Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin: Chiefly During His Residence in Lichfield, with Anecdotes of His Friends, and Criticisms on His WritingsAt the Classic Press, for W. Poyntell & Company, 1804 - 313 páginas |
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... of the Muses , and on public proof an highly - favoured disciple , you must be interested in the life and character of one of the most eminent of your poetic contemporaries . Hence , my Lord , do I presume to lay 144768.
... of the Muses , and on public proof an highly - favoured disciple , you must be interested in the life and character of one of the most eminent of your poetic contemporaries . Hence , my Lord , do I presume to lay 144768.
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... muses , or be considered as their avowed votary . Occasional little pieces , however , stole at seldom occurring periods from his pen ; though he cautiously preclud- ed their passing the press , before his latent genius for poetry ...
... muses , or be considered as their avowed votary . Occasional little pieces , however , stole at seldom occurring periods from his pen ; though he cautiously preclud- ed their passing the press , before his latent genius for poetry ...
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... muse . It affords fine scope for poetic landscape ; it suggests metamor- 86 * These verses , in their original state , as inscribed here , will be found in Mr. Shaw's History of Staffordshire , published in 1798 , near four years before ...
... muse . It affords fine scope for poetic landscape ; it suggests metamor- 86 * These verses , in their original state , as inscribed here , will be found in Mr. Shaw's History of Staffordshire , published in 1798 , near four years before ...
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... muses , and are patted by those fingers which hold the pen of science ; and every day , with her permission , dip your white whiskers in delicious cream , yet am I not destitute of all advantages of birth , education , and beauty ...
... muses , and are patted by those fingers which hold the pen of science ; and every day , with her permission , dip your white whiskers in delicious cream , yet am I not destitute of all advantages of birth , education , and beauty ...
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... muse had recorded ; to " drink softer effusion from those eyes , " which duty and discretion had rendered repulsive . He soon , however , saw her surrounded by rivals , whose time of life had nearer parity with her own , yet in its ...
... muse had recorded ; to " drink softer effusion from those eyes , " which duty and discretion had rendered repulsive . He soon , however , saw her surrounded by rivals , whose time of life had nearer parity with her own , yet in its ...
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Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin: Chiefly During His Residence in Lichfield ... Anna Seward Visualização integral - 1804 |
Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin: Chiefly During His Residence at Lichfield ... Anna Seward Visualização integral - 1804 |
Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin: Chiefly During His Residence in Lichfield ... Anna Seward Visualização integral - 1804 |
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admired alliteration amid animal Bard beautiful beneath bosom Botanic Garden Botanic Queen breath bright brow Canto charms cold couplet Darwin Darwinian Derby Derbyshire disease dread earth echo elegance eminent epithet excellence fable fair brow fair Charlotte Lynes fame fancy female flowers genius Gnomes Goddess grace heart Homer Hygeia imagery imagination ingenious landscape lence less Lichfield light lovers Matlock memoirs mind Miss morning Muse Naiad nature Needwood Forest Nereid never night Norway rat Nymphs o'er observed Ovid pale Paradise Lost passage passed passion perhaps philosophic picture plant poem poet poetic poetry praise racter reader rill rising rocks round scene Seward shining silver simile Sir Brooke smile Sneyd snow spirit spondee Staffordshire stars sublime sweet Sylphs talents taste thee thesk tion trees truth vale vegetable Venus verse virtues waves winds wings young youth
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Página 219 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Página 310 - There's no prerogative in human hours. In human hearts what bolder thought can rise Than man's presumption on to-morrow's dawn? Where is to-morrow? In another world. For numbers this is certain; the reverse Is sure to none...
Página 220 - And not for justice ? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers, shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honours For so much trash as may be grasped thus?
Página 177 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Página 34 - For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone, By his permissive will, through heaven and earth : And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems...
Página 113 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was...
Página 221 - Sleep no more ! ' to all the house : ' Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor Shall sleep no more ; Macbeth shall sleep no more.
Página 252 - E'en now, e'en now, on yonder Western shores Weeps pale Despair, and writhing Anguish roars : E'en now in Afric's groves with hideous yell Fierce Slavery stalks, and slips the dogs of hell ; From vale to vale the gathering cries rebound, And sable nations tremble at the sound ! — . YE BANDS OF SENATORS!
Página 198 - ... orbs encroach ; Flowers of the sky ! ye too to age must yield, Frail as your silken sisters of the field ! Star after star from Heaven's high arch shall rush, Suns sink on Suns, and systems systems crush, Headlong, extinct, to one dark centre fall, And Death, and Night, and Chaos mingle all ! Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal NATURE lifts her changeful form, Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And soars and shines, another and the same.
Página 43 - It was a platform, with a seat fixed upon a very high pair of wheefs, and supported in the front, upon the back of the horse, by means of a kind of proboscis, which, forming an arch, reached over the hind quarters of the horse, and passed through a ring, placed on an upright piece of iron, which worked in a socket, fixed in the saddle. The...