The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays, Band 1Nathan Drake Suttaby, Evance, and Company, 1811 |
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... , written for the Free - Thinker ; and which display a con- siderable share of imagination , and an undeviating attention to rectitude of precept . 1 No. V. Ut pictura poësis . HORATIUS . Poems and NO . 4 . 29 THE GLEANER .
... , written for the Free - Thinker ; and which display a con- siderable share of imagination , and an undeviating attention to rectitude of precept . 1 No. V. Ut pictura poësis . HORATIUS . Poems and NO . 4 . 29 THE GLEANER .
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... Poems and Pictures are adjudged alike . COLMAN . DR . Lacon , Mr. Johnson , and myself , were taking a walk one evening last summer , when on a sudden a dark and thick cloud gathered in the east , which was adorned with a beautiful ...
... Poems and Pictures are adjudged alike . COLMAN . DR . Lacon , Mr. Johnson , and myself , were taking a walk one evening last summer , when on a sudden a dark and thick cloud gathered in the east , which was adorned with a beautiful ...
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... an in imitable painter ; but when I reflect upon the beauty , variety , and harmony of the universe , I am apt to consider that as a fine poem , which you look on as a finished picture . " This No. 5 . 31 THE GLEANER .
... an in imitable painter ; but when I reflect upon the beauty , variety , and harmony of the universe , I am apt to consider that as a fine poem , which you look on as a finished picture . " This No. 5 . 31 THE GLEANER .
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... humours of a sot , or a hen - pecked blockhead : this species therefore has a great likeness to the low poets , who write humorous ballads , VOL . I. D farces , and burlesque verse , the end of both NO . 5 . 33 THE GLEANER .
... humours of a sot , or a hen - pecked blockhead : this species therefore has a great likeness to the low poets , who write humorous ballads , VOL . I. D farces , and burlesque verse , the end of both NO . 5 . 33 THE GLEANER .
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... poets ; but they resemble those that describe a graceful or a deformed man . But they are more aptly compared to those poets , who , to celebrate the praises of the fair - one by whose beauty they are captivated , delineate her face ...
... poets ; but they resemble those that describe a graceful or a deformed man . But they are more aptly compared to those poets , who , to celebrate the praises of the fair - one by whose beauty they are captivated , delineate her face ...
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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.