The Poetical Works of Anna Seward: With Extracts from Her Literary Correspondence, Band 1J. Ballantyne and Company, 1810 |
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Adieu adorn ANNA SEWARD beams beauty Behold beneath bloom bosom bowers breath bright brow charms Chatsworth cheerful cold Coriolanus dark David Garrick dear death delight Derbyshire Dr Darwin Dr Johnson dread e'en ELEGY Eloisa EVANDER TO EMILLIA Eyam eyes fair faithless father feel fire flowers friendship gale gilds gleam gloom glow grace grief happy heart hill Honora honour hope letter libertine Lichfield light lonely Lord Charles Fitzroy lover lyre maid marriage mind Miss Seward Mompesson Monody morning mournful Muse night NOTTINGHAMSHIRE numbers nymph o'er pale passed passion peace Petrarch pleasures poem poet poetic poetry rill rising rocks rose round scene shade shine sighs sister smile soft song sorrow soul spirit Spring storm summer sweet taste tears tender thee thine thou thro vale Vaucluse vernal verses Vex'd village virtues warm winds young youth
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Seite lxvi - Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with -love's wound, And maidens call it Love-in-idleness.
Seite cxliv - As bees In spring time, when the sun with Taurus rides, Pour forth their populous youth about the hive In clusters : they among fresh dews and flowers Fly to and fro, or on the smoothed plank, The suburb of their straw-built citadel, New rubb'd with balm, expatiate, and confer Their state affairs : so thick the aery crowd Swarm'd and were straiten'd; till, the signal given, Behold a wonder!
Seite xcvi - THERE is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation ; lampoons and satires, that are written with wit and spirit, are like poisoned darts, which not onlyinflict a wound, but make it incurable.
Seite xxiv - The old blind schoolmaster, John Milton, hath published a tedious poem on the Fall of Man: if its length be not considered as merit, it has no other.
Seite clxvii - ... would exert himself to induce the country round to supply them with necessaries, leaving such provisions as might be requested, in appointed places, and at appointed hours, upon the neighbouring hills. The proposal was punctually complied with ; and it is most remarkable, that when...
Seite xcvi - ... written with wit and spirit, are like poisoned darts, which not only inflict a wound but make it incurable. For this reason I am very much troubled when I see the talents of humour and ridicule in the possession of an illnatured man. There cannot be a greater gratification to a barbarous and inhuman wit, than to stir up sorrow in the heart of a private person, to raise uneasiness among near relations, and to expose whole families to derision, at the same time that he remains unseen and undiscovered....
Seite clxxv - God, stood to my resolution not to leave her in her sickness, who had been so tender a nurse to me in her health. Blessed be God, that he enabled me to be so helpful and consoling to her, for which she was not a little thankful. No worldly business...
Seite xcvii - It is imagined by many, that whenever they aspire to please, they are required to be merry, and to show the gladness of their souls by flights of pleasantry, and bursts of laughter. But, though these men may be for a time heard with applause and admiration, they seldom delight us long. We enjoy them a little, and then retire to easiness and...
Seite xx - VOL. i. b that, even when he had lost consciousness of every thing else, her father retained a sense of her constant and unremitting attentions. There is, in one of her poems, some verses expressive of his situation, while claiming for him a rank among the...
Seite cxxv - I called her wiser than the aged, and grew so saucy to my mother, that she looked grave, and took her pinch of snuff first at one nostril, and then at the other, with swift and angry energy, and her eyes began to grow dark and to flash. 'Tis an odd peculiarity ; but the balls of my mother's eyes change from brown into black, when she feels either indignation or bodily pain.