Literary Hours: Or, Sketches Critical and Narrative, Band 1J. Burkitt, 1800 |
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... Arabian Herdsman . Virgil in his Georgics , and Thom- , son in his Summer and Winter , have had recourse to similar expedients , and have given us extended descriptions of the polar and tropical parts of the globe , yet ...
... Arabian Herdsman . Virgil in his Georgics , and Thom- , son in his Summer and Winter , have had recourse to similar expedients , and have given us extended descriptions of the polar and tropical parts of the globe , yet ...
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... arabian imagery into the eclogue , but we seldom meet with it in poetry of a higher cast . Dyer however has appositely interwoven into his Fleece a most delightful picture of these wandering people . The weary Arabs roam from plain to ...
... arabian imagery into the eclogue , but we seldom meet with it in poetry of a higher cast . Dyer however has appositely interwoven into his Fleece a most delightful picture of these wandering people . The weary Arabs roam from plain to ...
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... Arabian Tales . Haroun was the most potent monarch of his race , a lover of learning , art and science , a warrior of the first fame , and indefatigable in the administration of the laws ; he repeatedly travelled through his provinces ...
... Arabian Tales . Haroun was the most potent monarch of his race , a lover of learning , art and science , a warrior of the first fame , and indefatigable in the administration of the laws ; he repeatedly travelled through his provinces ...
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... Arabian Nights Entertainments , though in general merely considered as a work of extravagant fiction , their reader will be indebted for much genuine information relative to the domestic habits of the court and people of Bagdad , as ...
... Arabian Nights Entertainments , though in general merely considered as a work of extravagant fiction , their reader will be indebted for much genuine information relative to the domestic habits of the court and people of Bagdad , as ...
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... Arabian Poetry with which Mr. Carlyle has lately favored the world , are three Songs by Mashdud , Rakeek and Rais , Improvisatori Poets in Bagdad ; these are accompanied with a preface which as giving , in the opinion of the Professor ...
... Arabian Poetry with which Mr. Carlyle has lately favored the world , are three Songs by Mashdud , Rakeek and Rais , Improvisatori Poets in Bagdad ; these are accompanied with a preface which as giving , in the opinion of the Professor ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Adeline admiration ancient Arabian arms Bagdad bard beautiful Belial beneath blank verse bosom breathe burst caliph castle charms Christ composition dark death deep delight demons diction dreadful Dyer earth eclogue elegant Empedocles Ennius Epicurus excellence exquisite eyes fancy feeling Fitzowen Fleece friends genius gloomy gothic Gothre hand heard heart heaven Henry horror imagery imagination kind light Lorenzo de Medici Lucretius Mammon melancholy ment merit Milton mind mingled moral Muse nature night NUMBER o'er Ommiades Ossian pale Paradise Lost passage pastoral pathetic perhaps Petrarch pictoresque pleasure poem poet poetic poetry possess quæ reader Roman Satan scene scenery sentiment Shakspeare sigh simplicity soft song sonnets sorrow soul species specimen spirit stood stream style sublime superstition sweet Tasso taste tender terror thee Theocritus thou thro tion trees vale vault verse versification Virgil Walleran whilst wild William of Malmsbury wind Wolkmar youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 195 - Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear ; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Seite 375 - Daughters; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Seite 409 - With lust and violence the house of God? In courts and palaces he also reigns, And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury, and outrage: And when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
Seite 411 - A pillar of state : deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat, and public care : And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic though in ruin...
Seite 66 - With fairest flowers Whilst summer lasts and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave: thou shalt not lack The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose, nor The azured harebell, like thy veins, no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Seite 331 - Now gliding remote, on the verge of the sky, The moon half extinguished her crescent displays ; But lately I marked, when majestic on high She shone, and the planets were lost in her blaze. Roll on, thou fair orb, and with gladness pursue The path that conducts thee to splendor again : But man's faded glory what change shall renew? Ah, fool...
Seite 338 - As I left this place, and entered into the next field, a second pleasure entertained me : 'twas a handsome milkmaid, that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to load her mind with any fears of many things that will never be...
Seite 412 - On the other side up-rose Belial, in act more graceful and humane : A fairer person lost not Heaven ; he seem'd For dignity compos'd, and high exploit : But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels : for his thoughts were low...
Seite 331 - Tis night, and the landscape is lovely no more ; I mourn, but, ye woodlands, I mourn not for you; For morn is approaching, your charms to restore...
Seite 30 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.