Letters Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807, Volume 1George Ramsay, 1811 |
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... composition of odes , and he- roic verses , to fabricating riddles and charards ! Thus employed , his mind is somewhat in the same predicament with Hercules's body , when he sat amongst the women , and handled the dis- taff . Dr Darwin ...
... composition of odes , and he- roic verses , to fabricating riddles and charards ! Thus employed , his mind is somewhat in the same predicament with Hercules's body , when he sat amongst the women , and handled the dis- taff . Dr Darwin ...
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... composition . When this is the case , it is injudicious to publish such inconclusive testi- monies . Several letters of his have appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine , that could interest no one by their intrinsic vigour . They will be ...
... composition . When this is the case , it is injudicious to publish such inconclusive testi- monies . Several letters of his have appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine , that could interest no one by their intrinsic vigour . They will be ...
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... compositions , will probably prove a source of delight , worthy to be admitted into the number of angelic gratifications . Grate- ful to the purest nature must be the conscious- ness that we had employed the talents committed to our ...
... compositions , will probably prove a source of delight , worthy to be admitted into the number of angelic gratifications . Grate- ful to the purest nature must be the conscious- ness that we had employed the talents committed to our ...
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... composition . It is true , where I know that a brilliant or su- blime work has proceeded from a hand I love , that consciousness increases the delight I feel in ex- amining its features ; but the delight must first spring from the merit ...
... composition . It is true , where I know that a brilliant or su- blime work has proceeded from a hand I love , that consciousness increases the delight I feel in ex- amining its features ; but the delight must first spring from the merit ...
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... composition . He often thinks my approbation too glowing , I his too coy ; but we are perfectly in unison concerning the strength and fertility of imagination in your letters , and in the poems of Hayley . Mr Dewes agreed with me , that ...
... composition . He often thinks my approbation too glowing , I his too coy ; but we are perfectly in unison concerning the strength and fertility of imagination in your letters , and in the poems of Hayley . Mr Dewes agreed with me , that ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Adieu admire agreeable amiable amongst ANNA SEWARD Avignon bard beautiful benevolence blank verse celebrated character charming cold composition criticism dear delight Dewes Dr Johnson elegant envy Epic Poetry epithets excellence eyes fame fancy father feel flattering friendship genius gentleman Gentleman's Magazine GEORGE HARDINGE Gibraltar glow graces happiness Hayley Hayley's heart honour hope idea imagination ingenious interest Knowles lady late LETTER Lichfield light literary Lord Lucy Porter lyre Madam March 25 Milton mind MISS WESTON Monody morning muse nature never nymph observe odes Ossian Paradise Lost passages pathetic perhaps Petrarch Piozzi pleasure poem poet poetic poetry praise prose regret rendered rhyme rocks scene sensibility Seward Shakespeare shew sonnet Sophia spirit style sublime sure sweet talents taste thou tion translation truth Vaucluse verse virtues Whalley WILLIAM HAYLEY wish writings youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 212 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice...
Página 350 - Thyself how wondrous then! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these Thy lowest works : yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine. Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, Angels ! for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night, Circle his throne rejoicing : ye in heaven, On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Página 346 - Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
Página 110 - This pow'r has praise that virtue scarce can warm, Till fame supplies the universal charm. Yet Reason frowns on War's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name; And mortgag'd states their grandsires...
Página 201 - Back to the gates of heaven : the sulphurous hail, Shot after us in storm, o'erblown, hath laid The fiery surge, that from the precipice Of heaven received us falling ; and the thunder, Wing'd with red lightning and impetuous rage, Perhaps hath spent his shafts, and ceases now To bellow through the vast and boundless deep.
Página 19 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Página 243 - ... sounds, That the fix'd sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch: Fire answers fire; and through their paly flames Each battle sees the other's umber'd face: Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents, The armourers, accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation.
Página 110 - The festal blazes, the triumphal show, The ravish'd standard, and the captive foe, The senate's thanks, the gazette's pompous tale, With force resistless o'er the brave prevail. Such bribes the rapid Greek o'er Asia whirl'd, For such the steady Romans shook the world...
Página 180 - Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Página 225 - The seat of Desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful?