The Bardiad: A Poem ; in Two CantosLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, etc., etc., Originally published as an ode.-Pref., 1823 - 286 pages |
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... verse can do is to help the memory and delight the ear ; and for these purposes it may be very useful ; but it supplies nothing to the mind . The ideas of Christian Theo- logy are too simple for eloquence , too sacred for fiction , and ...
... verse can do is to help the memory and delight the ear ; and for these purposes it may be very useful ; but it supplies nothing to the mind . The ideas of Christian Theo- logy are too simple for eloquence , too sacred for fiction , and ...
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... verse would display itself in the praise of the Creator , and flow almost involuntarily from the enraptured mind ? This , at least , is certain , that Poetry has been nur- tured in those sacred places , where she seems to have been ...
... verse would display itself in the praise of the Creator , and flow almost involuntarily from the enraptured mind ? This , at least , is certain , that Poetry has been nur- tured in those sacred places , where she seems to have been ...
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... verse ! my fervid soul , to thee Symphonious , warm'd with thy ethereal glow , Welcomes thy inspiration ; and , with flow Of earthly sounds and humblest melody , Echoes the thought it but receives from thee . O ! heavenly Patroness ...
... verse ! my fervid soul , to thee Symphonious , warm'd with thy ethereal glow , Welcomes thy inspiration ; and , with flow Of earthly sounds and humblest melody , Echoes the thought it but receives from thee . O ! heavenly Patroness ...
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... verse , ' We now enquire not . Nor , shall we rehearse What ORPHEUS chanted on Apollo's lyre , To raise Eurydice from realms of fire ; By what strange melodies he overcame Mortals , more difficult than beasts to tame ; What LINUS Sang ...
... verse , ' We now enquire not . Nor , shall we rehearse What ORPHEUS chanted on Apollo's lyre , To raise Eurydice from realms of fire ; By what strange melodies he overcame Mortals , more difficult than beasts to tame ; What LINUS Sang ...
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... verse demand the true sublime ; Such as Mæonides o'er Græcia rang , Or , polish'd Maro to Mecænas sang ; Or , later Tasso , to a slumbering age ; Or , the dread argument of Milton's page . These mighty masters of the heavenly art , Pass ...
... verse demand the true sublime ; Such as Mæonides o'er Græcia rang , Or , polish'd Maro to Mecænas sang ; Or , later Tasso , to a slumbering age ; Or , the dread argument of Milton's page . These mighty masters of the heavenly art , Pass ...
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Page 190 - The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty Go<J of Jacob : (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel...
Page 201 - Who can count the dust of Jacob, And the number of the fourth part of Israel ? Let me die the death of the righteous, And let my last end be like his...
Page 187 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar...
Page 176 - Less than a god they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so well. What passion cannot Music raise and quell?
Page 175 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.
Page 196 - See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me : I kill, and I make alive ; I wound, and I heal : neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
Page 190 - Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion. Who shall rouse him up? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Page 100 - But hark ! a rap comes gently to the door ; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad cam' o'er the moor, To do some errands, and convoy her hame. The wily mother sees the conscious flame Sparkle in Jenny's e'e, and flush her cheek ; With heart-struck anxious care, inquires his name, While Jenny hafflins is afraid to speak : Weel pleased the mother hears it's nae wild, worthless rake. Wi...
Page 136 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Page 194 - Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy. And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: Thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble. And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, The floods stood upright as a heap, And the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.