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... French verse very bad ; as every syllable , except where there is a feminine termination , should be pronounced equally , which cannot be in the French verse ; and therefore it continually tortures the ear . 3 See Lycidas , line 70 , et ...
... French verse very bad ; as every syllable , except where there is a feminine termination , should be pronounced equally , which cannot be in the French verse ; and therefore it continually tortures the ear . 3 See Lycidas , line 70 , et ...
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... French had a right to these spoils of a conquered Country . Looked out of the Gallery Window , and thought the sun was burning up his turnips . Oct. 20th . Mara's concert and the ballet of Psyché at the Opera house . Sat between Mr. and ...
... French had a right to these spoils of a conquered Country . Looked out of the Gallery Window , and thought the sun was burning up his turnips . Oct. 20th . Mara's concert and the ballet of Psyché at the Opera house . Sat between Mr. and ...
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... letters by the title " Dear Dick . " For many years in Parliament . His sister , Lady Mary Fitzpatrick , married Mr. Fox's elder brother Stephen , Lord Holland . bad French- " Mon toux " instead of " Ma. 22 CHARLES JAMES FOX .
... letters by the title " Dear Dick . " For many years in Parliament . His sister , Lady Mary Fitzpatrick , married Mr. Fox's elder brother Stephen , Lord Holland . bad French- " Mon toux " instead of " Ma. 22 CHARLES JAMES FOX .
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Samuel Rogers William Sharpe. bad French- " Mon toux " instead of " Ma toux . " The English articulate very ill . Gibbon , if anybody , mastered two languages . Milton not English - could never forgive him for expecting to interest him ...
Samuel Rogers William Sharpe. bad French- " Mon toux " instead of " Ma toux . " The English articulate very ill . Gibbon , if anybody , mastered two languages . Milton not English - could never forgive him for expecting to interest him ...
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... French had the ad- vantage of us . He said , indeed , in almost every respect . Observed of Gibbon's History that if a man was to say , " I can't read it , " and was to attempt to acquire the knowledge it contained by any other means ...
... French had the ad- vantage of us . He said , indeed , in almost every respect . Observed of Gibbon's History that if a man was to say , " I can't read it , " and was to attempt to acquire the knowledge it contained by any other means ...
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Page 11 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals ? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers...
Page 10 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page xiii - Oh thou ! with whom my heart was wont to share From Reason's dawn each pleasure and each care; With whom, alas! I fondly hoped to know The humble walks of happiness below; If thy blest nature now unites above An angel's pity with a brother's love, Still o'er my life preserve thy mild...
Page 48 - To cheer the shivering native's dull abode. And oft, beneath the odorous shade Of Chili's boundless forests laid, She deigns to hear the savage youth repeat, In loose numbers wildly sweet, Their feather-cinctured chiefs, and dusky loves. Her track, where'er the goddess roves, Glory pursue, and generous Shame, The unconquerable Mind, and freedom's holy flame.
Page 183 - O eloquent, just and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet!
Page 15 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. "But not the praise...
Page 38 - From his broad bosom life and verdure flings. And broods o'er Egypt with his wat'ry wings, If with advent'rous oar and ready sail, The dusky people drive before the gale; Or on frail floats to neighb'ring cities ride, That rise and glitter o'er the ambient tide...
Page 19 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose ; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
Page xvi - Nature denied him much, But gave him at his birth what most he values; A passionate love for music, sculpture, painting, For poetry, the language of the gods, For all things here, or grand or beautiful, A setting sun, a lake among the mountains, The light of an ingenuous countenance, And what transcends them all, a noble action.
Page 57 - The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon: Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun.