Specimens of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices, and An Essay on English Poetry, Band 5Thomas Campbell J. Murray, 1819 |
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... nature , weary And long oppressed with woes and bending cares , May lay the burthen down , and sink in slumbers Of peace eternal . Death , grim death , will fold Me in his leaden arms , and press me close To his cold clayey breast : My ...
... nature , weary And long oppressed with woes and bending cares , May lay the burthen down , and sink in slumbers Of peace eternal . Death , grim death , will fold Me in his leaden arms , and press me close To his cold clayey breast : My ...
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... nature law , But free the youth your power enslaves : Her form , like yours , bright Cynthia saw , Reflected on the crystal waves ; Yet priz'd not all her charms above The pleasure of Endymion's love . VOL . IV . No longer let your ...
... nature law , But free the youth your power enslaves : Her form , like yours , bright Cynthia saw , Reflected on the crystal waves ; Yet priz'd not all her charms above The pleasure of Endymion's love . VOL . IV . No longer let your ...
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... nature . If the allusion to Phillips was over- looked , they could only be relished as travesties of Virgil , for Bowzybeus himself would not be laugh- able unless we recollected Silenus . Gay's Trivia seems to have been built upon the ...
... nature . If the allusion to Phillips was over- looked , they could only be relished as travesties of Virgil , for Bowzybeus himself would not be laugh- able unless we recollected Silenus . Gay's Trivia seems to have been built upon the ...
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... crowd , Sings with a note so shrilling sweet and loud ; Nor parish - clerk , who calls the psalm so clear , Like Bowzybeus , soothes th ' attentive ear . VOL . IV . D Of nature's laws his carols first begun , Why the JOHN GAY , 33.
... crowd , Sings with a note so shrilling sweet and loud ; Nor parish - clerk , who calls the psalm so clear , Like Bowzybeus , soothes th ' attentive ear . VOL . IV . D Of nature's laws his carols first begun , Why the JOHN GAY , 33.
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... nature's laws his carols first begun , Why the grave owl can never face the sun . For owls , as swains observe , detest the light , And only sing and seek their prey by night . How turnips hide their swelling heads below ; And how the ...
... nature's laws his carols first begun , Why the grave owl can never face the sun . For owls , as swains observe , detest the light , And only sing and seek their prey by night . How turnips hide their swelling heads below ; And how the ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Æsop ALLAN RAMSAY beneath Biron blest bliss BORN bosom breast breath bright charms COLLEY CIBBER crown'd Cuddy dear death delight e'er earth Ev'n eyes face fair fame fancy fate fear fond gentle GEORGE LILLO GEORGE SEWELL give grace grave Grongar Hill hair hand happy hast head hear heart heaven heel I three JOHN VANBRUGH Jove LEONARD WELSTED live Lord Lubberkin maid Metis mind Moria mortal Muse ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er pain peace plain pleas'd pleasure poet praise pride rise round seem'd shade shining sighs sing sleep smile soft song soon soul spleen swain sweet swelling sylphs taste tears tell Thalestris thee THOMAS WARTON thou thought trembling turn me thrice Twas Venus vows ween WILLIAM SHENSTONE Wilm Wilmot wind wings wretch youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 220 - Sent forth a sleepy horror through the blood ; And where this valley winded out, below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow.
Seite 121 - A brighter wash; to curl their waving hairs, Assist their blushes, and inspire their airs; Nay oft, in dreams, invention we bestow, To change a flounce, or add a furbelow.
Seite 332 - Wide and wider spreads the vale, As circles on a smooth canal : The mountains round, unhappy fate ! Sooner or later, of all height, Withdraw their summits from the skies, And lessen as the others rise : Still...
Seite 135 - Unless good Sense preserve what Beauty gains : That Men may say, when we the Front-box grace, Behold the first in Virtue as in Face...
Seite 136 - And trust me, dear ! good-humour can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail. Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll ; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Seite 130 - And screen'd in shades from day's detested glare, She sighs for ever on her pensive bed, Pain at her side, and Megrim at her head.
Seite 112 - The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death ! where is thy sting ? The Universal Prayer FATHER of all!
Seite 121 - Planets through the boundless Sky. Some less refin'd, beneath the Moon's pale Light Pursue the Stars that shoot athwart the Night ; Or suck the Mists in grosser Air below, Or dip their Pinions in the painted Bow, Or brew fierce Tempests on the wintry Main, Or o'er the Glebe distil the kindly Rain.
Seite 312 - TO EVENING. If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, May hope, chaste eve, to soothe thy modest ear, Like thy own solemn springs, Thy springs, and dying gales...
Seite 42 - India's coast we sail, Thy eyes are seen in diamonds bright; Thy breath is Afric's spicy gale, Thy skin is ivory so white. Thus every beauteous object that I view, Wakes in my soul some charm of lovely Sue. Though battle call me from thy arms. Let not my pretty Susan mourn ; Though cannons roar, yet safe from harms, William shall to his dear return. Love turns aside the balls that round me fly, Lest precious tears should drop from Susan's eye.