Critical Essays on Some of the Poems of Several English PoetsJames Phillips, 1785 - 386 páginas |
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... almoft in- explicable . What fictitious Perfon is addreffed by the appellation of Silent Nymph , it seems scarcely poffible to dif- cover . Painting , from the expreffions Sifter Mufe , and various hues , might be meant ; but why fhould ...
... almoft in- explicable . What fictitious Perfon is addreffed by the appellation of Silent Nymph , it seems scarcely poffible to dif- cover . Painting , from the expreffions Sifter Mufe , and various hues , might be meant ; but why fhould ...
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... almoft ready to fup- pofe that the love of arts , and of the remains of antiquity , bears him through • various realms , languages , and ages . ' The metonymy , by which we are accuf- tomed tomed to find languages fubftituted for people ...
... almoft ready to fup- pofe that the love of arts , and of the remains of antiquity , bears him through • various realms , languages , and ages . ' The metonymy , by which we are accuf- tomed tomed to find languages fubftituted for people ...
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... almoft infufferable ; he most- ly means by it the ale - house amusements of villagers he here must mean the field- diverfions of their fuperiors . The four lines , Around the world , & c . ' had bet- ter have been fuppreffed : the first ...
... almoft infufferable ; he most- ly means by it the ale - house amusements of villagers he here must mean the field- diverfions of their fuperiors . The four lines , Around the world , & c . ' had bet- ter have been fuppreffed : the first ...
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... almoft to turgidity : to speak of the lover's hating life , ' is speak- ing of an intellectual operation , incom- patible with the fuddennefs of the cir- cumftance . It feems indeed fufficient to have faid , that he stood Speechless ...
... almoft to turgidity : to speak of the lover's hating life , ' is speak- ing of an intellectual operation , incom- patible with the fuddennefs of the cir- cumftance . It feems indeed fufficient to have faid , that he stood Speechless ...
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Página 57 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed. And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Página 246 - 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 44 - 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 263 - Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye, Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired, Where grey-beard mirth and smiling toil retired, Where village statesmen talked with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round.
Página 261 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
Página 226 - 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 58 - There entertain him all the saints above In solemn troops, and sweet societies, That sing, and singing, in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes.
Página 48 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days : But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise...
Página 195 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th
Página 250 - 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...