The Bardiad: A Poem ; in Two CantosLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, etc., etc., Originally published as an ode.-Pref., 1823 - 286 sider |
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Side iii
... Poets of eminence , in it's different departments , both ancient and modern , foreign and vernacular , are introduced , in the class to which they appear properly to belong . Brief allu- sions are frequently made to leading biographical ...
... Poets of eminence , in it's different departments , both ancient and modern , foreign and vernacular , are introduced , in the class to which they appear properly to belong . Brief allu- sions are frequently made to leading biographical ...
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... Poets , will necessarily induce a warmth of partiality , which more general perusals would at once moderate and cool . He who has read " Thomson's Seasons , " often speaks with as invincible dogmatism and su- percilious animadversion as ...
... Poets , will necessarily induce a warmth of partiality , which more general perusals would at once moderate and cool . He who has read " Thomson's Seasons , " often speaks with as invincible dogmatism and su- percilious animadversion as ...
Side viii
... inadmissible . That " metrical devotion has rarely a tendency to enlarge the comprehension and elevate the fancy , " * Johnson's Life of Waller . " Lives of the Poets . " or , as he , afterwards , much more roundly viii . PREFACE .
... inadmissible . That " metrical devotion has rarely a tendency to enlarge the comprehension and elevate the fancy , " * Johnson's Life of Waller . " Lives of the Poets . " or , as he , afterwards , much more roundly viii . PREFACE .
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... Poets whose works are criticised ; but , the selection is only such as may tend to illustrate the observa- tions that are made in the course of the Poem . Of any other , indeed , there would be no end . Gorton , 1st . March , 1823 . THE ...
... Poets whose works are criticised ; but , the selection is only such as may tend to illustrate the observa- tions that are made in the course of the Poem . Of any other , indeed , there would be no end . Gorton , 1st . March , 1823 . THE ...
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... Poets till their brains were crackt ; Nor such a lunacy , no power can tame , As cast Empedocles in Ætna's flame . What then is Poetry ? —a work of mind , With passion warm and fancy bright , combined ; The " secret soul of harmony ...
... Poets till their brains were crackt ; Nor such a lunacy , no power can tame , As cast Empedocles in Ætna's flame . What then is Poetry ? —a work of mind , With passion warm and fancy bright , combined ; The " secret soul of harmony ...
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Amorites awful Bard beam beauty blast blessings Book of Job breast breath bright bursting Castle of Indolence CHARLOTTE SMITH charm Chaucer clouds critical dark death deep divine dread earth enchanting epic poetry Ettrick fairy fancy Fingal fire flower gales genius glow grief hand harmony harp hath heart heaven Hebrew Henriade Heshbon hill Hope king Knight's Tale language light lone Lord lyre melody mind Minstrel Moab moon mountain Muse nature never night numbers o'er Ossian pale Palemon passion Poem poetical Poetry Poets praise pride rapture reader rise rock round sacred scene seraphic Sihon sing smile soft song sorrow soul sound Spenser spirit stars storm strain sublime sweet taste tear tell thee thine thou shalt thought trembling unto verse voice wandering wave wild wind wings wretch
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Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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?
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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.