Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807, Band 1A. Constable, 1811 - 432 Seiten |
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... letter " its Writer will be no more . While she " lives she must wish Mr CONSTABLE all 66 66 manner of good , and that he may en- joy it to a late period of human life . " ANNA SEWARD . " It was in this manner that these letters came ...
... letter " its Writer will be no more . While she " lives she must wish Mr CONSTABLE all 66 66 manner of good , and that he may en- joy it to a late period of human life . " ANNA SEWARD . " It was in this manner that these letters came ...
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... LETTER II . MISS WESTON * . Lichfield , Oct. 29 , 1784 . -- I have lately been in the almost daily habit of contemplating a very melancholy spectacle . The great Johnson is here , labouring under the pa- roxysms of a disease , which ...
... LETTER II . MISS WESTON * . Lichfield , Oct. 29 , 1784 . -- I have lately been in the almost daily habit of contemplating a very melancholy spectacle . The great Johnson is here , labouring under the pa- roxysms of a disease , which ...
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... LETTER III . REV . T. S. WHALLEY . Lichfield , Nov. 7 , 1784 . Large is my debt to you , dear friend , for those exquisite , those living descriptions of the Alpine scenery , with which you have favoured me . You enable me to see their ...
... LETTER III . REV . T. S. WHALLEY . Lichfield , Nov. 7 , 1784 . Large is my debt to you , dear friend , for those exquisite , those living descriptions of the Alpine scenery , with which you have favoured me . You enable me to see their ...
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... Ere long , I hope , this filial happiness will lure you back to England ; —and may it yet be long ere you and I find ourselves deprived for ever of its sacred gra- tifications ! LETTER IV . WM . HAYLEY , Esq . Lichfield 12 LETTER III .
... Ere long , I hope , this filial happiness will lure you back to England ; —and may it yet be long ere you and I find ourselves deprived for ever of its sacred gra- tifications ! LETTER IV . WM . HAYLEY , Esq . Lichfield 12 LETTER III .
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... letter : " I have lately made a most agreeable excursion to Lausanne , through the beautiful Pays de Vaud , accompanied by a young Danish nobleman of great merit , fine talents , and polished manners . The situation of Lausanne pleased ...
... letter : " I have lately made a most agreeable excursion to Lausanne , through the beautiful Pays de Vaud , accompanied by a young Danish nobleman of great merit , fine talents , and polished manners . The situation of Lausanne pleased ...
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Adieu admire agreeable amiable amongst ANNA SEWARD Avignon bard beautiful benevolence blank verse celebrated character charming cold composition criticism dear delight Dewes Dr Johnson elegant envy Epic Poetry epithets excellence eyes fame fancy father feel flattering genius gentleman Gentleman's Magazine GEORGE HARDINGE Gibraltar glow graces happiness Hayley Hayley's heart honour hope hour idea imagination ingenious interest Knowles lady late LETTER Lichfield light literary Lord Lucy Porter lyre Madam March 25 Milton mind MISS WESTON Monody morning muse nature never nymph observe odes Ossian Paradise Lost passages perhaps Petrarch Piozzi pleasure poem poet poetic poetry praise prose regret rendered rhyme rocks scene sensibility Seward Shakespeare shew sonnet Sophia spirit style sublime sure sweet talents taste thou tion truth Vaucluse verse virtues Whalley WILLIAM HAYLEY wish writings youth
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Seite 218 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice...
Seite 360 - Thyself how wondrous then! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these Thy lowest works : yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine. Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, Angels ! for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night, Circle his throne rejoicing : ye in heaven, On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Seite 356 - Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
Seite 110 - This pow'r has praise that virtue scarce can warm, Till fame supplies the universal charm. Yet Reason frowns on War's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name; And mortgag'd states their grandsires...
Seite 19 - Thou sun, of this great world both eye and soul, Acknowledge him thy greater ; sound his praise In thy eternal course, both when thou climb'st, And when high noon hast gain'd, and when thou fall'st.
Seite 207 - Wing'd with red lightning and impetuous rage, Perhaps hath spent his shafts, and ceases now To bellow through the vast and boundless deep.
Seite 219 - Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers.
Seite 360 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Seite 218 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill...
Seite 66 - he would hang a dog that read the ' Lycidas ' of Milton twice." " What, then," replied I, " must become of me, who can say it by heart ; and who often repeat it to myself with a delight, which grows by what it feeds upon ? " " Die," returned the growler,