Literary Hours; Or, Sketches, Critical, Narrative, and PoeticalT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804 |
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... death of this celebrated or- nament of his age , that we learn where to pay our acknowledgements for the first of philo- sophic poems . Landino , recording the dis- coveries of his friend , exclaims , Illius - manu nobis , doctissime ...
... death of this celebrated or- nament of his age , that we learn where to pay our acknowledgements for the first of philo- sophic poems . Landino , recording the dis- coveries of his friend , exclaims , Illius - manu nobis , doctissime ...
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... death , are no necessary result , but the effects of our own ignorance , and of acquired imbecility ; that as reason and knowledge advance , the agency of volition will be unlimited , and that ultimately the corporeal functions will be ...
... death , are no necessary result , but the effects of our own ignorance , and of acquired imbecility ; that as reason and knowledge advance , the agency of volition will be unlimited , and that ultimately the corporeal functions will be ...
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... death . The head first flam'd with inward heat , the eyes Redden'd with fire suffus'd ; the purple jaws Sweated with bloody ichor ; ulcers foul Crept o'er the vocal path , obstructing close ; And the prompt tongue , expounder of the ...
... death . The head first flam'd with inward heat , the eyes Redden'd with fire suffus'd ; the purple jaws Sweated with bloody ichor ; ulcers foul Crept o'er the vocal path , obstructing close ; And the prompt tongue , expounder of the ...
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... death prepar'd , Till with the eighth descending sun , for few Reach'd his ninth lustre , life for ever ceas'd . Were it not that the description of the plague by Thucydides would occupy too much room , its insertion here , as an object ...
... death prepar'd , Till with the eighth descending sun , for few Reach'd his ninth lustre , life for ever ceas'd . Were it not that the description of the plague by Thucydides would occupy too much room , its insertion here , as an object ...
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... Death and Hell . In the construction of Blank Verse , how- ever , the utmost attention is required , and the nicest ear must be exercised , in forming and arranging the style , in varying and adjusting the pauses . The mechanism of ...
... Death and Hell . In the construction of Blank Verse , how- ever , the utmost attention is required , and the nicest ear must be exercised , in forming and arranging the style , in varying and adjusting the pauses . The mechanism of ...
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Side 375 - Memory and her siren 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 337 - ... which broke their waves, and turned them into foam : and sometimes I beguiled time by viewing the harmless lambs, some leaping securely in the cool shade, whilst others sported themselves in the cheerful sun ; and saw others craving comfort from the swollen udders of their bleating dams. As I thus sat, these and other sights had so fully possessed my soul with content, that I thought, as the poet has happily expressed it, " I was for that time lifted above earth, And possessed joys not promised...
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 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 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 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, Perfumed with fresh fragrance, and glittering with dew: Nor yet for the ravage of Winter I mourn ; Kind Nature the embryo blossom will save. But when shall Spring visit the mouldering urn? O, when shall it dawn on the night of the grave?
Side 33 - Nor wife, nor children more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The deadly Winter seizes ; shuts up sense ; And, o'er his inmost vitals creeping cold, Lays him along the snows, a stiffen'd Corse, 320 Stretch'd out, and bleaching in the northern blast.
Side 325 - Wrapt in a pleasing fit of melancholy, To meditate my rural minstrelsy, Till fancy had her fill. But ere a close The wonted roar was up amidst the woods...
Side 398 - And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter; and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.
Side 33 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.