Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807, Zväzok 2A. Constable, 1811 - 432 strán (strany) |
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... admired prose writer in his day , but within the last fifty years nothing has made greater progress to perfection than style . Shaftesbury has one most inelegant mode of expression , viz . " this is pleasant enough , in the way of ...
... admired prose writer in his day , but within the last fifty years nothing has made greater progress to perfection than style . Shaftesbury has one most inelegant mode of expression , viz . " this is pleasant enough , in the way of ...
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... admired Johnson's talents , and revered his knowledge , and formidable as I felt the powers to be of his witty sophistry , yet did a certain quickness of spirit , and zeal for the reputation of my favourite authors , irresistibly urge ...
... admired Johnson's talents , and revered his knowledge , and formidable as I felt the powers to be of his witty sophistry , yet did a certain quickness of spirit , and zeal for the reputation of my favourite authors , irresistibly urge ...
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... admired . TO MISS SEWard . * While friendship hails the rosy plume , That wafts bright joy thro ' + Wroxal's shade , Say shall not gratitude illume The breast that erst , its hopes to aid , The muse of Lichfield cheer'd with genial ray ...
... admired . TO MISS SEWard . * While friendship hails the rosy plume , That wafts bright joy thro ' + Wroxal's shade , Say shall not gratitude illume The breast that erst , its hopes to aid , The muse of Lichfield cheer'd with genial ray ...
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... admire Mr Merry's poem to Mrs Siddons very much ; we forgive imitation , however obvious , when the result is good . Here the imagery , in some parts , approaches that of its archetype , Collins's Ode on the Passions , in the portraits ...
... admire Mr Merry's poem to Mrs Siddons very much ; we forgive imitation , however obvious , when the result is good . Here the imagery , in some parts , approaches that of its archetype , Collins's Ode on the Passions , in the portraits ...
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... admiring esteem in which I held his muse . I wish he may not feel a little scholastic scorn over the presumption of such praise . And now , ere I say adieu , I must fight you a little more upon the old ground . I feel a zeal , something ...
... admiring esteem in which I held his muse . I wish he may not feel a little scholastic scorn over the presumption of such praise . And now , ere I say adieu , I must fight you a little more upon the old ground . I feel a zeal , something ...
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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 |
Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807, Zväzok 2 Anna Seward Úplné zobrazenie - 1811 |
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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