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... quoted , " Oft o'er the trembling nations . " Thought he could find better in the Religio Laici2 — and the Traveller , from which he quoted- " And wondering man could want a larger pile , " & c . --preferred that poem to the Deserted ...
... quoted , " Oft o'er the trembling nations . " Thought he could find better in the Religio Laici2 — and the Traveller , from which he quoted- " And wondering man could want a larger pile , " & c . --preferred that poem to the Deserted ...
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... Quoted largely from the Hind and Panther , * and particularly with great emphasis Dryden's Happy the man , and happy he alone , " which he preferred to the original of Horace . Was fonder of Dryden than Pope . Thought Pope's Eloisa to ...
... Quoted largely from the Hind and Panther , * and particularly with great emphasis Dryden's Happy the man , and happy he alone , " which he preferred to the original of Horace . Was fonder of Dryden than Pope . Thought Pope's Eloisa to ...
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... quoting gave great variety to his style . Homer - Iliad and Odyssey - Knight was coming to read his arguments why they were written by different people - Was inclined to say he would not believe it . Would not say he would rather have ...
... quoting gave great variety to his style . Homer - Iliad and Odyssey - Knight was coming to read his arguments why they were written by different people - Was inclined to say he would not believe it . Would not say he would rather have ...
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... Quoted Horace- " An vigilare metu exanimem , noctesque diesque . " ? Ghosts No man , however theoretically an unbeliever , but practically a believer more or less . Knew Gibbon well.3 Believes he could repeat all Horace's Odes by to ...
... Quoted Horace- " An vigilare metu exanimem , noctesque diesque . " ? Ghosts No man , however theoretically an unbeliever , but practically a believer more or less . Knew Gibbon well.3 Believes he could repeat all Horace's Odes by to ...
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... quoted many lines . - Hamilton's Bawn.1 Some verses of mine made when a boy , said by Tickell to be borrowed from his Grandfather , whom I had never read . Borrowed by both of us from Dryden's Palamon and Arcite . ? Warburton's Divine ...
... quoted many lines . - Hamilton's Bawn.1 Some verses of mine made when a boy , said by Tickell to be borrowed from his Grandfather , whom I had never read . Borrowed by both of us from Dryden's Palamon and Arcite . ? Warburton's Divine ...
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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.