Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 3J. Sharpe, 1805 - 508 páginas |
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... elegant literature ; and the chief object of his ambition was , to be the associate and com- panion of those who figured as the leaders of the literary world . Nothing could be better calculated for the gra- tification of his desires ...
... elegant literature ; and the chief object of his ambition was , to be the associate and com- panion of those who figured as the leaders of the literary world . Nothing could be better calculated for the gra- tification of his desires ...
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... elegant in his per- in his address fashionable and engaging ; and , independent of his classical acquirements , familiar with the French and Italian . His pas- sions , however , were strong and impetuous , and his vanity equally puerile ...
... elegant in his per- in his address fashionable and engaging ; and , independent of his classical acquirements , familiar with the French and Italian . His pas- sions , however , were strong and impetuous , and his vanity equally puerile ...
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... elegant and useful ; and we have only to lament that he should , in the latter part of his life , have deviated so widely from the maxims that he had himself endeavoured to incul- cate , and which he had the invaluable opportu- nity of ...
... elegant and useful ; and we have only to lament that he should , in the latter part of his life , have deviated so widely from the maxims that he had himself endeavoured to incul- cate , and which he had the invaluable opportu- nity of ...
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... elegant and harmonious , are , on the whole , chill , lifeless , and monotonous ; and his address to the Deity , a subject requiring the utmost efforts of sublimity , has little besides its piety to recom mend it . His poems on the ...
... elegant and harmonious , are , on the whole , chill , lifeless , and monotonous ; and his address to the Deity , a subject requiring the utmost efforts of sublimity , has little besides its piety to recom mend it . His poems on the ...
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... elegant and exact , and affords the English reader a very com- petent idea of perhaps the most pleasing tale in the collection of the Roman Poet . About the year 1712 , Tonson the bookseller , who was desirous of procuring a translation ...
... elegant and exact , and affords the English reader a very com- petent idea of perhaps the most pleasing tale in the collection of the Roman Poet . About the year 1712 , Tonson the bookseller , who was desirous of procuring a translation ...
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Página 67 - Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Página 101 - She, who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting sways, Yet has her humour most, when she obeys...
Página 92 - But o'er the twilight groves and dusky caves, Long-sounding aisles, and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence., and a dread repose: Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades ev'ry flow'r, and darkens ev'ry green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods.
Página 66 - In happy climes, where from the genial sun And virgin earth such scenes ensue, The force of Art by Nature seems outdone, And fancied beauties by the true...
Página 88 - Or o'er the glebe distil the kindly rain; Others on earth o'er human race preside, Watch all their ways, and all their actions guide: Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. 'Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing, though less glorious care; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let th...
Página 297 - Yet e'en in transitory life's late day, That mingles all my brown with sober gray, Revere the man, whose pilgrim marks the road, And guides the progress of the soul to God.
Página 88 - Some to the sun their insect-wings unfold, Waft on the breeze, or sink in clouds of gold ; Transparent forms, too fine for mortal sight, Their fluid bodies half...
Página 161 - And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass. And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders.
Página 20 - O'er which the Cambrian mountains, like far clouds That skirt the blue horizon, dusky rise. Flush'd by the spirit of the genial year, Now from the virgin's cheek a fresher bloom Shoots, less and less, the live carnation round ; Her lips blush deeper sweets ; she breathes of youth ; The shining moisture swells into her eyes, In brighter flow ; her wishing bosom heaves, With palpitations wild ; kind tumults seize Her veins, and all her yielding soul is love. From the keen gaze her lover turns away,...
Página 116 - The sum is this. If man's convenience, health, Or safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all — the meanest things that are, As free to live, and to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all.