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Side 49
... " - [ Gray . 1768. ] 4 Milton .- [ Gray . 1768. ] 3 Shakespeare .- [ Gray . ] 5 The succession of Poets after Milton's time .- [ Gray . 1768. ] VOL . I. E Fond impious Man , think'st thou , yon sanguine cloud THE BARD . 49.
... " - [ Gray . 1768. ] 4 Milton .- [ Gray . 1768. ] 3 Shakespeare .- [ Gray . ] 5 The succession of Poets after Milton's time .- [ Gray . 1768. ] VOL . I. E Fond impious Man , think'st thou , yon sanguine cloud THE BARD . 49.
Side 133
... poets small , Pert barristers , and parsons nothing bright , But what awaits me now is worst of all . ' Tis true , our master's temper natural Was fashion'd fair in meek and dove - like guise ; But may not honey's self be turn'd to gall ...
... poets small , Pert barristers , and parsons nothing bright , But what awaits me now is worst of all . ' Tis true , our master's temper natural Was fashion'd fair in meek and dove - like guise ; But may not honey's self be turn'd to gall ...
Side 306
... poets ' heads . Both are done from Occleve's painting ; but he never tells us where he found the painting , as he generally uses to do . D'Urry says there is a portrait of Chaucer ( doubtless a whole length ) , for he describes his port ...
... poets ' heads . Both are done from Occleve's painting ; but he never tells us where he found the painting , as he generally uses to do . D'Urry says there is a portrait of Chaucer ( doubtless a whole length ) , for he describes his port ...
Side 326
... poets inserted , where it suited them , in verse . The same did they by the final syllable of verbs , as brennin , correctin , dronkin , & c . 1 And see Somner's Saxon Dictionary in Le . Chaucer seems to have been well aware of the ...
... poets inserted , where it suited them , in verse . The same did they by the final syllable of verbs , as brennin , correctin , dronkin , & c . 1 And see Somner's Saxon Dictionary in Le . Chaucer seems to have been well aware of the ...
Side 331
... poets of Henry the Eighth's time mixed it with the line of fourteen syllables alternately , which is so tiresome , that we have long since quite banished it . Thus many things of Wyatt's and Lord Surrey's are written , and those of ...
... poets of Henry the Eighth's time mixed it with the line of fourteen syllables alternately , which is so tiresome , that we have long since quite banished it . Thus many things of Wyatt's and Lord Surrey's are written , and those of ...
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Side 221 - Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Side 220 - Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor.
Side 17 - Windsor's heights th' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey, Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way...
Side 75 - Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of death?
Side 18 - Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace...
Side 76 - Hampden that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton, here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Side 125 - See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
Side 79 - Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Side 232 - He gain'd from heav'n ('twas all he wish'd) a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God.
Side 11 - The fair round face, the snowy beard, The velvet of her paws, Her coat, that with the tortoise vies, Her ears of jet, and emerald eyes, She saw; and purr'd applause.