Literary Hours: Or, Sketches Critical and Narrative, Volume 2J. Burkitt, 1800 |
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... considered as one of the most highly finished scenes in the poetry of antiquity . It has been thus happily trans- lated : Night on the earth pour'd darkness ; on the sea , The wakesome sailor to Orion's star The village dog And Helice ...
... considered as one of the most highly finished scenes in the poetry of antiquity . It has been thus happily trans- lated : Night on the earth pour'd darkness ; on the sea , The wakesome sailor to Orion's star The village dog And Helice ...
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... considered as the most exquisite and finished example in the world of the effect resulting from the intermixture of evening scenery and pathetic reflection . For numerous and varied instances of com- bination of this 68 NO . XXIV .
... considered as the most exquisite and finished example in the world of the effect resulting from the intermixture of evening scenery and pathetic reflection . For numerous and varied instances of com- bination of this 68 NO . XXIV .
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... considered as an admirable copy of , or attempt to rival his manner and style , yet such a one as Pindar would have been proud to own . As to Horace , I know not that from his large collection one ode truly sublime can be produced ...
... considered as an admirable copy of , or attempt to rival his manner and style , yet such a one as Pindar would have been proud to own . As to Horace , I know not that from his large collection one ode truly sublime can be produced ...
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... considered as one of the happiest attempts toward the introduction of this species of metre . Collins's ode on the Popular Super- stitions , after due precedence to that on the Passions , I esteem the noblest effort of his pen , but as ...
... considered as one of the happiest attempts toward the introduction of this species of metre . Collins's ode on the Popular Super- stitions , after due precedence to that on the Passions , I esteem the noblest effort of his pen , but as ...
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... considered the merits of our English lyric poets , and attempted to prove , that in the Sublime , Pa- thetic and Descriptive Ode they are not inferior to the ancients , and in the Amatory make a near approach to their models . For this ...
... considered the merits of our English lyric poets , and attempted to prove , that in the Sublime , Pa- thetic and Descriptive Ode they are not inferior to the ancients , and in the Amatory make a near approach to their models . For this ...
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Literary Hours; Or, Sketches Critical, Narrative, and Poetical, Volume 2 Nathan Drake Visualização integral - 1804 |
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Página 124 - REMOTE, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po ; Or onward, where the rude Carinthian boor Against the houseless stranger shuts the door ; Or where Campania's plain forsaken lies, A weary waste expanding to the skies ; Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravell'd fondly turns to thee ; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
Página 338 - Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft out-watch the Bear With thrice-great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Página 298 - Sovereign of the willing soul, Parent of sweet and solemn-breathing airs, Enchanting shell! the sullen Cares, And frantic Passions, hear thy soft control.
Página 3 - I, clapping my hands cheerily together, that was I in a desert, I would find out wherewith in it to call forth my affections : — if I could not do better, I would fasten them upon some sweet myrtle, or seek some melancholy cypress to connect myself to; — I would court their shade, and greet them kindly for their protection ; — I would cut my name upon them, and swear they were the loveliest trees throughout the desert; — if their leaves withered, I would teach myself to mourn: — and when...
Página 458 - Or gazed in merry clusters by your side ? Ye who can smile — to wisdom no disgrace — At the arch meaning of a kitten's face ; If spotless innocence, and infant mirth, Excites to praise, or gives reflection birth ; In shades like these pursue your favorite joy, Midst Nature's revels, sports that never cloy.
Página 253 - Along the woods, along the moorish fens, Sighs the sad genius of the coming storm ; And up among the loose disjointed cliffs, And fractur'd mountains wild, the brawling brook And cave, presageful, send a hollow moan, Resounding long in listening Fancy's ear.
Página 71 - Inspire my dreams, and my wild wanderings guide ; Your voice each rugged path of life can smooth, For well I know, wherever ye reside, There harmony, and peace, and innocence abide.
Página 229 - I sit by the mossy fountain; on the top of the hill of winds. One tree is rustling above me. Dark waves roll over the heath. The lake is troubled below. The deer descend from the hill. No hunter at a distance is seen. It is mid-day: but all is silent.
Página 242 - There oft is heard, at midnight, or at noon, Beginning faint, but rising still more loud, And nearer, voice of hunters, and of hounds, And horns, hoarse winded, blowing far and keen: — Forthwith the hubbub multiplies; the gale Labours with wilder shrieks, and rifer din Of hot pursuit; the broken cry of deer Mangled by throttling dogs; the shouts of men, And hoofs, thick beating on the hollow hill.
Página 243 - Or thither, where beneath the show'ry west The mighty kings of three fair realms are laid : Once foes, perhaps, together now they rest...