Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807, Zväzok 2A. Constable, 1811 - 432 strán (strany) |
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... wish , as you express it , to make me better known in Scotland ;but if an author's works do not introduce him , or her , it is in vain that the partialities of private friendship seek to give eclat . I shall , however , gratefully ...
... wish , as you express it , to make me better known in Scotland ;but if an author's works do not introduce him , or her , it is in vain that the partialities of private friendship seek to give eclat . I shall , however , gratefully ...
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... wish the second line softened ; but the harshness was purposed , as expressing fatigue by the dragging sound . I have made the slight change you suggested in the first line of the 30th ; but in the following : - " Ha ! does he pass the ...
... wish the second line softened ; but the harshness was purposed , as expressing fatigue by the dragging sound . I have made the slight change you suggested in the first line of the 30th ; but in the following : - " Ha ! does he pass the ...
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... wish for you the society of a friend :yet the solitude of minds enabled to gild it by their own resources , is to me no object of pity . Do you not think me strangely unfeeling , that I commiserate , as yet , none of the evils of which ...
... wish for you the society of a friend :yet the solitude of minds enabled to gild it by their own resources , is to me no object of pity . Do you not think me strangely unfeeling , that I commiserate , as yet , none of the evils of which ...
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... wish you do not say a great deal too much for that im- perial city . . For her greatness perhaps you can- not , but for her justice I think you do . How does Johnson esteem her ? let us hear him : London , the needy villain's general ...
... wish you do not say a great deal too much for that im- perial city . . For her greatness perhaps you can- not , but for her justice I think you do . How does Johnson esteem her ? let us hear him : London , the needy villain's general ...
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... wishes , and of just indignation . Let me , however , do myself the justice to observe , that my heart always recoiled with horror from the miseries which I heard were inflicted on the negro slaves ; but I have had long acquaintance ...
... wishes , and of just indignation . Let me , however , do myself the justice to observe , that my heart always recoiled with horror from the miseries which I heard were inflicted on the negro slaves ; but I have had long acquaintance ...
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Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807, Zväzok 2 Anna Seward Úplné zobrazenie - 1811 |
Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807, Zväzok 2 Anna Seward Úplné zobrazenie - 1811 |
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Adieu admire amidst ANNA SEWARD appears beautiful blank verse Cary charming compositions confess contempt critics delight Derbyshire disgrace Dr Johnson Dryden dulating Eartham elegance eloquence Epic Poetry epistle excellence express Eyam fame fancy father favour feel genius Gentleman's Magazine GEORGE HARDINGE give glow grace gratified Gray happiness Hayley Hayley's heart honour hope ideas imagery imagination ingenious interest Johnson Knowles Lady language late leisure less LETTER Lichfield lines literary living Lucy Porter Lycidas lyric Mason ment Milton mind Miss Monody muse never numbers opinion passages Petrarch Pindar Piozzi pleasure poem poetic poetry poets Pope praise present prose recollect regret rhyme seems Shakespeare shew sister Smith's Solihul sonnet Sophia spirit style sublime superior sure sweet talents taste thing tion vulgarisms Weston Whalley WILLIAM HAYLEY wish wonder word writings youth
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Strana 263 - These gifts to man the laws' of God ordain, These gifts he grants who grants the pow'r to gain; With these celestial wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not
Strana 299 - virtuous son, Now that the fields are dank, and ways are mire, Where shall we sometimes meet, and by the fire Help waste a sullen day what may be won Prom the hard season
Strana 299 - nor spun. What neat repast shall feast us, light, and choice, Of Attic taste, with wine, whence we may rise To hear the lute well touch'd, or artful voice Warble immortal notes, and Tuscan air? He, who of these delights can judge, and spare To interpose them oft, is not unwise. With what tender pensive grace is that picture of the gloomy season, in the opening, brought to the
Strana 13 - The dead man's knell Is there scarce ask'd for whom; and good men's lives - Expire before the flowers in their caps, Dying, or crc they
Strana 267 - aggregate, are as freely used in ethic, metaphysic, or didactic pbetry', as in prose; “Remembrance and reflection, how allied! What thin partitions sense from thought divide !“ If in the sentence, quoted in my last from
Strana 355 - more' plenteous leisure, that has fifteen volumes of the glorious Richardson upon their shelves? -. — “Who but rather turns To heaven's bright orb his unrestrained view, Than to the glimmering of a waxen flame! Who, that from Alpine heights his labouring eye,
Strana 11 - to taste? Forbid who will, none shall from me with-hold Longer, thy offer'd good.” “Whether it be envy or reserve that forbids others to taste of thee,” is the implied meaning; and, to people used to poetry, surely sufficiently implied; while the ellipsis, by curtailing the words, gives rapid force to the meaning. Again, in the same poem, Book Tenth, line 245, —“ Whatever draws me, Or sympathy,
Strana 382 - human heart, that Shakespeare of prose, Richardson, express himself upon this subject: “You are, all of you, too rich to be happy, child; for must not ‘each of' you, by the constitutions of your family, be put upon making yourselves still richer; and so every
Strana 27 - hero. To me alone One of old Gideon's miracles was shown; For upon all the quicken'd ground ‘The fruitful seed of Heaven did brooding lie, And nothing but the muses fleece was dry.” Then the public hireling critics are not
Strana 124 - the ocean's bed, But yet, anon, repairs his drooping head; And tricks his beams, and with