Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807, Band 1A. Constable, 1811 - 432 Seiten |
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... expected , he said , " Come , my dear lady , let you and I attend these gentlemen in the study . " He received them with more than usual compla → cence ; but whimsically chose to get astride upon his chair - seat , with his face to its ...
... expected , he said , " Come , my dear lady , let you and I attend these gentlemen in the study . " He received them with more than usual compla → cence ; but whimsically chose to get astride upon his chair - seat , with his face to its ...
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... expected , yet most well do I know that I could not deserve those indulgent testimonies of satisfaction from my audience . They were twice repeated on the close of my strain ; and when the concert was over , several elegant ladies ...
... expected , yet most well do I know that I could not deserve those indulgent testimonies of satisfaction from my audience . They were twice repeated on the close of my strain ; and when the concert was over , several elegant ladies ...
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... envy of contemporary ri- vals ; but I little expected to hear a man of ge- nius , who writes poetry very finely himself , with- out being a candidate for public honours in that line , and who is , therefore , unlikely to LETTER XLIII . 195.
... envy of contemporary ri- vals ; but I little expected to hear a man of ge- nius , who writes poetry very finely himself , with- out being a candidate for public honours in that line , and who is , therefore , unlikely to LETTER XLIII . 195.
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... expected . As he is abroad , I hoped it might not reach his ear till after its accomplish¬ ment . Officious information has precluded that hope , and his reluctance on the subject will throw great difficulty in your way , in the ...
... expected . As he is abroad , I hoped it might not reach his ear till after its accomplish¬ ment . Officious information has precluded that hope , and his reluctance on the subject will throw great difficulty in your way , in the ...
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... expected to be minutely exact ; it is enough , if the general resemblance is striking . That author did not mean that time had made the frolic compositions of Chaucer heavy as lead - he uses not the word , but says " dark as lead ...
... expected to be minutely exact ; it is enough , if the general resemblance is striking . That author did not mean that time had made the frolic compositions of Chaucer heavy as lead - he uses not the word , but says " dark as lead ...
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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,