Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk: To which is Added, Postscript Addressed to Samuel T. ColeridgeJames and John Harper, no. 138 Fulton-Street, 1820 - 520 páginas |
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... poet has expressed when he speaks of " all that mighty beart ! " And yet there is no lack of food for enthusiasm even here . Here is the capital of an ancient , independent , and heroic na- tion , abounding in buildings ennobled by the ...
... poet has expressed when he speaks of " all that mighty beart ! " And yet there is no lack of food for enthusiasm even here . Here is the capital of an ancient , independent , and heroic na- tion , abounding in buildings ennobled by the ...
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... poet , you know , has gone even far- ther than this , when he says , τῶν δε πεπραγμένων Εν δίκα τε και παραδικαν Αποίητον εδ ' αν Χρονος έ παντων πατηρ Δυναιτο θέμεν εργων τέλος . As the Scotch nation could boast of no great philosophi ...
... poet , you know , has gone even far- ther than this , when he says , τῶν δε πεπραγμένων Εν δίκα τε και παραδικαν Αποίητον εδ ' αν Χρονος έ παντων πατηρ Δυναιτο θέμεν εργων τέλος . As the Scotch nation could boast of no great philosophi ...
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... Poet . The speech with which he prefaced the toast was delivered with all the ease of a practised speaker , and was by no means devoid of traces of proper feeling . But , I confess , on the whole , its effect was to 62 PETER'S LETters .
... Poet . The speech with which he prefaced the toast was delivered with all the ease of a practised speaker , and was by no means devoid of traces of proper feeling . But , I confess , on the whole , its effect was to 62 PETER'S LETters .
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... poetic fire , " & c . Nor were the fine verses of Milton much more appropriate to the occasion , although their own grandeur would proba- bly have prevented them from being at all disagreeable in the ... poet . But , PETER'S LETTERS . 6 $
... poetic fire , " & c . Nor were the fine verses of Milton much more appropriate to the occasion , although their own grandeur would proba- bly have prevented them from being at all disagreeable in the ... poet . But , PETER'S LETTERS . 6 $
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... poet . But , in the first place , it is not easy to understand why a man should be chosen to direct and guide the enthusiasm of a meeting in honour of Robert Burns , merely because he , himself , enjoys a tolerable degree of reputation ...
... poet . But , in the first place , it is not easy to understand why a man should be chosen to direct and guide the enthusiasm of a meeting in honour of Robert Burns , merely because he , himself , enjoys a tolerable degree of reputation ...
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admiration afford already Anti-burghers appearance barrister bave beautiful believe Blackwood's Magazine blue-stocking burgh character church countenance croupier David David Hume DAVID WILLIAMS dear delightful dinner display doubt Edin Edinburgh Review effect eloquence entirely Ettrick exertion expression eyes face feeling genius gentleman give Glasgow head hear heard honour ideas imagine intellect Jeffrey kind Kirk ladies least less living look Lord manner means ment mind nature never noble observed occasion Old Mortality once P. M. LETTER painter perhaps person Peter Morris physiognomy poet possessed Presbyterian present produced profession Professor regard remarkable render respect rich Robert Burns scarcely scene Scot Scotch Scotland Scottish seems seen side society sort speak species Speculative Society spirit style sufficient suppose sure thing thought tion true truth walk Whigs whole wonder words young
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Página 308 - In that fair Clime, the lonely Herdsman, stretched On the soft grass through half a summer's day, With music lulled his indolent repose : And, in some fit of weariness, if he, When his own breath was silent, chanced to hear A distant strain, far sweeter than the sounds Which his poor skill could make, his Fancy fetched, Even from the blazing Chariot of the Sun, A beardless Youth, who touched a golden lute, And filled the illumined groves with ravishment.
Página 308 - ... wings, Lacked not, for love, fair objects whom they wooed With gentle whisper. Withered boughs grotesque, Stripped of their leaves and twigs by hoary age, From depth of shaggy covert peeping forth In the low vale, or on steep mountain side; And, sometimes, intermixed with stirring horns Of the live deer, or goat's depending beard,— These were the lurking Satyrs, a wild brood Of gamesome Deities; or Pan himself, The simple shepherd's awe-inspiring God!
Página 78 - From that bleak tenement He, many an evening, to his distant home In solitude returning, saw the hills Grow larger in the darkness; all alone Beheld the stars come out above his head, And travelled through the wood, with no one near To whom he might confess the things he saw.
Página 97 - The darkest pit of lowest Erebus, Nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out By help of dreams — can breed such fear and awe As fall upon us often when we look Into our Minds, into the Mind of Man — 4o My haunt, and the main region of my song.
Página 97 - All strength — all terror, single or in bands, That ever was put forth in personal form — Jehovah — with his thunder, and the choir Of shouting Angels, and the empyreal thrones — I pass them unalarmed.
Página 353 - With solemn touches,* troubled thoughts, and chase Anguish and doubt and fear and sorrow and pain From mortal or immortal minds. Thus they Breathing united force with fixed thought Moved on in silence to soft pipes that charmed Their painful steps o'er the burnt soil...
Página 116 - Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.
Página 69 - Love had he found in huts where poor men lie; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Página 317 - ... chief charm ; the most keen perception, the most tenacious memory, and the most brilliant imagination, having been at work throughout the whole of his busy life, in filling his mind with a store of individual traits and anecdotes, serious and comic, individual and national, such as it is probable no man ever before possessed — and such, still more certainly, as no man of great original power ever before possessed in subservience to the purposes of inventive genius.
Página 437 - Man, earth's thoughtful Lord ; Then, in full many a region, once like this The assured domain of calm simplicity And pensive quiet, an unnatural light, Prepared for never-resting Labour's eyes, Breaks from a many-windowed Fabric...