The Works, in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone: With Decorations, 第 1 巻J. Dodsley, 1777 |
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... natural curiofity to be acquainted with the hiftory of an author whose works we perufe with pleasure , fome short account of Mr. SHENSTONE's perfonal character , and fitu- ation in life , may not only be agreeable , but abfo- lutely ...
... natural curiofity to be acquainted with the hiftory of an author whose works we perufe with pleasure , fome short account of Mr. SHENSTONE's perfonal character , and fitu- ation in life , may not only be agreeable , but abfo- lutely ...
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... nature , to be half a friend . " He was in his temper quite unfufpi- cious ; but if fufpicion was once awakened in him , it was not laid afleep again without difficulty . He was no œconomist ; the generofity of his temper prevented him ...
... nature , to be half a friend . " He was in his temper quite unfufpi- cious ; but if fufpicion was once awakened in him , it was not laid afleep again without difficulty . He was no œconomist ; the generofity of his temper prevented him ...
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... nature , as it were on purpose to prevent him from rifing too much above that level of imperfection allotted to humanity . His character as a writer will be distinguished by fimplicity with elegance , and genius with correct- nefs ...
... nature , as it were on purpose to prevent him from rifing too much above that level of imperfection allotted to humanity . His character as a writer will be distinguished by fimplicity with elegance , and genius with correct- nefs ...
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... natural , were noble , and always well fup- ported . In the tenderness of elegiac poetry he hath not been excelled ; in the fimplicity of paftoral , one may venture to fay he had very few equals . Of great fenfibility himself , he never ...
... natural , were noble , and always well fup- ported . In the tenderness of elegiac poetry he hath not been excelled ; in the fimplicity of paftoral , one may venture to fay he had very few equals . Of great fenfibility himself , he never ...
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... nature , and that in the earlier part of his life , he hopes they will retain a natural appearance ; diffusing at least fome part of that amusement , which he freely acknowledges he received from the compofition of them . There will ...
... nature , and that in the earlier part of his life , he hopes they will retain a natural appearance ; diffusing at least fome part of that amusement , which he freely acknowledges he received from the compofition of them . There will ...
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186 ページ - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
184 ページ - I fed on the smiles of my dear? They tell me, my favourite maid, The pride of that valley, is flown; Alas ! where with her I have stray'd, I could wander with pleasure, alone.
327 ページ - And soon a flood of tears begins to flow ; And gives a loose at last to unavailing woe. But ah ! what pen his piteous plight may trace ? Or what device his loud laments explain...
323 ページ - Who should not honour'd eld with these revere : For never title yet so mean could prove, But there was eke a Mind which did...
183 ページ - What it is, to admire and to love, And to leave her we love and admire. Ah lead forth my flock in the morn, And the damps of each ev'ning repel ; Alas ! I am faint and forlorn : — I have bade my dear Phyllis farewel.
329 ページ - Ah me ! how much I fear left pride it be ! But if that pride it be, which thus infpires, Beware, ye dames, with nice difcernment fee, Ye quench not too the fparks of nobler fires : Ah ! better far than all the mufes...
186 ページ - I have heard her with sweetness unfold How that pity was due to a dove, That it ever attended the bold ; And she call'd it the sister of love. But her words such a pleasure convey, So much I her accents adore, Let her speak, and whatever she say, Methinks, I should love her the more.
327 ページ - But ah ! what pen his piteous plight may trace ? Or what device his loud laments explain? The form uncouth of his disguised face ? The pallid hue that dyes his looks amain ? The plenteous shower that does his cheek distain...
185 ページ - But a sweet-briar entwines it around. Not my fields in the prime of the year, More charms than my cattle unfold; Not a brook that is limpid and clear, But it glitters with fishes of gold.
77 ページ - Thou gav'ft the fheep that browze Iberian plains : Their plaintive cries the faithlefs region fill, Their fleece adorns an haughty foe's domains. Ill-fated flocks ! from cliff to cliff they ftray ; Far from their dams, their native guardians, far! Where the foft fhepherd, all the livelong day, Chants his proud miftrefs to his hoarfe guittar.