Critical Essays on Some of the Poems of Several English PoetsJames Phillips, 1785 - 386 páginas |
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... couplet is happily inserted in al- lufion to the Eastern fable . Soft as the night bird's amorous music flows In Zibet's garden when she woos the rose . ZERAD . e 3 The The following is highly poetical . There Thirst , fell JOHN SCOTT ...
... couplet is happily inserted in al- lufion to the Eastern fable . Soft as the night bird's amorous music flows In Zibet's garden when she woos the rose . ZERAD . e 3 The The following is highly poetical . There Thirst , fell JOHN SCOTT ...
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... couplet , which probably at the time it was written , might be thought a very fine one , seems to have been hinted by two lines quoted by BURTON , in his Anatomy of Melancholy , from an anonymous author : Be thou the Lady Creffet ...
... couplet , which probably at the time it was written , might be thought a very fine one , seems to have been hinted by two lines quoted by BURTON , in his Anatomy of Melancholy , from an anonymous author : Be thou the Lady Creffet ...
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... couplets , what he might have told in one , that it stands on a pleasant hill . The contrast of a fuppofed rugged precipice , may be thought to affift in conveying a just idea of the place ; but fuch negative defcrip- tion , or ...
... couplets , what he might have told in one , that it stands on a pleasant hill . The contrast of a fuppofed rugged precipice , may be thought to affift in conveying a just idea of the place ; but fuch negative defcrip- tion , or ...
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... couplets . He says , that if destiny ⚫ had given Edward skill to know her will , that then all the blood which ⚫ himself , and his grandfather shed , and all that these fifter nations bled fince , had been unfpilt ; and that he had ...
... couplets . He says , that if destiny ⚫ had given Edward skill to know her will , that then all the blood which ⚫ himself , and his grandfather shed , and all that these fifter nations bled fince , had been unfpilt ; and that he had ...
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... couplets : • Who fees these difmal heaps , but would de- mand , What barbarous invader fack'd the land ? But when he hears no Goth , no Turk did bring This defolation , but a Chriftian king ; When nothing but the name of zeal || appears ...
... couplets : • Who fees these difmal heaps , but would de- mand , What barbarous invader fack'd the land ? But when he hears no Goth , no Turk did bring This defolation , but a Chriftian king ; When nothing but the name of zeal || appears ...
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Página 149 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Página 38 - And all their echoes, mourn. The willows and the hazel copses green Shall now no more be seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays. As killing as the canker to the rose...
Página 192 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Página 156 - The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Página 245 - When time advances, and when lovers fail, She then shines forth, solicitous to bless, In all the glaring impotence of dress.
Página 214 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...
Página 218 - Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man...
Página 100 - Be full, ye courts ; be great who will ; Search for peace with all your skill ; Open wide the lofty door, Seek her on the marble floor ; In vain...
Página 229 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.
Página 161 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th