Literary Hours; Or, Sketches, Critical, Narrative, and PoeticalT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804 |
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... length at noontide would he stretch , And pore upon the brook that babbles by . Many passages which powerfully appeal to the heart , and which may , indeed , be esteemed very striking instances of the pathetic , Lucre- tius has ...
... length at noontide would he stretch , And pore upon the brook that babbles by . Many passages which powerfully appeal to the heart , and which may , indeed , be esteemed very striking instances of the pathetic , Lucre- tius has ...
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... length here fixt it ; o'er the hapless house Of PANDION hovering , and th ' astonish'd race Dooming by thousands to disease and death . The head first flam'd with inward heat , the eyes Redden'd with fire suffus'd ; the purple jaws ...
... length here fixt it ; o'er the hapless house Of PANDION hovering , and th ' astonish'd race Dooming by thousands to disease and death . The head first flam'd with inward heat , the eyes Redden'd with fire suffus'd ; the purple jaws ...
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... length discovered such a situation , fell fast asleep upon some withered leaves . His dog sat watching at his feet , a small bundle of linen and a staff were placed beside him , and the red rays of the declining sun , having pierced ...
... length discovered such a situation , fell fast asleep upon some withered leaves . His dog sat watching at his feet , a small bundle of linen and a staff were placed beside him , and the red rays of the declining sun , having pierced ...
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... length awoke ; a cold sweat trickled over his forehead ; every muscle shook with horror ; and , kneeling by the body of Gothre , he wept aloud . " Where is my Fanny ! " he exclaimed ; " Where shall I find her ! oh that thou hadst told ...
... length awoke ; a cold sweat trickled over his forehead ; every muscle shook with horror ; and , kneeling by the body of Gothre , he wept aloud . " Where is my Fanny ! " he exclaimed ; " Where shall I find her ! oh that thou hadst told ...
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... length loudly and frequently repeated . Wolkmar , starting from the ground , sighed with anxiety and ex- pectation ; leaning forward , he would have listened , but the beating of his heart appalled him . The dog who , at first alarmed ...
... length loudly and frequently repeated . Wolkmar , starting from the ground , sighed with anxiety and ex- pectation ; leaning forward , he would have listened , but the beating of his heart appalled him . The dog who , at first alarmed ...
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Abbassides Adeline admiration ancient Arabians arms Bagdad Bard beautiful beneath blank verse bosom breathe burst caliph castle charms composition dark death deep delight diction dreadful Dyer eclogue elegant Empedocles Ennius Epicurus excellence exquisite eyes fancy feeling Fitzowen Fleece Genebrard genius gloomy gothic Gothre heard heart Henry horror idea imagery imagination kind light LORENZO de Medici Lucretius Mammon mankind melancholy ment merit Milton mind mingled moon moral Muse nature night NUMBER o'er Ommiades Ossian pale Paradise Lost passage passions pastoral pastoral poetry pathetic perhaps Petrarch pleasure poem poet poetic poetry possess quæ reader romantic scene scenery sentiment Shakspeare sigh simplicity soft song sonnets sorrow soul species specimen spirit stood stream style sublime superstition sweet Tasso taste tender terror thee Theocritus thou thought thro tion translation trees vale vault verse versification Virgil Walleran whilst wild wind Wolkmar wood youth
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Seite 375 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Seite 337 - ... which broke their waves, and turned them into foam : and sometimes I beguiled time by viewing the harmless lambs, some leaping securely in the cool shade, whilst others sported themselves in the cheerful sun ; and saw others craving comfort from the swollen udders of their bleating dams. As I thus sat, these and other sights had so fully possessed my soul with content, that I thought, as the poet has happily expressed it, " I was for that time lifted above earth, And possessed joys not promised...
Seite 195 - Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course; they on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Seite 411 - A pillar of state : deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat, and public care : And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic though in ruin...
Seite 338 - As I left this place, and entered into the next field, a second pleasure entertained me : 'twas a handsome milkmaid, that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to load her mind with any fears of many things that will never be...
Seite 331 - Tis night, and the landscape is lovely no more ; I mourn, but, ye woodlands, I mourn not for you; For morn is approaching, your charms to restore, Perfumed with fresh fragrance, and glittering with dew: Nor yet for the ravage of Winter I mourn ; Kind Nature the embryo blossom will save. But when shall Spring visit the mouldering urn? O, when shall it dawn on the night of the grave?
Seite 33 - Nor wife, nor children more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The deadly Winter seizes ; shuts up sense ; And, o'er his inmost vitals creeping cold, Lays him along the snows, a stiffen'd Corse, 320 Stretch'd out, and bleaching in the northern blast.
Seite 325 - Wrapt in a pleasing fit of melancholy, To meditate my rural minstrelsy, Till fancy had her fill. But ere a close The wonted roar was up amidst the woods...
Seite 398 - And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter; and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.
Seite 33 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.