English lands, leters and kings; Queen Anne and the GeorgesC. Scribner's sons, 1907 |
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... . Fragments of his sombre - colored and magniloquent Night Thoughts are still frequently encountered in Commonplace Books of Poetry ; while some of his picturesque or full - freighted lines , or half 16 QUEEN ANNE & THE GEORGES.
... . Fragments of his sombre - colored and magniloquent Night Thoughts are still frequently encountered in Commonplace Books of Poetry ; while some of his picturesque or full - freighted lines , or half 16 QUEEN ANNE & THE GEORGES.
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... Thoughts . It had great currency in England , and was admired , and translated , and read largely upon the Continent . For many a year , a copy of Young's mournful , magniloquent poem , bound in morocco and gilt - edged was reckoned one ...
... Thoughts . It had great currency in England , and was admired , and translated , and read largely upon the Continent . For many a year , a copy of Young's mournful , magniloquent poem , bound in morocco and gilt - edged was reckoned one ...
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... us that being on one occasion at a Parliamentary party , where some volumes of original letters were shown , she was specially anxious to see one YOUNG'S NIGHT THOUGHTS of her dear Dr. Young , for 20 QUEEN ANNE & THE GEORGES.
... us that being on one occasion at a Parliamentary party , where some volumes of original letters were shown , she was specially anxious to see one YOUNG'S NIGHT THOUGHTS of her dear Dr. Young , for 20 QUEEN ANNE & THE GEORGES.
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Donald Grant Mitchell. YOUNG'S NIGHT THOUGHTS of her dear Dr. Young , for whose Night Thoughts she expressed enthusiastic admira- tion . Her anxiety was gratified , and she adds . that she had " the mortification to read the most fawning ...
Donald Grant Mitchell. YOUNG'S NIGHT THOUGHTS of her dear Dr. Young , for whose Night Thoughts she expressed enthusiastic admira- tion . Her anxiety was gratified , and she adds . that she had " the mortification to read the most fawning ...
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... thought marrying would put us at once in pos- session of all we wanted . . . . One should pluck up a spirit and live upon cordials , when one can have no other nourishment . These are my present endeavors , and I run about though I have ...
... thought marrying would put us at once in pos- session of all we wanted . . . . One should pluck up a spirit and live upon cordials , when one can have no other nourishment . These are my present endeavors , and I run about though I have ...
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Página 90 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary and cannot impart it; till I am known and do not want it.
Página 13 - We'll crowd thy gates with thankful songs, High as the heavens our voices raise, And Earth, with her ten thousand tongues, Shall fill thy courts with sounding praise.
Página 35 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
Página 306 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never...
Página 241 - That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements, and feelings, and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me.
Página 76 - The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Página 120 - Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose; I still had hopes — for pride attends us still — Amidst the swains to show my...
Página 72 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Página 12 - Sleep, my babe; thy food and raiment, House and home, thy friends provide; All without thy care or payment, All thy wants are well supplied.
Página 96 - YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.