The British Essayists: ConnoisseurJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... kind of loose blank verse , which appeared to him the happiest parallel of the iambic of the ancients . This performance gained him much credit , though his choice of an ambiguous measure , which was neither verse nor prose , did iv ...
... kind of loose blank verse , which appeared to him the happiest parallel of the iambic of the ancients . This performance gained him much credit , though his choice of an ambiguous measure , which was neither verse nor prose , did iv ...
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... kind ; the translation of Ho- race's Art of Poetry is also added . A parally tic stroke , with which he was seized in 1789 , af- fected his understanding , so as to bring on symptoms of derangement , ending in idiotcy . In consequence ...
... kind ; the translation of Ho- race's Art of Poetry is also added . A parally tic stroke , with which he was seized in 1789 , af- fected his understanding , so as to bring on symptoms of derangement , ending in idiotcy . In consequence ...
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... kind , and gave him a permanent dislike to the system of pub- lic education . As through family interest the honourable and lucrative place of clerk to the House of Lords had been provided for him , he was entered at the Temple for the ...
... kind , and gave him a permanent dislike to the system of pub- lic education . As through family interest the honourable and lucrative place of clerk to the House of Lords had been provided for him , he was entered at the Temple for the ...
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... kind affections , and more inclined to compassion than severity , yet , like the melan- choly Jacques , most invectively he pierceth through The body of the country , city , court . These pieces are written in rhymed heroics , which he ...
... kind affections , and more inclined to compassion than severity , yet , like the melan- choly Jacques , most invectively he pierceth through The body of the country , city , court . These pieces are written in rhymed heroics , which he ...
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... kind of Dutch style of painting , which has wasted the powers of de- scription upon objects not worth the pains ; but Cowper himself is generally preserved by good taste from this degradation of his art . The pious and moral reflections ...
... kind of Dutch style of painting , which has wasted the powers of de- scription upon objects not worth the pains ; but Cowper himself is generally preserved by good taste from this degradation of his art . The pious and moral reflections ...
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132 ページ - Of all the days that's in the week I dearly love but one day — And that's the day that comes betwixt A Saturday and Monday...
353 ページ - And shrieking owls which fly i' the night alone ; The tolling bell, which for the dead rings out ; A mill, where rushing waters run about ; The roaring winds, which shake the cedars tall, Plough up the seas, and beat the rocks withal. She loves to walk in the still moonshine night, And in a thick dark grove she takes delight; In hollow caves, thatch'd houses, and low cells, She loves to live, and there alone she dwells.
6 ページ - This coffee-house is every night crowded with men of parts. Almost every one you meet is a polite scholar and a wit. Jokes and bans mots are echoed from box to box ; every branch of literature is critically examined, and the merit of every production of the press, or performance at the theatres, weighed and determined.
143 ページ - Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my latter end be like his.
9 ページ - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to shew virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form and pressure.
82 ページ - But we will have a merry jeast, For to be talked long : You shall make me a bond...
291 ページ - We also wrote our lovers' names upon bits of paper, and rolled them up in clay, and put them into water ; and the first that rose up was to be our Valentine. Would you think it ? Mr. Blossom was my man. I lay a-bed and shut my eyes all the morning till he came to our house ; for I would not have seen another man before him for all the world.
84 ページ - (quoth the judge) ' thy crueltie ; I charge thee to do so. Sith needs thou wilt thy forfeit have ; Which is of flesh a pound : See that thou shed no drop of bloud. Nor yet the man confound. For if thou doe, like...
12 ページ - He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?
110 ページ - His body was enwrapped with strange coverings, which concealed every part from sight, except his face and hands. Upon his skin the sun darted his scorching rays in vain, and the colour of it was pale and wan as the watery beams of the moon. His hair, which he could put on and take off at pleasure, was white as the blossoms of the almond-tree, and bushy as the fleece of the ram.