The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays, Band 1Nathan Drake Suttaby, Evance, and Company, 1811 |
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... pieces that concerned navigation , and his ma- thematical instruments . Resentment against his officer , who had ill used him , made him look forward on this change of life as the more eligible one , till the instant in which he saw the ...
... pieces that concerned navigation , and his ma- thematical instruments . Resentment against his officer , who had ill used him , made him look forward on this change of life as the more eligible one , till the instant in which he saw the ...
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... pieces great design , generous sentiments , and the dignity of the sublime style , animate their canvass with the ... piece they are filled with horror and consternation , and in another they melt with tender affection . What poetical ...
... pieces great design , generous sentiments , and the dignity of the sublime style , animate their canvass with the ... piece they are filled with horror and consternation , and in another they melt with tender affection . What poetical ...
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... pieces of the painter , who often sits to the poet , while he forms his ideas ; and , inspired by the lively and passionate figures expressed in colours , translates the painter , and turns the picture into verse . The sister arts , to ...
... pieces of the painter , who often sits to the poet , while he forms his ideas ; and , inspired by the lively and passionate figures expressed in colours , translates the painter , and turns the picture into verse . The sister arts , to ...
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... of which so many great spirits have in all ages been ani- mated and pushed on to the most hazardous enterprizes . As it is the property of heroic pieces of paint . ing , as well as of epic poems , to NO . 6 , 39 THE GLEANER .
... of which so many great spirits have in all ages been ani- mated and pushed on to the most hazardous enterprizes . As it is the property of heroic pieces of paint . ing , as well as of epic poems , to NO . 6 , 39 THE GLEANER .
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... pieces of devotion which are frequent in foreign coun- tries , who can view in our own the cartoons of Raphael , and see Ananias struck dead in an instant by the breath of an apostle , and not receive awful impressions of divine ...
... pieces of devotion which are frequent in foreign coun- tries , who can view in our own the cartoons of Raphael , and see Ananias struck dead in an instant by the breath of an apostle , and not receive awful impressions of divine ...
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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.