Poems ..., Volum 1W. Collins, 1834 - 564 sider |
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Side xvii
... poet , if ever man was born one , and early displayed his talent , yet , like a nestling - bird , fledged at the end of summer , scarcely had he learned to sing and fly , before his wing was moulted , and his voice lost ; nor , till ...
... poet , if ever man was born one , and early displayed his talent , yet , like a nestling - bird , fledged at the end of summer , scarcely had he learned to sing and fly , before his wing was moulted , and his voice lost ; nor , till ...
Side xviii
... poets - one of the few who appear but at particular eras , and are destined to make such eras -should have waited till he was past middle life , before he discovered the hidden treasures of his mind , or , at least , before he began to ...
... poets - one of the few who appear but at particular eras , and are destined to make such eras -should have waited till he was past middle life , before he discovered the hidden treasures of his mind , or , at least , before he began to ...
Side xix
... poet of the highest order could have presented such a groupe as the fol- lowing , without bombast or burlesque : - 66 ' Lord , we tremble , for we know How the fierce malicious foe , Wheeling round his watchful flight , Keeps them ever ...
... poet of the highest order could have presented such a groupe as the fol- lowing , without bombast or burlesque : - 66 ' Lord , we tremble , for we know How the fierce malicious foe , Wheeling round his watchful flight , Keeps them ever ...
Side xxiii
... poet , and charmed him too , with the voice of praise , to which none can be entirely deaf , in whom " the last infirmity of noble minds " is not extinct — it is difficult to suppose , that his faculties would have sur- vived the shock ...
... poet , and charmed him too , with the voice of praise , to which none can be entirely deaf , in whom " the last infirmity of noble minds " is not extinct — it is difficult to suppose , that his faculties would have sur- vived the shock ...
Side xxiv
... poets , in every form of English that his ingenuity could devise , occupied , for many years , that very portion of his time which , with a person of no profession , and having no stated duties to perform , lies heaviest upon the spirit ...
... poets , in every form of English that his ingenuity could devise , occupied , for many years , that very portion of his time which , with a person of no profession , and having no stated duties to perform , lies heaviest upon the spirit ...
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