The life and writings of Henry Fuseli, the former written and the latter ed. by J. Knowles, Հատոր 1 |
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... kept up the most uninterrupted intercourse and friendship during life . I may , I hope , here be allowed to digress by stating , that after the marriage of Mr. James Carrick Moore and that of his brother , Admiral Sir 60 THE LIFE OF.
... kept up the most uninterrupted intercourse and friendship during life . I may , I hope , here be allowed to digress by stating , that after the marriage of Mr. James Carrick Moore and that of his brother , Admiral Sir 60 THE LIFE OF.
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... Hope or Fear , from the following passage : " Turbine magni , spes solicita Urbibus errant , trepidique metus . " The personification of Hope , by Tibullus , ( Lib . II . Eleg . 6. ) is scarcely worthy of that charming author ; and if ...
... Hope or Fear , from the following passage : " Turbine magni , spes solicita Urbibus errant , trepidique metus . " The personification of Hope , by Tibullus , ( Lib . II . Eleg . 6. ) is scarcely worthy of that charming author ; and if ...
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... Hope of Lorenzo de ' Medici , may with equal pro- priety adopt the names of Health , Suspicion , and Curi- osity ; but the Lite of Homer are images discriminated from all others , and will rank as models of true proso- popoeia without ...
... Hope of Lorenzo de ' Medici , may with equal pro- priety adopt the names of Health , Suspicion , and Curi- osity ; but the Lite of Homer are images discriminated from all others , and will rank as models of true proso- popoeia without ...
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... hope of surpass- ing them . Even the early part of the fifteenth cen- tury produced scholars as much superior to Petrarca , and his coadjutors , as they were to the monkish com- pilers , and scholastic disputants , who immediately pre ...
... hope of surpass- ing them . Even the early part of the fifteenth cen- tury produced scholars as much superior to Petrarca , and his coadjutors , as they were to the monkish com- pilers , and scholastic disputants , who immediately pre ...
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... hope which carries me on , not prove de- lusive . " The monotony of painting from one author , however , was in a degree broken by the variety of subjects which Milton's poetical works afford , for he could at will turn " from grave to ...
... hope which carries me on , not prove de- lusive . " The monotony of painting from one author , however , was in a degree broken by the variety of subjects which Milton's poetical works afford , for he could at will turn " from grave to ...
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Էջ 356 - O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene...
Էջ 204 - Our lingering parents, and to the eastern gate Led them direct, and down the cliff as fast To the subjected plain; then disappear'd. They looking back all th...
Էջ 196 - 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 199 - As when a gryphon through the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : so eagerly the Fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Էջ 206 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength; And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Էջ 203 - Shall bring on men." Immediately a place Before his eyes appear'd, sad, noisome, dark ; A lazar-house it seem'd, wherein were laid Numbers of all...
Էջ 206 - To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend...
Էջ 200 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat! Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Էջ 195 - In billows, leave i' th' midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual weight, till on dry land He lights, if it were land that ever...
Էջ 203 - Dire was the tossing, deep the groans : Despair Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invoked With vows, as their chief good, and final hope.