Critical Essays on Some of the Poems of Several English PoetsJames Phillips, 1785 - 386 Seiten |
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... seems to have lived in a state of great penury and ob- fcurity , and probably would not have been long remembered , but from the circumftance of his having prefided over the first leffons of young Scott , who does not however appear to ...
... seems to have lived in a state of great penury and ob- fcurity , and probably would not have been long remembered , but from the circumftance of his having prefided over the first leffons of young Scott , who does not however appear to ...
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... seems first to have officiated as a diffenting minifter . About the year 1758 , he went to fettle at Lympf- tone in Devonshire , and about the year 1762 , he engaged with the Rev. Mr. Hogg and another gentleman , as tutors and managers ...
... seems first to have officiated as a diffenting minifter . About the year 1758 , he went to fettle at Lympf- tone in Devonshire , and about the year 1762 , he engaged with the Rev. Mr. Hogg and another gentleman , as tutors and managers ...
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... seems to have enjoyed a life of great tranquillity ; gra- tified with the elegant and unblameable pleasures refulting from a well - cultivated mind ; and poffeffed of a wife , whose difpofition insured to him a perpetual fource of ...
... seems to have enjoyed a life of great tranquillity ; gra- tified with the elegant and unblameable pleasures refulting from a well - cultivated mind ; and poffeffed of a wife , whose difpofition insured to him a perpetual fource of ...
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... Seems at this diftance but a darker cloud : And is to him who rightly things esteems , No other in effect , than what it seems . * From London the poet makes a fud- den tranfition to Windfor , and tells us in four dull diffufe couplets ...
... Seems at this diftance but a darker cloud : And is to him who rightly things esteems , No other in effect , than what it seems . * From London the poet makes a fud- den tranfition to Windfor , and tells us in four dull diffufe couplets ...
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... seem But to foretell and prophesy of him , Who to his realms that azure round hath join'd , Which nature for their bound at firft defign'd ; That bound which to the world's extremeft ends , Endlefs itself , its liquid arms extends . In ...
... seem But to foretell and prophesy of him , Who to his realms that azure round hath join'd , Which nature for their bound at firft defign'd ; That bound which to the world's extremeft ends , Endlefs itself , its liquid arms extends . In ...
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Seite 57 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed. And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Seite 246 - 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 44 - 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 263 - Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye, Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired, Where grey-beard mirth and smiling toil retired, Where village statesmen talked with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round.
Seite 261 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
Seite 226 - 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 58 - There entertain him all the saints above In solemn troops, and sweet societies, That sing, and singing, in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes.
Seite 48 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days : But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise...
Seite 195 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th
Seite 250 - 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...