Critical Essays on Some of the Poems of Several English PoetsJames Phillips, 1785 - 386 Seiten |
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... look in a modern poe- tical drefs , I attempted the following version of it , on his plan ; to which if you please to allow a place in your next magazine , you will extremely oblige , Your friend and Hertfordshire , Dec. 18 , 1753 ...
... look in a modern poe- tical drefs , I attempted the following version of it , on his plan ; to which if you please to allow a place in your next magazine , you will extremely oblige , Your friend and Hertfordshire , Dec. 18 , 1753 ...
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... look back fo far to whom this ifle , Owes the first glory of fo brave a pile ; Whether to Cæfar , Albanact , or Brute , The British Arthur , or the Danish C'nute ; ( Though this of old , no less contest did move , Than when for Homer's ...
... look back fo far to whom this ifle , Owes the first glory of fo brave a pile ; Whether to Cæfar , Albanact , or Brute , The British Arthur , or the Danish C'nute ; ( Though this of old , no less contest did move , Than when for Homer's ...
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... look up and are not fed , But fwoln with wind , and the rank mist they draw , Rot inwardly , and foul contagion spread . Dr. Johnson's infinuation , that there is in it a confufion of the actual feeder * There seems some ambiguity in ...
... look up and are not fed , But fwoln with wind , and the rank mist they draw , Rot inwardly , and foul contagion spread . Dr. Johnson's infinuation , that there is in it a confufion of the actual feeder * There seems some ambiguity in ...
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... looks , Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes , That on the green turf fuck the honied fhowers , And purple all the ground with vernal flowers . Bring the rathe primrose that forfaken dies , The tufted crowtoe , and pale jessamine ...
... looks , Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes , That on the green turf fuck the honied fhowers , And purple all the ground with vernal flowers . Bring the rathe primrose that forfaken dies , The tufted crowtoe , and pale jessamine ...
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... Looks tow'rds Namancos and Bayona's hold ; Look homeward angel now , and melt with ruth : And O ye dolphins waft the hapless youth ! The common conclufion of a funeral elegy , is the beatification of the deceaf- ed . Milton has not ...
... Looks tow'rds Namancos and Bayona's hold ; Look homeward angel now , and melt with ruth : And O ye dolphins waft the hapless youth ! The common conclufion of a funeral elegy , is the beatification of the deceaf- ed . Milton has not ...
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Seite 149 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Seite 38 - And all their echoes, mourn. The willows and the hazel copses green Shall now no more be seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays. As killing as the canker to the rose...
Seite 192 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Seite 156 - The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Seite 245 - When time advances, and when lovers fail, She then shines forth, solicitous to bless, In all the glaring impotence of dress.
Seite 214 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...
Seite 218 - Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man...
Seite 100 - Be full, ye courts ; be great who will ; Search for peace with all your skill ; Open wide the lofty door, Seek her on the marble floor ; In vain...
Seite 229 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.
Seite 161 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th