The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays, Band 1Nathan Drake Suttaby, Evance, and Company, 1811 |
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... kind as he doth in the others , he confounds two or three charac- ters . It is not the muse , the lover , the swain , or the god , but Bavius at hard labour in his study . A nice and subtle judgment in poetry hath , in all polite ...
... kind as he doth in the others , he confounds two or three charac- ters . It is not the muse , the lover , the swain , or the god , but Bavius at hard labour in his study . A nice and subtle judgment in poetry hath , in all polite ...
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... kind in the choice of the most exquisite and elegant satisfaction . It is yet further an en- couragement to men of fine spirits and beautiful imaginations , to have their works exhibited advantageously to the world , and rescued from ...
... kind in the choice of the most exquisite and elegant satisfaction . It is yet further an en- couragement to men of fine spirits and beautiful imaginations , to have their works exhibited advantageously to the world , and rescued from ...
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... kind within the circle of his acquaintance ; and , for my own part , I know too many , to be un- concerned at the growth of a folly , which creates so much uneasiness in the soul , and fills it with legions of foreign fears which have ...
... kind within the circle of his acquaintance ; and , for my own part , I know too many , to be un- concerned at the growth of a folly , which creates so much uneasiness in the soul , and fills it with legions of foreign fears which have ...
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... kind , which excite equal admira- tion and pleasure . With what wonderful success has nature painted all the scenes of this theatre , the world ! How masterly are her designs , how strong and bold her draughts , how delicate her touches ...
... kind , which excite equal admira- tion and pleasure . With what wonderful success has nature painted all the scenes of this theatre , the world ! How masterly are her designs , how strong and bold her draughts , how delicate her touches ...
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... kind of Painting and Poetry , there is but one principal agent , and but one chief action , to which all the other real or imaginary characters in a regular subordination must be referred . If this relation and connection of the ...
... kind of Painting and Poetry , there is but one principal agent , and but one chief action , to which all the other real or imaginary characters in a regular subordination must be referred . If this relation and connection of the ...
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admirable Æneid Alibez ancient appeared Aristotle beauty behold body BOSCAWEN Braminto brother countenance court daugh desire Didius Julianus Divine dress ears entertained epic poetry eyes fairy fancy father favour fear Florio FREE-THINKER gentleman give hand happy heart heaven Homer honour human imagination Jupiter kicking kind king King Henry's chapel kingdom labour ladies late learning Leonidas liberty likewise lived look lover LUCRETIUS mandarine manner marriage ment mind morning nature never observed pain paper passed passion Persia person petrifaction pleased pleasure poem poetry poets prince prove Pulcheria queen readers reason riches Romans ruin scene seemed sense sensible shew sight soon soul spirit spleen Texel thing thought tion told took true turned tutior UNIVERSAL SPECTATOR verger Virgil virtue whole wife wish woman writing young youth
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Seite 260 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Seite 182 - Where — taming thought to human pride !The mighty chiefs sleep side by side. Drop upon Fox's grave the tear, 'Twill trickle to his rival's bier ; O'er PITT'S the mournful requiem sound, And Fox's shall the notes rebound. The solemn echo seems to cry, ' Here let their discord with them die. Speak not for those a separate doom, Whom Fate made Brothers in the tomb ; But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like agen...
Seite 328 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd, — It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd, — It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest : it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown...
Seite 122 - To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man: And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began.
Seite 53 - With quicken'd step, Brown night retires. Young day pours in apace, And opens all the lawny prospect wide. The dripping rock, the mountain's misty top, Swell on the sight, and brighten with the dawn.
Seite 4 - ... the Scriptures, and turning his thoughts upon the study of navigation, after the space of eighteen months he grew thoroughly reconciled to his condition.
Seite 182 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Seite 182 - Here, where the end of earthly things Lays heroes, patriots, bards, and kings ; Where stiff the hand, and still the tongue, Of those who fought, .and spoke, and sung ; Here, where the fretted aisles prolong The distant notes of holy song, As if some angel spoke agen, All peace on earth, good-will to men...
Seite 194 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.