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... influence of the stream I love . -Gifford , WILLIAM , 1791 , The Baviad . The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste ; one to whom labour is negligence , refinement a science , and art ...
... influence of the stream I love . -Gifford , WILLIAM , 1791 , The Baviad . The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste ; one to whom labour is negligence , refinement a science , and art ...
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... influence , like an inconstant wind , awakens to transitory brightness ; this power arises from within , like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed , and the conscious portions of our nature are unprophetic ...
... influence , like an inconstant wind , awakens to transitory brightness ; this power arises from within , like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed , and the conscious portions of our nature are unprophetic ...
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... influence of which may continually be traced ; and under the inspiration of this model Glover expands a few simple chapters of his au- thority Herodotus into the dimensions of an epic by inventing various characters , love - affairs ...
... influence of which may continually be traced ; and under the inspiration of this model Glover expands a few simple chapters of his au- thority Herodotus into the dimensions of an epic by inventing various characters , love - affairs ...
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... influence of the service of song upon the Methodist movement it is almost impossible to exaggerate . Charles Wesley , it is said , wrote more than six thousand hymns ; and though in this vast flux of words he sometimes - nay , often ...
... influence of the service of song upon the Methodist movement it is almost impossible to exaggerate . Charles Wesley , it is said , wrote more than six thousand hymns ; and though in this vast flux of words he sometimes - nay , often ...
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... influence of his careful classical training , though this is less manifest than we might have expected . Neither Wesley nor Watts has left any one great poem . Wesley will , perhaps , be judged to have best maintained his claim to the ...
... influence of his careful classical training , though this is less manifest than we might have expected . Neither Wesley nor Watts has left any one great poem . Wesley will , perhaps , be judged to have best maintained his claim to the ...
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Page 197 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Page 9 - Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, "I will compose poetry." The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness...
Page 182 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berccau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Page 82 - The Body Of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, (Like the cover of an old book, Its contents torn out, And stript of its lettering and gilding,) Lies here, food for worms. But the work shall not be lost, For it will, as he believed, appear once more, In a new and more elegant edition, Revised and corrected By THE AUTHOR.
Page 290 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much ; Who, born for the Universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Page 8 - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense...
Page 465 - He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprang upon its feet...
Page 9 - We are aware of evanescent visitations of thought and feeling, sometimes associated with place or person, sometimes regarding our own mind alone, and always arising unforeseen and departing unbidden, but elevating and delightful beyond all expression...
Page 375 - And now, what time ye all may read through dimming tears his story, How discord on the music fell, and darkness on the glory, And how when, one by one, sweet sounds and wandering lights departed, He wore no less a loving face because so broken-hearted...
Page 194 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.