Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807, Band 1A. Constable, 1811 - 432 Seiten |
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... Piozzi , and by his acknowledged virtues . I perfectly agree with you as to the genius and spirit of Cowper's beautiful poem , The Task ; yet I somewhat wonder at the confidence with which it inspires you in the goodness of his heart ...
... Piozzi , and by his acknowledged virtues . I perfectly agree with you as to the genius and spirit of Cowper's beautiful poem , The Task ; yet I somewhat wonder at the confidence with which it inspires you in the goodness of his heart ...
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... PIOZZI completely answers your descrip- tion ; -her conversation is that bright wine of the intellects which has no lees . Your letter , that was to have introduced us to each other , did not reach me till three days after she and Mr Piozzi ...
... PIOZZI completely answers your descrip- tion ; -her conversation is that bright wine of the intellects which has no lees . Your letter , that was to have introduced us to each other , did not reach me till three days after she and Mr Piozzi ...
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... Piozzi ; but , as they desired me to bring any of my friends in the af- ternoon , I took his timid Philomela in my hand . Never had Mr Piozzi two beings of his audience who were more charmed with his perfect expres- sion on his ...
... Piozzi ; but , as they desired me to bring any of my friends in the af- ternoon , I took his timid Philomela in my hand . Never had Mr Piozzi two beings of his audience who were more charmed with his perfect expres- sion on his ...
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... Piozzi . Dr Johnson told me truth when he said she had more colloquial wit than most of our li- terary women . It is indeed a fountain of perpe- tual flow ; but he did not tell me truth when he asserted that Piozzi was an ugly dog ...
... Piozzi . Dr Johnson told me truth when he said she had more colloquial wit than most of our li- terary women . It is indeed a fountain of perpe- tual flow ; but he did not tell me truth when he asserted that Piozzi was an ugly dog ...
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... Piozzi is an handsome man , in middle life , with gentle , pleas- ing , and unaffected manners , and with very emi- nent skill in his profession . Though he has not a powerful or fine toned voice , he sings with tran- scending grace and ...
... Piozzi is an handsome man , in middle life , with gentle , pleas- ing , and unaffected manners , and with very emi- nent skill in his profession . Though he has not a powerful or fine toned voice , he sings with tran- scending grace and ...
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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,