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... beautiful or steady contemplation . Yet , images of natural grandeur and amidst the wild variety of objects wildness which are so observable and obscure disquisitions which in the whole of his writings . At this magical genius contrives ...
... beautiful or steady contemplation . Yet , images of natural grandeur and amidst the wild variety of objects wildness which are so observable and obscure disquisitions which in the whole of his writings . At this magical genius contrives ...
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... beautiful lines to waves of the ocean , and the black the fair , wayward object of his af- adamant of its terrific boundaries . fections . Many of those amatory The celebrated school at Har- morceaux display considerable row , and the ...
... beautiful lines to waves of the ocean , and the black the fair , wayward object of his af- adamant of its terrific boundaries . fections . Many of those amatory The celebrated school at Har- morceaux display considerable row , and the ...
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... beautiful ; stock . When deposited in cellars , possessing the vividness of their they keep good for a length of time living colour , with the transparent At certain hours every day , the clearness of wax imitations . The | market ...
... beautiful ; stock . When deposited in cellars , possessing the vividness of their they keep good for a length of time living colour , with the transparent At certain hours every day , the clearness of wax imitations . The | market ...
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... beautiful quotation they may happen to meet with in the course of their reading , or a brilliant thought of their own , the Oxford Entertaining Miscel- lany will form an highly pleasing com- panion at the breakfast table for its wit ...
... beautiful quotation they may happen to meet with in the course of their reading , or a brilliant thought of their own , the Oxford Entertaining Miscel- lany will form an highly pleasing com- panion at the breakfast table for its wit ...
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... beautiful and celebrated poem , while working amid the din of six or seven men engaged in a similar avocation to his own . From the success of the " Far- mer's Boy , " he was induced to His brother resided at No. 7 , attempt other works ...
... beautiful and celebrated poem , while working amid the din of six or seven men engaged in a similar avocation to his own . From the success of the " Far- mer's Boy , " he was induced to His brother resided at No. 7 , attempt other works ...
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Seite 36 - ... loved the man, and do honour his memory on this side idolatry as much as any. He was, indeed; honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions, wherein he flowed with that facility that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped.
Seite 21 - Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sat on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis ; And ships, by thousands, lay below, And men in nations — all were his ! He counted them at break of day — And when the sun set, where were they ? And where are they ? and where art thou, My country?
Seite 36 - The latter part of his life was spent, as all men of good sense will wish theirs may be, in ease, retirement, and the conversation of his friends. He had the good fortune to gather an estate equal to his occasion, and, in that, to his wish ; and is said to have spent some years before his death at his native Stratford. His pleasurable wit and good nature engaged him in the acquaintance, and entitled him to the friendship, of the gentlemen of the neighbourhood.
Seite 34 - Warwickshire for some time and shelter himself in London. It is at this time, and upon this accident, that he is said to have made his first acquaintance in the playhouse. He was received into the company then in being, at first in a very mean rank...
Seite 35 - D'Avenant, who was probably very well acquainted with his affairs, I should not have ventured to have inserted, that my lord Southampton at one time gave him a thousand pounds, to enable him to go through with a purchase which he heard he had a mind to...
Seite 21 - The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
Seite 22 - Trust not for freedom to the Franks They have a king who buys and sells; In native swords, and native ranks, The only hope of courage dwells: But Turkish force, and Latin fraud, Would break your shield, however broad.
Seite 34 - He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and, amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlcote, near Stratford.
Seite 35 - He had the honour to meet with many great and uncommon marks of favour and friendship from the earl of Southampton, famous in the histories of that time for his friendship to the unfortunate earl of Essex.
Seite 34 - Upon his leaving school, he seems to have given entirely into that way of living which his father proposed to him ; and in order to settle in the world after a family manner, he thought fit to marry while he was yet very young. His wife was the daughter of one Hathaway, said to have been a substantial yeoman in the neighbourhood of Stratford.