Literary Hours: Or, Sketches Critical and Narrative, Bind 1J. Burkitt, 1800 |
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Side 41
... dreadful that afflicts humanity , I have chosen on an intervening page , and with a view to gratify the mind by the charm of contrast , as well as to evince the exquisite beauty of the original and translation , to present a picture ...
... dreadful that afflicts humanity , I have chosen on an intervening page , and with a view to gratify the mind by the charm of contrast , as well as to evince the exquisite beauty of the original and translation , to present a picture ...
Side 44
... dreadful calamity . To the elegant and faith- ful detail of the Historian the Roman Bard has added all that was necessary to convert the description into pure poetry . Than the pro- sopopæia of Medicine , -mussabat tacito Medecina ...
... dreadful calamity . To the elegant and faith- ful detail of the Historian the Roman Bard has added all that was necessary to convert the description into pure poetry . Than the pro- sopopæia of Medicine , -mussabat tacito Medecina ...
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... dreadful and mysterious imagery of our elder bards . But it is greatly to be lamented that , in some instances , the noblest mind has been laid in ruins by suffering a train of idea of this kind 56 NO . fir . LITERARY.
... dreadful and mysterious imagery of our elder bards . But it is greatly to be lamented that , in some instances , the noblest mind has been laid in ruins by suffering a train of idea of this kind 56 NO . fir . LITERARY.
Side 91
... dreadfully along the valley ; the demon of the night trembled on his hill of storms , and the rocks returned a deepening echo . Wolkmar at length awoke , a cold sweat trickled over his forehead , every muscle shook with horror , and ...
... dreadfully along the valley ; the demon of the night trembled on his hill of storms , and the rocks returned a deepening echo . Wolkmar at length awoke , a cold sweat trickled over his forehead , every muscle shook with horror , and ...
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... dreadful , from her heedless grasp Her little infant flew . Ah me ! upon the rocky ground , See gor'd its tender breast ! It scream'd — it writh'd , then stretch'd its arms , And sigh'd its soul to rest . Ah Lucy , then how swell'd ...
... dreadful , from her heedless grasp Her little infant flew . Ah me ! upon the rocky ground , See gor'd its tender breast ! It scream'd — it writh'd , then stretch'd its arms , And sigh'd its soul to rest . Ah Lucy , then how swell'd ...
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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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Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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.