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... Allan Ramsay , 283 Alexander Pope , 284 John Gay , 289 Robert Blair , 290 297 298 300 304 305 ... 306 306 306 295 Oliver Goldsmith , 307 Samuel Johnson , 292 Thomas Gray , 294 William Collins , Cooper's Hill , Hymn to Light , To the ...
... Allan Ramsay , 283 Alexander Pope , 284 John Gay , 289 Robert Blair , 290 297 298 300 304 305 ... 306 306 306 295 Oliver Goldsmith , 307 Samuel Johnson , 292 Thomas Gray , 294 William Collins , Cooper's Hill , Hymn to Light , To the ...
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... traits of his character which have been preserved by his biographers , little calculated to elevate him personally in the YOUNG . 297 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Edward Young, Allan Ramsay, Alexander Pope, John Gay, Robert Blair,
... traits of his character which have been preserved by his biographers , little calculated to elevate him personally in the YOUNG . 297 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Edward Young, Allan Ramsay, Alexander Pope, John Gay, Robert Blair,
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... ALLAN RAMSAY . BORN , 1686 ; DIED , 1758 . A PECULIAR interest hangs around the names both of Allan Ramsay and of Robert Ferguson , as the two pre- cursors of Robert Burns . Ramsay , the author of the fine , simple , pastoral drama ...
... ALLAN RAMSAY . BORN , 1686 ; DIED , 1758 . A PECULIAR interest hangs around the names both of Allan Ramsay and of Robert Ferguson , as the two pre- cursors of Robert Burns . Ramsay , the author of the fine , simple , pastoral drama ...
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... Allan Ramsay , he might have smiled at the bitterest attacks of rivals , alike inferior to him in wit and genius . But when he unwisely threw himself into such wretched contentions , he gave up his whole soul to the unworthy struggle ...
... Allan Ramsay , he might have smiled at the bitterest attacks of rivals , alike inferior to him in wit and genius . But when he unwisely threw himself into such wretched contentions , he gave up his whole soul to the unworthy struggle ...
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... Allan Ramsay , amid pastoral scenes , or , like Burns , amid the genial , though rugged vicissitudes of agricultural life , he would have left evidences of his poetic genius , perchance as much more noble than his fine " Rape of the ...
... Allan Ramsay , amid pastoral scenes , or , like Burns , amid the genial , though rugged vicissitudes of agricultural life , he would have left evidences of his poetic genius , perchance as much more noble than his fine " Rape of the ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Allan Ramsay amid beauty Ben Jonson beneath blessed born breast breath bright burning CAROLINE BOWLES Charles II Chaucer clouds crown dark dead death deep died dost doth dread dream Earl of Surrey earth EDMUND SPENSER Elizabethan era England eternal eyes fair fame father flowers frae gaze genius gentle glorious glory glowing grace grave green happy hast hath heart heaven helmet of Navarre Henry of Navarre holy honour hour HYMN king land light live look Lord lyre mind morning mountain never night noble o'er pain PHILIP MASSINGER poems poet praise pride Queen rise round shade Shakspeare shine sing skies sleep smile soft song sorrow soul sound Spenser spirit spring stars storm stream sweet tears tell thee thine things thou art thought vale voice waves weary weep Westminster Abbey wild wind wings wood youth
Pasajes populares
Página 81 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Página 142 - MY HEART aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk...
Página 346 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks He shall attend, . And all my midnight hours defend.
Página 145 - Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness ! Close bosom-friend of the maturing Sun ! Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run ; To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core...
Página 431 - And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For heaven's sake let us sit upon the ground...
Página 378 - The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Página 260 - Abide with me from morn till eve, For without Thee I cannot live ; Abide with me when night is nigh, For without Thee I dare not die.
Página 136 - Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
Página 145 - Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind; Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep, Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers; And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep Steady thy laden head across a brook Or by a cider-press, with patient look Thou watchest the last oozings, hours by hours. Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too...
Página 58 - THOU lingering star, with lessening ray That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the day My Mary from my heart was torn. O Mary ! dear departed shade ! Where is thy place of blissful rest ? See'st thou thy lover lowly laid ? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast...