The seasons, with the life of the author: to which are added Hesiod, or the Rise of woman, and the Hermit, by Parnell; together with Henry and Emma, by Prior1808 - 339 ページ |
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... give some account of a deceased friend is often a piece of justice likewise , which ought not to be refused to his memory , to prevent or efface the im- pertinent fictions which officious biographers are so apt to collect and propagate ...
... give some account of a deceased friend is often a piece of justice likewise , which ought not to be refused to his memory , to prevent or efface the im- pertinent fictions which officious biographers are so apt to collect and propagate ...
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... give offence ; but the ministry , still sore from certain pasquinades , which had lately produced the stage - act ; and as little satisfied with some parts of the Prince's political conduct , as he was with their management of the ...
... give offence ; but the ministry , still sore from certain pasquinades , which had lately produced the stage - act ; and as little satisfied with some parts of the Prince's political conduct , as he was with their management of the ...
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... always weakens the higher poetry , and , to a true ear , will sometimes give it an air of the burlesque . This was the last piece Mr. Thomson himself pu- blished ; his tragedy of Coriolanus being only pre- pared THOMSON'S LIFE . 25.
... always weakens the higher poetry , and , to a true ear , will sometimes give it an air of the burlesque . This was the last piece Mr. Thomson himself pu- blished ; his tragedy of Coriolanus being only pre- pared THOMSON'S LIFE . 25.
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... give the reader . Only one gentleman , Mr. Collins , who had lived some time at Richmond , but forsook it when Mr. Thomson died , wrote an Ode to his memory . This , for the dirge- like melancholy it breathes , and the warmth of ...
... give the reader . Only one gentleman , Mr. Collins , who had lived some time at Richmond , but forsook it when Mr. Thomson died , wrote an Ode to his memory . This , for the dirge- like melancholy it breathes , and the warmth of ...
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... gives us in an awoved faithful paraphrase or translation ; as we see in a few passages taken from Virgil , and in that beautiful picture from Pliny the elder , where the course , and gradual increase , of the Nile , are figured by the ...
... gives us in an awoved faithful paraphrase or translation ; as we see in a few passages taken from Virgil , and in that beautiful picture from Pliny the elder , where the course , and gradual increase , of the Nile , are figured by the ...
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amid art thou beam beauteous beauty bending beneath blaze blooming bosom boundless breast breath breeze bright CASTLE OF INDOLENCE charms chearful clouds Coriolanus crouds darting deep delight dreadful earth Emma Emma's ether exalts fair faithless fancy fate fierce flame flocks flood gale gentle gloom glow grace groves happy heart heaven Henry Hesiod hills JAMES THOMSON light maid matchless maze mind mingled mix'd mountains Muse Nature Nature's night Nut-brown Maid Nymph o'er passion peace plain pleas'd poison'd pride race rage rapture rills rise roar rocks roll round rove rural scene season shade shine silvan sing smiles snow soft song soul spread Spring storm stream stretch'd swain sweet swelling tempest tender thee THOMAS PARNELL Thomson thou thought thro toil trembling Twas Typhon vale vex'd virtue walk wandering waste wave wild winds wing woods youth
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242 ページ - Ah! little think the gay licentious proud, "Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround ; They who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ;— Ah ! little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain...
87 ページ - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
275 ページ - But wandering oft, with brute unconscious gaze, Man marks not thee, marks not the mighty hand, That, ever busy, wheels the silent spheres; Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring...
63 ページ - Every copse Deep-tangled, tree irregular, and bush Bending with dewy moisture, o'er the heads Of the coy quiristers that lodge within, Are prodigal of harmony.
177 ページ - A native grace Sat fair-proportion'd on her polish'd limbs, Veil'd in a simple robe, their best attire, * Beyond the pomp of dress ; for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.
39 ページ - COME, gentle SPRING ! ethereal Mildness ! come, And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While Music wakes around, veil'd in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend.
234 ページ - Hush'd in deep silence, sleep ye when 'tis calm ? When from the pallid sky the sun descends, With many a spot, that o'er his glaring orb Uncertain wanders, stain'd ; red fiery streaks Begin to flush around.
276 ページ - Burst from the Groves! and when the restless day, Expiring, lays the warbling world asleep, Sweetest of birds! sweet Philomela, charm The listening shades, and teach the Night His praise. Ye chief, for whom the whole creation smiles, At once the head, the heart, and tongue of all, Crown the great hymn!
292 ページ - He stopp'd with silence, walk'd with trembling heart, And much he wish'd, but durst not ask to part ; Murmuring he lifts his eyes, and thinks it hard That generous actions meet a base reward. While thus they pass, the sun his glory shrouds, The changing skies hang out their sable clouds ; A sound in air presag'd approaching rain, And beasts to covert scud across the plain. Warn'd by the signs, the wandering pair retreat To seek for shelter at a neighboring seat.
233 ページ - Nature! great parent! whose unceasing hand Rolls round the seasons of the changeful year, How mighty, how majestic, are thy works ! With what a pleasing dread they swell the soul!