PoemsMoxon, 1860 - 306 pages |
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Page iii
... Verse , my leisure's best resource , When through the world it steals its secret course , Revive but once a generous wish supprest , Chase but a sigh or charm a care to rest ; In one good deed a fleeting hour employ , Or flush one faded ...
... Verse , my leisure's best resource , When through the world it steals its secret course , Revive but once a generous wish supprest , Chase but a sigh or charm a care to rest ; In one good deed a fleeting hour employ , Or flush one faded ...
Page xiv
... verses in Latin , nor perhaps give them a very exact knowledge of the dead lan- guages . But he taught them to perceive the beauties of the great authors that they were studying , and to admire excellence as well in conduct as in ...
... verses in Latin , nor perhaps give them a very exact knowledge of the dead lan- guages . But he taught them to perceive the beauties of the great authors that they were studying , and to admire excellence as well in conduct as in ...
Page xx
... verses before these , but he did not think them good enough to be made public . This small volume he published without his name , from a natural doubt whether it would be favourably received . The longer Poem , the Ode , would be put in ...
... verses before these , but he did not think them good enough to be made public . This small volume he published without his name , from a natural doubt whether it would be favourably received . The longer Poem , the Ode , would be put in ...
Page xxxi
... verses Horne Tooke afterwards gave him his copy of Chaucer's Works in black letter , full of manuscript notes , and with an account of his being arrested and taken to the Tower written in the margin . In 1796 , Mr. Rogers was summoned ...
... verses Horne Tooke afterwards gave him his copy of Chaucer's Works in black letter , full of manuscript notes , and with an account of his being arrested and taken to the Tower written in the margin . In 1796 , Mr. Rogers was summoned ...
Page xlvi
... verse , and some against the neatness and compactness of the sentences . Byron would have belonged to the old school , if he had followed his own judgment . As the readers were de- lighted with Childe Harold , he wrote accordingly ; but ...
... verse , and some against the neatness and compactness of the sentences . Byron would have belonged to the old school , if he had followed his own judgment . As the readers were de- lighted with Childe Harold , he wrote accordingly ; but ...
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