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Of the latter image , the identity is still more obvious ; although it has been
disguised by the change of a myrtle into a flower ; and , perhaps , by a shifting of
the scene from Italy to Arabia Deserta . Why a flower was thought more eligible
than a ...
Of the latter image , the identity is still more obvious ; although it has been
disguised by the change of a myrtle into a flower ; and , perhaps , by a shifting of
the scene from Italy to Arabia Deserta . Why a flower was thought more eligible
than a ...
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Sterne too , whose dissipation was too short - lived , completely to destroy in him
the seeds of sensibility and nature , has described , in a book of which perhaps
one fifth part is worth reading , the sympathies of surrounding friends , as ...
Sterne too , whose dissipation was too short - lived , completely to destroy in him
the seeds of sensibility and nature , has described , in a book of which perhaps
one fifth part is worth reading , the sympathies of surrounding friends , as ...
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... belong rather to the species of fiction than to the individual fable , and that all
romantic tales must bear the same resemblance to poetic narrative , which
appears , perhaps , a little more decidedly than usual in the instance now
adduced .
... belong rather to the species of fiction than to the individual fable , and that all
romantic tales must bear the same resemblance to poetic narrative , which
appears , perhaps , a little more decidedly than usual in the instance now
adduced .
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... Minstrelsy , Vol . III . Part 3 . There may perhaps be an appearance of undue
freedom towards our admirable poet , in the very act of associating his name so
pointedly and unreservedly as I have , with that of another writer , who , after all
254.
... Minstrelsy , Vol . III . Part 3 . There may perhaps be an appearance of undue
freedom towards our admirable poet , in the very act of associating his name so
pointedly and unreservedly as I have , with that of another writer , who , after all
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For this error , if such you deem it , I can only plead in excuse the zeal arising
from attachment to a long cherished opinion , and from a warm , perhaps a
romantic wish , that it may prove wellfounded . The unclaimed honours of the
novelist ...
For this error , if such you deem it , I can only plead in excuse the zeal arising
from attachment to a long cherished opinion , and from a warm , perhaps a
romantic wish , that it may prove wellfounded . The unclaimed honours of the
novelist ...
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Página 54 - Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Página 3 - 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.
Página 9 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favorite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Página 4 - Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death?
Página 8 - 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.
Página 1 - ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD / THE CURFEW tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Página 104 - Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace. With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.
Página 2 - The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed...
Página 7 - E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance, by lonely Contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, — Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn...
Página 5 - Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...