The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Հատոր 13J. Johnson, 1810 - 612 էջ |
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... reason through its gradations of advance in the morning of life . Every man , acquainted with the common principles of human action , will look with veneration on the writer , who is at one time combat- ing Locke , and at another making ...
... reason through its gradations of advance in the morning of life . Every man , acquainted with the common principles of human action , will look with veneration on the writer , who is at one time combat- ing Locke , and at another making ...
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... reason why we should always borrow the plan or history from the ancient Jews , or primitive martyrs ; though several of these would furnish out noble materials for this sort of poesy : but modern scenes would be better understood by ...
... reason why we should always borrow the plan or history from the ancient Jews , or primitive martyrs ; though several of these would furnish out noble materials for this sort of poesy : but modern scenes would be better understood by ...
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... reason of the following composures , and of the first or second publication , I entreat them to accept of this account . The title assures them that poesy is not the business of my life ; and if I seized those hours of leisure , wherein ...
... reason of the following composures , and of the first or second publication , I entreat them to accept of this account . The title assures them that poesy is not the business of my life ; and if I seized those hours of leisure , wherein ...
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... reason why , Nor God the reason gives ; Nor dares the favourite - angel pry Between the folded leaves . My God , I never long'd to see My fate with curious eyes , What gloomy lines are writ for me , Or what bright scenes shall rise . In ...
... reason why , Nor God the reason gives ; Nor dares the favourite - angel pry Between the folded leaves . My God , I never long'd to see My fate with curious eyes , What gloomy lines are writ for me , Or what bright scenes shall rise . In ...
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... reason to pursue , But leaves it tir'd and fainting in th ' unequal chase . Or if I reach unusual height Till near his presence brought , There floods of glory check my flight , Cramp the bold pinions of my wit , And all untune my ...
... reason to pursue , But leaves it tir'd and fainting in th ' unequal chase . Or if I reach unusual height Till near his presence brought , There floods of glory check my flight , Cramp the bold pinions of my wit , And all untune my ...
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angels ANTISTROPHE Aristagoras art thou beauty behold beneath bless blest bliss boast breast breath bright Camarina charms dark dear death deep delight divine dreadful e'en Earth ECLOGUE EPODE Ergoteles eternal eyes fair fame fate fear fire flame flowers fond genius glory grace grief Grongar Hill grove hand happy heart Heaven heavenly honour immortal king labour Lord Lorenzo lov'd lyre maid mighty mind mortal mourn Muse Nature Nature's ne'er night Night Thoughts numbers nymph o'er pain passion peace Pelops Pindar plain pleasure poem poet praise pride proud rage reign rise round sacred scene seraphic shade shine shore sing skies smile soft song soul sound strain stream STROPHE swain sweet swell tears tempest terrour thee thine thou thought throne thunder Tlepolemus toil truth vale verse virtue WILLIAM SHENSTONE wind wings youth
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Էջ 419 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Էջ 419 - Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, " That all men are about to live," For ever on the brink of being born. All pay themselves the compliment to think They one day shall not drivel : and their pride On this reversion takes up ready praise ; At least, their own ; their future selves...
Էջ 95 - Just such is the Christian ; his course he begins, Like the sun in a mist, when he mourns for his sins, And melts into tears ; then he breaks out and shines, And travels his heavenly way : But when he comes nearer to finish his race, Like a fine setting sun, he looks richer in grace, And gives a sure hope, at the end of his days, Of rising in brighter array.
Էջ 204 - But soon he saw the brisk awakening viol, Whose sweet entrancing voice he loved the best ; They would have thought who heard the strain They saw, in Tempe's vale, her native maids, Amidst the festal sounding shades, To some unwearied minstrel dancing...
Էջ 221 - Wide and wider spreads the vale As circles on a smooth canal ; The mountains round (unhappy fate !) Sooner or later, of all height, Withdraw their summits from the skies, And lessen as the others...
Էջ 203 - Madness ruled the hour) Would prove his own expressive power. First Fear his hand, its skill to try, Amid the chords bewilder'd laid, And back recoil'd, he knew not why, E'en at the sound himself had made.
Էջ 416 - TIRED Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where Fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes; Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear.
Էջ 222 - Ever charming, ever new, When will the landscape tire the view! The fountain's fall, the river's flow, The woody valleys warm and low; The windy summit, wild and high, Roughly rushing on the sky! The pleasant seat, the ruin'd tower, The naked rock, the shady bower; The town and village, dome and farm, Each give each a double charm, As pearls upon an Ethiop's arm.
Էջ 379 - The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art, Reigns, more or less, and glows in every heart ; The proud to gain it, toils on toils endure ; The modest shun it, but to make it sure.
Էջ 202 - Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum, — Now teach me, Maid composed ! To breathe some soften'd strain : Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit, As, musing slow, I hail Thy genial loved return.