Letters to a Young Lady on a Course of English PoetryHopkins and Seymour, 1806 - 297 sider |
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Side 14
... touching picture of con- nubial love in the second of them deserves great praise as a moral painting . With respect to the peculiar structure of the stan- zas , and the application of the antique terms of chorus and semi - chorus ...
... touching picture of con- nubial love in the second of them deserves great praise as a moral painting . With respect to the peculiar structure of the stan- zas , and the application of the antique terms of chorus and semi - chorus ...
Side 41
... touching moral is deduced with great elegance from a cir- cumstance well adapted to poetical descrip- tion . The " Lady's Looking - glass " may rank with this in subject , though not writ- ten in stanzas . " The female Phaeton " is a ...
... touching moral is deduced with great elegance from a cir- cumstance well adapted to poetical descrip- tion . The " Lady's Looking - glass " may rank with this in subject , though not writ- ten in stanzas . " The female Phaeton " is a ...
Side 58
... touching , because more natural , than most of the lamentable tales of our modern sentimentalists . This sin- gular combination distinguishes several of Gay's productions , especially his dramas . I shall not recommend to you his ...
... touching , because more natural , than most of the lamentable tales of our modern sentimentalists . This sin- gular combination distinguishes several of Gay's productions , especially his dramas . I shall not recommend to you his ...
Side 69
... touching in the description of Stella's ministering in the sick chamber , where -with a soft and silent tread Unheard she moves about the bed . In all these pieces there is an originality which proves how much the author's ge- nius was ...
... touching in the description of Stella's ministering in the sick chamber , where -with a soft and silent tread Unheard she moves about the bed . In all these pieces there is an originality which proves how much the author's ge- nius was ...
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... touched with a real passion . But there is something in the simplicity of pastoral life so sweetly accordant with the tender affections , that the incongruity of times and manners is easily pardoned , and genuine feelings are excited ...
... touched with a real passion . But there is something in the simplicity of pastoral life so sweetly accordant with the tender affections , that the incongruity of times and manners is easily pardoned , and genuine feelings are excited ...
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Side 255 - Yet, when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign'd...
Side 44 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), Calm and serene he drives the furious blast; And pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Side 95 - She, who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humour most, when she obeys...
Side 249 - The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school ; The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind ; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made.
Side 261 - And oft the craggy cliff he loved to climb, When all in mist the world below was lost. What dreadful pleasure ! there to stand sublime, Like shipwreck'd mariner on desert coast, And view th...
Side 252 - When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray ; What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.
Side 190 - When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue, Her bow across her shoulder flung, Her buskins gemm'd with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call to Faun and Dryad known ! The oak-crown'd Sisters and their chaste-eyed Queen, Satyrs and Sylvan Boys, were seen Peeping from forth their alleys green: Brown Exercise rejoiced to hear; And Sport leapt up, and seized his beechen spear.
Side 140 - To quell the mighty of the earth, the oppressor, The brute and boisterous force of violent men, Hardy and industrious to support Tyrannic power, but raging to pursue The righteous, and all such as honour truth...
Side 26 - Whilst listening to the murmuring leaves he stood, More than a mile immersed within the wood, At once the wind was laid; the whispering sound Was dumb: a rising earthquake rock'd the ground! With deeper brown the grove was overspread: A sudden horror seized his giddy head, And his ears tinkled, and his colour fled. Nature was in alarm; some danger nigh Seem'd threaten'd, though unseen to mortal eye.
Side 106 - Where nought but dreams, no real pleasures, grow ; Like cats in air-pumps, to subsist we strive On joys too thin to keep the soul alive.