Clifton Grove. Miscellaneous poems. Time. The Christiad. Prose compositions : Remarks on the English poets. Sternhold and Hopkins. Warton. Cursory remarks on tragedy. Melancholy hours. ReflectionsVernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 - English literature |
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... Which now I view , the Chaldee shepherd * gaz'd , In his mid - watch observant , and dispos'd * Alluding to the first astronomical observations , made by the Chaldean shepherds . 1 The twinkling hosts as fancy gave them shape . Yet L 4 151.
... Which now I view , the Chaldee shepherd * gaz'd , In his mid - watch observant , and dispos'd * Alluding to the first astronomical observations , made by the Chaldean shepherds . 1 The twinkling hosts as fancy gave them shape . Yet L 4 151.
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... observe , abstained from informing the reader what he is to admire and what he is not ; but I cannot refrain from saying , that the two last stanzas greatly affected me , when I discovered them written on the leaf of a different book ...
... observe , abstained from informing the reader what he is to admire and what he is not ; but I cannot refrain from saying , that the two last stanzas greatly affected me , when I discovered them written on the leaf of a different book ...
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... observations on a paper of mine , in a pre- ceding number , containing remarks on the versions and imitations of the 9th and 10th verses of the xviiith psalm , to which I think it necessary to offer a few words by way of reply ; as they ...
... observations on a paper of mine , in a pre- ceding number , containing remarks on the versions and imitations of the 9th and 10th verses of the xviiith psalm , to which I think it necessary to offer a few words by way of reply ; as they ...
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... observe , that the true sublime does not consist in high sounding words , or pompous magni- ficence ; on the contrary , it most frequently appears clad in native dignity and simplicity , without art , and without ornament . The most ...
... observe , that the true sublime does not consist in high sounding words , or pompous magni- ficence ; on the contrary , it most frequently appears clad in native dignity and simplicity , without art , and without ornament . The most ...
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... observed , that Pope , and his imitators , have introduced a species of refine- ment into our language , which has banished that nerve and pathos , for which Milton had rendered it eminent . Harmonious modulations , and unvarying ...
... observed , that Pope , and his imitators , have introduced a species of refine- ment into our language , which has banished that nerve and pathos , for which Milton had rendered it eminent . Harmonious modulations , and unvarying ...
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Page 106 - Go, lovely rose ! Tell her, that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.
Page 173 - He bowed the heavens also, and came down : and darkness was under His feet. And He rode upon a cherub, and did fly : yea, He did fly upon the wings of the wind.
Page 187 - Tis she ! — but why that bleeding bosom gor'd ' Why dimly gleams the visionary sword ? Oh ever beauteous, ever friendly ! tell, Is it in heaven a crime to love too well ? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a Lover's or a Roman's part ? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those...
Page 175 - Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant...
Page 176 - Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters, and maketh the clouds his chariot, and walketh upon the wings of the wind.
Page 175 - Parts it may ravage, but preserves the whole. On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but Passion is the gale ; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.
Page 174 - THE Lord descended from above, And bowed the heavens most high ; And underneath his feet he cast The darkness of the sky. 2 On cherub and on cherubim, Full royally he rode ; And on the wings of mighty winds Came flying all abroad.
Page 103 - It was my guide, my light, my all, It bade my dark forebodings cease; And through the storm and danger's thrall, It led me to the port of peace. Now safely moored, my perils o'er, I'll sing, first in night's diadem, For ever and for evermore, The Star, the Star of Bethlehem.
Page 182 - But various Iris, Jove's commands to bear, Speeds on the wings of winds through liquid air : In Priam's porch the Trojan chiefs she found, The old consulting, and the youths around.
Page 131 - Tis passing strange, to mark his fallacies ; Behold him proudly view some pompous pile, Whose high dome swells to emulate the skies, And smile, and say, my name shall live with this Till Time shall be no more...