For behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
Էջ 647 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress...
Էջ 33 - The tear down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dewdrop on the rose ; When next the summer breeze comes by, And waves the bush, the flower is dry.
Էջ 163 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Էջ 516 - Tis she ; — but why that bleeding bosom gor'd, Why dimly gleams the visionary sword ! Oh, ever beauteous, ever friendly ! tell, Is it, in heaven, a crime to love too well ? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part ? Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think, or bravely die...
Էջ 60 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Էջ 383 - ... for these reasons it has been my ardent wish to see a plan devised, on a liberal scale, which would have a tendency to spread systematic ideas through all parts of this rising empire, thereby to do away local attachments and State prejudices, as far as the nature of things would, or indeed ought to admit, from our national councils.