Mornings in Spring: Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Volume 1J. Murray, 1828 |
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... character , costume , and incidents of times long gone by , the youth and spring - tide , as it were , of our national existence . I close this first number of my work with a me- trical delineation of some of the sentiments and imagery ...
... character , costume , and incidents of times long gone by , the youth and spring - tide , as it were , of our national existence . I close this first number of my work with a me- trical delineation of some of the sentiments and imagery ...
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... character and modes of thinking through mature and even advanced years . More especially at this critical epoch is the literary bias formed for life , when the mind , just be- ginning to emerge from the discipline of the schools , is ...
... character and modes of thinking through mature and even advanced years . More especially at this critical epoch is the literary bias formed for life , when the mind , just be- ginning to emerge from the discipline of the schools , is ...
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... character of this accomplished patrician , estimating it , as in charity we ought to do , not by a comparison with the Christian standard , but with that which then constituted the general tone and colour of the best informed society in ...
... character of this accomplished patrician , estimating it , as in charity we ought to do , not by a comparison with the Christian standard , but with that which then constituted the general tone and colour of the best informed society in ...
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... character of the original in being too diffuse , a result which was scarcely to be expected from one who has told us in his Preface , that " what a celebrated ancient has observed concerning the style of the famous Grecian painter ...
... character of the original in being too diffuse , a result which was scarcely to be expected from one who has told us in his Preface , that " what a celebrated ancient has observed concerning the style of the famous Grecian painter ...
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... character which I have given of the general tendency and bearing of the writings of Pliny . The first is taken from the third letter in the collection addressed to Caninius Rufus , who appears , from the close of it , to have been a man ...
... character which I have given of the general tendency and bearing of the writings of Pliny . The first is taken from the third letter in the collection addressed to Caninius Rufus , who appears , from the close of it , to have been a man ...
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Page 89 - To kings, that fear their subjects' treachery ? O, yes it doth ; a thousand-fold it doth. And to conclude, — the shepherd's homely curds, His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle, His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade, All which secure and sweetly he enjoys, Is far beyond a prince's delicates, His viands sparkling in a golden cup, • His body couched in a curious bed, When care, mistrust, and treason wait on him.
Page 217 - Armour rusting in his halls On the blood of Clifford calls ; — " Quell the Scot," exclaims the Lance — Bear me to the heart of France, Is the longing of the Shield...
Page 251 - And glimmered all the dead men's mail. Blazed battlement and pinnet high, Blazed every rose-carved buttress fair — So still they blaze, when fate is nigh The lordly line of high St Clair.
Page 167 - Is constant love deem'd there but want of wit? Are beauties there as proud as here they be? Do they above love to be loved, and yet Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?
Page 255 - Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove, Far from the clamorous world, doth live his own ; Though solitary, who is not alone, But doth converse with that eternal Love. O how more sweet is bird's harmonious moan, Or the hoarse sobbings of the widow'd dove, Than those smooth whisperings near a prince's throne, Which good make doubtful, do the evil approve...
Page 270 - SWEET bird, that sing'st away the early hours Of winters past, or coming, void of care, Well pleased with delights which present are; Fair seasons, budding sprays, sweet-smelling flowers, To rocks, to springs, to rills, from leafy bowers, Thou thy Creator's goodness dost declare, And what dear gifts on thee he did not spare. A stain to human sense in sin that lowers. What soul can be so sick, which by thy songs...
Page 217 - Love had he found in huts where poor men lie ; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Page 238 - And sudden, as he spoke, From the sharp ridges of the hill, All downward to the banks of Till, Was wreathed in sable smoke. Volumed and fast, and rolling far, The cloud enveloped Scotland's war, As down the hill they broke ; Nor martial shout, nor minstrel tone, Announced their march; their tread alone, At times one warning trumpet blown, At times a stifled hum, Told England, from his mountain-throne King James did rushing come.
Page 207 - The fairest productions of human wit, after a few perusals, like gathered flowers, wither in our hands, and lose their fragrancy ; but these unfading plants of paradise become, as we are accustomed to them, still more and more beautiful; their bloom appears to be daily heightened ; fresh odours are emitted, and new sweets extracted from them. He who hath once tasted their excellencies, will desire to taste them yet again ; and he who tastes them oftenest, will relish them best.
Page 154 - Your dear self can best witness the manner, being done in loose sheets of paper, most of it in your presence, the rest by sheets l sent unto you, as fast as they were done.