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... Second . The tragedy of The Brothers , which was already in rehearsal , he immediately withdrew from the ftage . The managers refigned it with fome reluctance to the délicacy of the new clergyman . The Epilogue to The Brothers , the ...
... Second . The tragedy of The Brothers , which was already in rehearsal , he immediately withdrew from the ftage . The managers refigned it with fome reluctance to the délicacy of the new clergyman . The Epilogue to The Brothers , the ...
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... Second , elaborated by the fearches and deliberations of twenty years , and published with fuch anxiety as only yanity can dictate . The ftory of this publication is re- markable . The whole work was printed twice over , a great part of ...
... Second , elaborated by the fearches and deliberations of twenty years , and published with fuch anxiety as only yanity can dictate . The ftory of this publication is re- markable . The whole work was printed twice over , a great part of ...
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... Second . The book was at last pointed and printed , and sent into the world . Lyttelton took money for his copy , of which , when he had . paid the Pointer , he probably gave the reft away ; for he was very liberal to the indigent ...
... Second . The book was at last pointed and printed , and sent into the world . Lyttelton took money for his copy , of which , when he had . paid the Pointer , he probably gave the reft away ; for he was very liberal to the indigent ...
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... , it is nonfenfe ; if it be faid of Water , it is nothing to the purpose . The second stanza , exhibiting Mars's car and Jove's eagle , is unworthy of further further notice . Criticism difdains to chase a school - GRAY . 25.
... , it is nonfenfe ; if it be faid of Water , it is nothing to the purpose . The second stanza , exhibiting Mars's car and Jove's eagle , is unworthy of further further notice . Criticism difdains to chase a school - GRAY . 25.
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... second ternary of stanzas , the first endeavours to tell fomething , and would have told it , had it not been croffed croffed by Hyperion : the fecond de- fcribes well enough 7 26 GRA Y. further notice. Criticism difdains to chase ...
... second ternary of stanzas , the first endeavours to tell fomething , and would have told it , had it not been croffed croffed by Hyperion : the fecond de- fcribes well enough 7 26 GRA Y. further notice. Criticism difdains to chase ...
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Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets Samuel Johnson Visualização integral - 1781 |
prefaces, biographical and critical, to the works of the english poets. samuel johnson Visualização integral - 1781 |
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Página 18 - Alas ! from the day that we met, What hope of an end to my woes? When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repose. Yet time may diminish the pain: The flower, and the shrub, and the tree, Which I rear'd for her pleasure in vain, In time may have comfort for me.
Página 17 - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
Página 6 - Mallet, without any imaginable reason of preference which the eye or ear can discover. What other proofs he gave of disrespect to his native country, I know not ; but it was remarked of him, that he was the only Scot whom Scotchmen did not commend.
Página 60 - O how divine ! to tread the milky way, To the bright palace of the lord of day ; His court admire, or for his favour sue, Or leagues of friendship with his saints renew...
Página 9 - A physician in a great city seems to be the mere plaything of fortune; his degree of reputation is, for the most part, totally casual — they that employ him know not his excellence; they that reject him know not his deficience. By any acute observer who had looked on the transactions of the medical world for half a century a very curious book might be written on the "Fortune of Physicians.
Página 23 - The Prospect of Eton College suggests nothing to Gray, which every beholder does not equally think and feel.
Página 43 - Short was his joy. He little knew The power of Magic was no fable ; Out of the window, whisk, they flew, But left a spell upon the table.
Página 13 - Westmoreland and Cumberland. He that reads his epistolary narration wishes, that to travel, and to tell his travels, had been more of his employment ; but it is by studying at home that we must obtain the ability of travelling with intelligence and improvement.
Página 17 - twas a barbarous deed. For he ne'er could be true, she averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its young ; And I lov'd her the more, when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue.
Página 6 - Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his prospects, to diversify his surface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters ; which he did with such judgment and such fancy, as made his little domain the envy of the great, and the admiration of the skilful ; a place to be visited by travellers, and copied by designers.