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... language ; unstudied , and alike redundant of fancy , feeling , and of thought . The curiosity of the public , however , so natural and so laudable , as to the early history of Cowper , the formation of his character , and the remote ...
... language ; unstudied , and alike redundant of fancy , feeling , and of thought . The curiosity of the public , however , so natural and so laudable , as to the early history of Cowper , the formation of his character , and the remote ...
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... language is not well adapted to the form of the composition , which requires a more copious supply of rhymes than our English terminations afford . In following the Italian model , ( the only legitimate sonnet , ) the poet requires two ...
... language is not well adapted to the form of the composition , which requires a more copious supply of rhymes than our English terminations afford . In following the Italian model , ( the only legitimate sonnet , ) the poet requires two ...
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... language , -not to their amplification , which is too often the case when his pen has the range whole sheet of paper . of The author of the present volume was an accomplished scholar , whose acquirements and early death we incidentally ...
... language , -not to their amplification , which is too often the case when his pen has the range whole sheet of paper . of The author of the present volume was an accomplished scholar , whose acquirements and early death we incidentally ...
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... We all know that it is possible for a man to contract a Polyglott of all the dead and living languages into the compass of a little hat - crown , without - without he or the world being one whit the 46 Barlow on Magnetic Attractions .
... We all know that it is possible for a man to contract a Polyglott of all the dead and living languages into the compass of a little hat - crown , without - without he or the world being one whit the 46 Barlow on Magnetic Attractions .
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... language but had fail'd to paint The meaning fraught in that one look , that said , " Oh ! not to die is painful ! not to quit This world - but thus to part , and go , alas ! Where thou canst never follow ! thus to die , And meet no ...
... language but had fail'd to paint The meaning fraught in that one look , that said , " Oh ! not to die is painful ! not to quit This world - but thus to part , and go , alas ! Where thou canst never follow ! thus to die , And meet no ...
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admiration Ahasuerus Alasco amusing Anacreon antient appear Aristophanes Asia Minor Ballitore beautiful Boards Brahmin Bushmen called Captain character Christian circumstance Cowper death degree duty effect England English Eski-shehr father feeling FOUCHÉ France French friends Girondists give Greece Greek hand heart Howard human Igloolik interest Ionic order island Italy Jacobins JOSEPH FOUCHÉ King knowlege lady language less letters living Lord magnetic manner means Memoirs ment merit mind native nature never object observed occasion opinion original party passages peculiar perhaps person Pisthetarus poem poet poetical poetry present principles R. B. Sheridan racter readers Redgauntlet religion religious remarks respect says scarcely scene seems sentiments shew ships Sicily soon Spaewife Spain species specimen spirit style talents thee thing thou tion translation volume whole words writer young
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Página 288 - O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Página 57 - Is there under the heavens a more glorious and refreshing object, of the kind, than an impregnable hedge, of about four hundred feet in length, nine feet high, and five in diameter, which I can...
Página 304 - Words become general, by being made the signs of general ideas ; and ideas become general, by separating from them the circumstances of time, and place, and any other ideas, that may determine them to this or that particular existence.
Página 266 - I'll example you with thievery: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea: the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun...
Página 386 - Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past; which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done...
Página 173 - At this season of the year, and in this gloomy uncomfortable climate, it is no easy matter for the owner of a mind like mine, to divert it from sad subjects, and fix it upon such as may administer to its amusement.
Página 438 - The Atrocities of the Pirates; being a Faithful Narrative of the Unparalleled Sufferings endured by the author during his captivity among the Pirates of the Island of Cuba; with an Account of the Excesses and Barbarities of those Inhuman Freebooters.
Página 171 - No voice divine the storm allayed, No light propitious shone, When, snatched from all effectual aid, We perished, each alone : But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he.
Página 344 - Italy ; and if they have the same effect on your temper, they will have just the same effects upon your interest ; and be your merit what it will, you will never be employed to paint a picture. It will be the same at London as at Rome ; and the same in Paris as in London : for the world is pretty nearly alike in all its parts...
Página 169 - THERE is in souls a sympathy with sounds, And as the mind is pitched the ear is pleased With melting airs or martial, brisk or grave ; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touched within us, and the heart replies.