English poetsHenry Francis Cary H. G. Bohn, 1846 |
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... Poetical Dictionary of the English Tongue . Considerations upon the Present State of London . Collection of Epigrams , with notes and observations . Observations on the English Language , relating to words , phrases , and modes of ...
... Poetical Dictionary of the English Tongue . Considerations upon the Present State of London . Collection of Epigrams , with notes and observations . Observations on the English Language , relating to words , phrases , and modes of ...
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... poetical diction , no system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic use , and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts , and " that words too familiar or too remote , defeat the purpose of a poet ...
... poetical diction , no system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic use , and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts , and " that words too familiar or too remote , defeat the purpose of a poet ...
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... poetical language , is the use of metaphors ; and metaphors never find their way to the mind more readily , or affect it more powerfully , than when they are clothed in familiar words . Even a naked sentiment will lose none of its force ...
... poetical language , is the use of metaphors ; and metaphors never find their way to the mind more readily , or affect it more powerfully , than when they are clothed in familiar words . Even a naked sentiment will lose none of its force ...
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... poetical talent , he was induced to pass two of his winters in the capital ; but finding that the air of the town was injurious to his health , in 1751 he purchased a residence at Twickenham . He had now another opportunity of showing ...
... poetical talent , he was induced to pass two of his winters in the capital ; but finding that the air of the town was injurious to his health , in 1751 he purchased a residence at Twickenham . He had now another opportunity of showing ...
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... poetical talents in writing satires on the other boys , and in panegyrising his heroic countryman Wallace . From hence , at the usual age , he was removed to Glasgow ; and there making choice of the study of medicine , was apprenticed ...
... poetical talents in writing satires on the other boys , and in panegyrising his heroic countryman Wallace . From hence , at the usual age , he was removed to Glasgow ; and there making choice of the study of medicine , was apprenticed ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 217 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms unfashion'd, fresh from nature's hand, Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagined right, above control, While e'en the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man.
Página 44 - The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean. On those shores were the four great empires of the world ; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above savages, has come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean.
Página 203 - Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave: Thou shalt not lack The flower, that's like thy face, pale primrose; nor The azur'd hare-bell, like thy veins; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Página 217 - She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain.
Página 53 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Página 2 - He, and another neighbour of mine, one Mr. Samuel Johnson, set out this morning for London together. Davy Garrick is to be with you early the next week, and Mr. Johnson to try his fate with a tragedy, and to see to get himself employed in some translation, either from the Latin or the French.
Página 123 - not only witty in himself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Página 207 - Woods ! that listen to the night-birds' singing, Midway the smooth and perilous slope reclined, Save when your own imperious branches swinging Have made a solemn music of the wind ! Where, like a man beloved...
Página 245 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Página 207 - Yea, every thing that is and will be free! Bear witness for me, wheresoe'er ye be, With what deep worship I have still adored The spirit of divinest Liberty.