PoemsMoxon, 1860 - 306 pages |
From inside the book
Results 6-10 of 20
Page xxxix
... admiration of Fox as a Whig statesman , and as a man of letters . He admired his speeches in favour of peace when we were at war with France , and he admired his love of Homer and Virgil . Nor did he less like his taste in English ...
... admiration of Fox as a Whig statesman , and as a man of letters . He admired his speeches in favour of peace when we were at war with France , and he admired his love of Homer and Virgil . Nor did he less like his taste in English ...
Page xlv
... admired their ge- nius , and welcomed them as friends , although they did not follow the lights which had guided him . Crabbe and Campbell alone could be called of the old school of Pope , with whom shortness and neatness of expression ...
... admired their ge- nius , and welcomed them as friends , although they did not follow the lights which had guided him . Crabbe and Campbell alone could be called of the old school of Pope , with whom shortness and neatness of expression ...
Page liv
... admiration worth having if it was to be accompanied with the thought that he had used his gift of poetry for anything but good . He thought Gibbon the greatest of our English historians ; but said that he would not , if he could ...
... admiration worth having if it was to be accompanied with the thought that he had used his gift of poetry for anything but good . He thought Gibbon the greatest of our English historians ; but said that he would not , if he could ...
Page 57
... admirable exemplifica- tion of this idea . - See the RAKE'S PROGRESS , plate 8 . Page 32 , line 11 . Turns but to start , and gazes but to sigh ! The following stanzas * are said to have been written on a blank leaf of this Poem . They ...
... admirable exemplifica- tion of this idea . - See the RAKE'S PROGRESS , plate 8 . Page 32 , line 11 . Turns but to start , and gazes but to sigh ! The following stanzas * are said to have been written on a blank leaf of this Poem . They ...
Page 63
... admirable examples of what in Painting is termed repose . We have admittance to Horace at all hours . We enjoy the company and conversation at his table ; and his suppers , like Plato's , " non solum in præ- sentia , sed etiam postero ...
... admirable examples of what in Painting is termed repose . We have admittance to Horace at all hours . We enjoy the company and conversation at his table ; and his suppers , like Plato's , " non solum in præ- sentia , sed etiam postero ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
admiration ancient beautiful bids blessed blest breathe bright called CANTO CHARLES JAMES Fox charm Cicero Columbus dark death delight dream Euripides eyes father fear feelings Finden fled flowers fond gaze Gilbert Wakefield glows Goodall grey grove hail hand hear heart Heaven Hence Herodotus Hist hope hour Household Deities hung Icarius Italy light line 15 lived look Lord mind musing Newington Green night o'er once Petrarch Pleasures of Memory poems Poet resigned Richard Sharp rise Rogers round sacred sail Samuel Rogers sate says scene secret shade shed shine sigh silent sleep smile song soon sorrow soul spirit stood Stothard Stourbridge sung sweet swell taste tears thee thine Thomas Rogers thou thought thro trace trembling triumph Turner Twas verse virtue voice wake wandering wave weep wild wings wish Worcestershire young youth