Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807, Band 1A. Constable, 1811 - 432 Seiten |
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... poetic imagery , may tend somewhat to obscure their real merit . But when this peculiarity is got over , the reader , it is presumed , cannot fail to be struck with the many intellectual and moral excellencies which they dis- play . He ...
... poetic imagery , may tend somewhat to obscure their real merit . But when this peculiarity is got over , the reader , it is presumed , cannot fail to be struck with the many intellectual and moral excellencies which they dis- play . He ...
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... poet must be unwilling to re- nounce the fable as a source of allusion . Poetic taste surely welcomes it in Mr Hayley's animated couplet concerning the female poets of this coun- try , in his EPISTLES ON EPIC POETRY , — “ The bards of ...
... poet must be unwilling to re- nounce the fable as a source of allusion . Poetic taste surely welcomes it in Mr Hayley's animated couplet concerning the female poets of this coun- try , in his EPISTLES ON EPIC POETRY , — “ The bards of ...
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... poet scruples to describe an elegant di- minutive female by the expression , fairy - form , or to impersonize unpropitious darkness by calling it —that witch , the night ? We must not be too strict with the bards in our demands for the ...
... poet scruples to describe an elegant di- minutive female by the expression , fairy - form , or to impersonize unpropitious darkness by calling it —that witch , the night ? We must not be too strict with the bards in our demands for the ...
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... poet , take Newton away ; When , O wonderful speech ! in the tone of a ghost , The meek modest sage thus petition'd to stay : " Dear irascible bard , be a little more just , Nor thy sculptor accuse of a careless transaction , In the ...
... poet , take Newton away ; When , O wonderful speech ! in the tone of a ghost , The meek modest sage thus petition'd to stay : " Dear irascible bard , be a little more just , Nor thy sculptor accuse of a careless transaction , In the ...
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... from our bright fountain of poetic light . Till I feel more assured hope of your restoration to health , I shall look forward to the gratification of this curiosity in that sort of languor with which a 24 LETTER VII . William Hayley, Esq.
... from our bright fountain of poetic light . Till I feel more assured hope of your restoration to health , I shall look forward to the gratification of this curiosity in that sort of languor with which a 24 LETTER VII . William Hayley, Esq.
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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,