Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition, Addressed to His SonBradford and Inskeep, 1809 - 363 sider |
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Side 27
... never European faith betray'd . " The Dying Negro . 4th . Absence from persons very dear . The whole of that inimitable poem , Mr. Pope's Eloisa , affords a fine example of this ; and particularly the following lines : 66 .No fly me ...
... never European faith betray'd . " The Dying Negro . 4th . Absence from persons very dear . The whole of that inimitable poem , Mr. Pope's Eloisa , affords a fine example of this ; and particularly the following lines : 66 .No fly me ...
Side 28
... never cease to read , con- tain perhaps the very finest instances extant of the pa- thetic . Who can read aloud the parable of the prodigal son , and not shed a tear ? Of Nathan's parable I have already spoken . The tender is a branch ...
... never cease to read , con- tain perhaps the very finest instances extant of the pa- thetic . Who can read aloud the parable of the prodigal son , and not shed a tear ? Of Nathan's parable I have already spoken . The tender is a branch ...
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... never can give elegance and freedom ; that magic power which calls up at once the most appropriate terms , and arranges them in the best order . On this ac- count young writers should be wise in their choice of books , and read none ...
... never can give elegance and freedom ; that magic power which calls up at once the most appropriate terms , and arranges them in the best order . On this ac- count young writers should be wise in their choice of books , and read none ...
Side 42
... never be an excuse to say to the world , we do not understand the subject of which we mean to treat . Perspicuity will depend , in the first place , on the choice of words , and secondly , on the ar- rangement of them . As far as ...
... never be an excuse to say to the world , we do not understand the subject of which we mean to treat . Perspicuity will depend , in the first place , on the choice of words , and secondly , on the ar- rangement of them . As far as ...
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... never let the glory of our nation , who made France tremble , and yet has the gen- tleness to be unable to bear opposition from the meanest of his own countrymen , be calumniated in so imprudent a manner , as in the insinuation that he ...
... never let the glory of our nation , who made France tremble , and yet has the gen- tleness to be unable to bear opposition from the meanest of his own countrymen , be calumniated in so imprudent a manner , as in the insinuation that he ...
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Side 76 - In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease, because they are few, and those that look out of the windows, be darkened ; And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low...
Side 15 - I ran it through, even from my boyish days, To the very moment that he bade me tell it : Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents, by flood, and field ; Of hair-breadth scapes i...
Side 23 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
Side 298 - Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede. Thou dost drink, and dance, and sing, Happier than the happiest king ! All the fields which thou dost see, All the plants belong to thee, All that summer hours produce. Fertile made with early juice : Man for thee does sow and plough ; Farmer he and landlord thou ! Thou dost innocently joy, Nor does thy luxury destroy.
Side 69 - Are they Hebrews ? so am I. Are they Israelites ? so am I ; Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. Are they the ministers of Christ ? (I speak as a fool,) I am more ; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft...
Side 78 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay — There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view ; I knew him well, and every truant knew: Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he...
Side 273 - Honour and shame from no Condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Side 122 - Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more ; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep...
Side 206 - Of Gilbert Walmsley, thus presented to my mind, let me indulge myself in the remembrance. I knew him very early ; he was one of the first friends that literature procured me, and I hope that at least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me.
Side 74 - Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth.