The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen 54Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... kind of folemn and uniform appearance . It is probable that elegies were written at firft upon the death of intimate friends and near relations ; celebrated beauties , or favourite mistresses ; beneficent governors and illuftrious men ...
... kind of folemn and uniform appearance . It is probable that elegies were written at firft upon the death of intimate friends and near relations ; celebrated beauties , or favourite mistresses ; beneficent governors and illuftrious men ...
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... kind of subjects , treated in such a manner as to diffuse a pleafing melancholy , might far better deferve the name , than the facetious mirth and libertine feftivity of the fuccefsful votaries of love . But not to dwell too long upon ...
... kind of subjects , treated in such a manner as to diffuse a pleafing melancholy , might far better deferve the name , than the facetious mirth and libertine feftivity of the fuccefsful votaries of love . But not to dwell too long upon ...
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... kind of poetry therefore which throws its chief influence into the other fcale , that magnifies the sweets of liberty and independence , that endears the honest delights of love and friendship , that celebrates the glory of a good name ...
... kind of poetry therefore which throws its chief influence into the other fcale , that magnifies the sweets of liberty and independence , that endears the honest delights of love and friendship , that celebrates the glory of a good name ...
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... kind of argu- ment , I am apt to think , must prove too much ; fince the writers I have in view feem capable enough of recommending any metre they fhall chufe ; though it must be owned alfo , that the choice they make of any , is at the ...
... kind of argu- ment , I am apt to think , must prove too much ; fince the writers I have in view feem capable enough of recommending any metre they fhall chufe ; though it must be owned alfo , that the choice they make of any , is at the ...
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... kind of verfification . But then the peculiar cafe and variety it admits of , are no doubt fufficient to overbalance the objection , and to give it the preference to any other , in an elegy of length . The chief exception to which ...
... kind of verfification . But then the peculiar cafe and variety it admits of , are no doubt fufficient to overbalance the objection , and to give it the preference to any other , in an elegy of length . The chief exception to which ...
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Página 219 - Twas her own country bred the flock so fair; 'Twas her own labour did the fleece prepare...
Página 122 - Alas ! from the day that we met What hope of an end to my woes ? When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repose. Yet time may diminish the pain : The flower, and the shrub, and the tree, Which I rear'd for her pleasure in vain, In time may have comfort for me.
Página 121 - Not a pine in my grove is there seen, But with tendrils of woodbine is bound; Not a beech's more beautiful green. But a sweet-briar entwines it around. Not my fields in the prime of the year, More charms than my cattle unfold; Not a brook that is limpid and clear, But it glitters with fishes of gold.
Página 223 - But ah ! what pen his piteous plight may trace ? Or what device his loud laments explain? The form uncouth of his disguised face ? The pallid hue that dyes his looks amain ? The plenteous shower that does his cheek distain...
Página 121 - I fed on the smiles of my dear ? They tell me, my favourite maid, The pride of that valley, is flown ; Alas ! where with her I have stray'd, I could wander with pleasure, alone.
Página 121 - I priz'd every hour that went by, Beyond all that had pleas'd me before; But now they are past, and I sigh ; And I grieve that I priz'd them no more.
Página 62 - Th'. habitual fcene of hill and dale, The rural herds, the vernal gale, The tangled vetch's purple bloom, The fragrance of the bean's perfume, Be theirs alone who cultivate the foil, And drink the cup of thirft, and eat the bread of toil But foon the pageant fades away ! 'Tis nature only bears perpetual fway.
Página 88 - Each wayward paffion foon would tear His bofom, now fo void of care ; And, when they left his ebbing vein, What, but...
Página 228 - And must be bought, though penury betide. The plumb all azure and the nut all brown, And here each season do those cakes abide, Whose honour'd names th* inventive city own, Rendering through Britain's isle Salopia's praises known.
Página 90 - The river gliding down the dale ! The hill with beeches crown'd ! But now, when urg'd by tender woes I fpeed to meet my dear, That hill and ftream my zeal oppofe, And check my fond career.