Critical Essays on Some of the Poems of Several English PoetsJames Phillips, 1785 - 386 Seiten |
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... dome , o'er hung with darksome trees , Where thick damp walls this raging heat reprefs , Where the long aifle invites the lazy breeze ! The The critic obferves that this stanza is very little , JOHN SCOTT , Efq . xxix.
... dome , o'er hung with darksome trees , Where thick damp walls this raging heat reprefs , Where the long aifle invites the lazy breeze ! The The critic obferves that this stanza is very little , JOHN SCOTT , Efq . xxix.
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John Scott, John Hoole. The critic obferves that this stanza is very little , if at all , inferior to Virgil's with in the like fituation . O quis me gelidis fub montibus Homi Siftat , et ingenti ramorum protegat umbra ! Such was the ...
John Scott, John Hoole. The critic obferves that this stanza is very little , if at all , inferior to Virgil's with in the like fituation . O quis me gelidis fub montibus Homi Siftat , et ingenti ramorum protegat umbra ! Such was the ...
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... stanza are fimilar , with regard to the notation of time ; the verbs are all in the fimple preterite ; and if the measure of the verfe would have allowed the omiffion of the auxiliar has , this line would have been of the same structure ...
... stanza are fimilar , with regard to the notation of time ; the verbs are all in the fimple preterite ; and if the measure of the verfe would have allowed the omiffion of the auxiliar has , this line would have been of the same structure ...
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... , is faid in the first two lines of the stanza , ' Let not , & c . ' that is faid in the third and fourth ; but the ite- * See page 43 . ration is a climax that impreffes the idea with additional ration 198 CRITICAL ESSAYS .
... , is faid in the first two lines of the stanza , ' Let not , & c . ' that is faid in the third and fourth ; but the ite- * See page 43 . ration is a climax that impreffes the idea with additional ration 198 CRITICAL ESSAYS .
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... stanza is characterized by energy , and melody , in the highest degree . Poe- try attains her purpose by various ways ; fometimes by fingle , and fometimes by combined efforts ; and where variety does not produce confufion , it often ...
... stanza is characterized by energy , and melody , in the highest degree . Poe- try attains her purpose by various ways ; fometimes by fingle , and fometimes by combined efforts ; and where variety does not produce confufion , it often ...
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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...