The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, 2. köideHarper & brothers, 1851 |
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... poets of this period that most of them enjoyed a con- siderable degree of worldly prosperity and importance , such as has rarely blessed the community of authors . Some filled high diplomatic and other official stations , and others ...
... poets of this period that most of them enjoyed a con- siderable degree of worldly prosperity and importance , such as has rarely blessed the community of authors . Some filled high diplomatic and other official stations , and others ...
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... poet the compliment to say , in allusion to his own translations , my latter swarm is hardly worth the hiving . The address to Dryden opens with the following lines : - How long , great poet ! shall thy sacred lays Provoke our wonder ...
... poet the compliment to say , in allusion to his own translations , my latter swarm is hardly worth the hiving . The address to Dryden opens with the following lines : - How long , great poet ! shall thy sacred lays Provoke our wonder ...
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... poet . While he was travelling in the latter country , apparently at leisure , he was far from being idle ; for he ... Poetic fields encompass me around , And still I seem to tread on classic ground ; 1 For here the muse so oft her harp ...
... poet . While he was travelling in the latter country , apparently at leisure , he was far from being idle ; for he ... Poetic fields encompass me around , And still I seem to tread on classic ground ; 1 For here the muse so oft her harp ...
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... poet entirely fails to unlock the sources of human passion . It is a splendid and imposing work of art , with the grace , the majesty , and the coldness also , of a noble antique statue . The following soliloquy , in the first scene of ...
... poet entirely fails to unlock the sources of human passion . It is a splendid and imposing work of art , with the grace , the majesty , and the coldness also , of a noble antique statue . The following soliloquy , in the first scene of ...
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... poet , but in what way is unknown ; and he , therefore , from his death - bed , sent for him , that he might obtain his forgiveness , and assure him , should his life be spared , that he would make every reparation in his power . He ...
... poet , but in what way is unknown ; and he , therefore , from his death - bed , sent for him , that he might obtain his forgiveness , and assure him , should his life be spared , that he would make every reparation in his power . He ...
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Page 340 - With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.
Page 24 - I'm weary of conjectures — This must end them. (Laying his hand upon his sword. Thus am I doubly armed : my death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me : This in a moment brings me to an end, But this informs me I shall never die.
Page 339 - Await alike the inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Page 381 - Whose beard descending swept his aged breast; The ruined spendthrift, now no longer proud, Claimed kindred there, and had his claims allowed; The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay, Sat by his fire, and talked the night away, Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch and showed how fields were won.
Page 382 - At church with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
Page 339 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learned to stray: Along the cool, sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
Page 380 - Thus every good his native wilds impart Imprints the patriot passion on his heart ; And even those ills that round his mansion rise Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms ; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar But bind him to his native mountains more.
Page 236 - I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation!
Page 339 - How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! 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. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th
Page 380 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene...