The British Essayists: LoungerJ. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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230 ページ - Seasons" wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shows him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses.
228 ページ - Where, in their blessings, all those gods appear. See Pan with flocks, with fruits Pomona crown'd, Here blushing Flora paints th...
192 ページ - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
226 ページ - A god impels the winds. A god pours out the rivers. Grapes are the gift of Bacchus. Ceres presides over the harvest. Orchards are the care of Pomona. Does a shepherd sound his reed on the summit of a mountain — it is Pan, who with his pastoral pipe returns the amorous lay. When the...
229 ページ - As a writer, he is entitled to one praise of the highest kind ; his mode of thinking, and of expressing his thoughts, is original. His blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley. His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own growth, without transcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius...
22 ページ - I have generally remarked, that people did so only because they could not do better : 'tis like pleading privilege for a debt which a man's own funds do not enable him to pay. A great man may, perhaps, be well-bred in a manner which little people do not understand ; but, trust me, he is a greater man who is well-bred in a manner that every body understands.
260 ページ - His genius seems qualified for describing more beautiful scenes and objects of external nature, and for delineating with the embellishments of allegory some passions and affections of the human mind. Still, however, his imagination is employed among beautiful and engaging, rather than among awful and magnificent images; and even when he presents us with dignified objects, he is more grave than lofty, more solemn than sublime, as in the following passage : Now see ! the spreading gates unfold, Display'd...
13 ページ - Whitlocke talks of one Milton, as he calls him, a blind man, who was employed in translating a treaty with Sweden into Latin.
178 ページ - LOUNGER. .29. cordial intimacy during all the rest of his life. Besides the emoluments arising from this appointment, as well as from a very extensive private business, he now drew largely from a field which required some degree of speculative sagacity to...
293 ページ - Egypt, or if the objects it had presented to my view in my sleep were the consequence of the promulgation of a similar law in our country. Upon the appointed day, I fancied that I accompanied the whole inhabitants of the province to the palace of the governor. On our arrival we were shown into a hall of vast extent, at one end of which, on something like a throne, sat the...