The British Prose Writers...: Gray's lettersJ. Sharpe, 1821 |
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... scene in Pastor Fido that begins , Care selve beati . † Sept. 1738 . * Orator Henley . + This Latin version is extremely elegiac , but as it is only a version I do not insert it . XVIII . FROM MR WEST . I THANK you again 32 32 GRAY'S ...
... scene in Pastor Fido that begins , Care selve beati . † Sept. 1738 . * Orator Henley . + This Latin version is extremely elegiac , but as it is only a version I do not insert it . XVIII . FROM MR WEST . I THANK you again 32 32 GRAY'S ...
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... scenes . The first represents the chaos , and by degrees the sepa- ration of the elements : the second , the temple of Jupiter , and the giving of the box to Pandora : the third , the opening of the box , and all the mis- chiefs that ...
... scenes . The first represents the chaos , and by degrees the sepa- ration of the elements : the second , the temple of Jupiter , and the giving of the box to Pandora : the third , the opening of the box , and all the mis- chiefs that ...
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... echo from the mountains on each side , concurs to form one of the most solemn , the most romantic , and the most astonishing scenes I ever beheld . Add to this the strange views made by the crags and GRAY'S LETTERS . 53.
... echo from the mountains on each side , concurs to form one of the most solemn , the most romantic , and the most astonishing scenes I ever beheld . Add to this the strange views made by the crags and GRAY'S LETTERS . 53.
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... scene , none of them at all came up to it . We were but five hours in performing the whole , from which you may judge of the rapidity of the men's motion . We are now got into Piedmont , and stopped a little while at La Ferriere , a ...
... scene , none of them at all came up to it . We were but five hours in performing the whole , from which you may judge of the rapidity of the men's motion . We are now got into Piedmont , and stopped a little while at La Ferriere , a ...
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... scenes that would awe an atheist into belief , with- out the help of other argument . One need not have a very fantastic imagination to see spirits there at noon - day : You have death perpetually before your eyes ; only so far removed ...
... scenes that would awe an atheist into belief , with- out the help of other argument . One need not have a very fantastic imagination to see spirits there at noon - day : You have death perpetually before your eyes ; only so far removed ...
Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance Adieu admire antiquity antistrophe appear beautiful believe body Borrowdale called Cambridge Caractacus castle church crags desire Dodsley duke Dunciad Elfrida eyes Florence Genoa give Gothic Grande Chartreuse Gray Gray's Greek hand head hear heard hill honour hope house of York imagine Italy journey Keswick king lady lake late least letter live London lord lord Bolingbroke Mason Massinissa mean miles mind Monody mountains Naples never night obliged opinion passed Pembroke College Pembroke-Hall perhaps Peterhouse Pindaric pleasure poem poetry Pray Rheims rise river road rock Rome round scene Scotland seems seen side Skiddaw sort spirits sure Syphax Tacitus taste tell Teverone thing thought tion town trees vale valley verses walk WALPOLE WEST WHARTON whole wish wood write
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Página 67 - I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation, that there was no restraining : Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry.
Página 27 - It is a little chaos of mountains and precipices; mountains, it is true, that do not ascend much above the clouds, nor are the declivities quite so amazing as Dover cliff; but just such hills as people who love their necks as well as I do may venture to climb, and crags that give the eye as much pleasure as if they were more dangerous. Both vale and hill are covered with most venerable beeches, and other very reverend vegetables, that, like most other ancient people, are always dreaming out their...
Página 16 - There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow : there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
Página 123 - I have this to say : the language of the age is never the language of poetry ; except among the French, whose verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs in nothing from prose. Our poetry, on the contrary, has a language peculiar to itself ; to which almost every one, that has written, has added something by enriching it with foreign idioms and derivatives : nay sometimes words of their own composition or invention.
Página 186 - I know, will make me ridiculous enough; but to appear in proper person, at the head of my works, consisting of half a dozen ballads in thirty pages, would be worse than the pillory. I do assure you, if I had received such a book, with such a frontispiece, without any warning, I believe it would have given me a palsy...
Página 144 - In the first place he is the hardest author by far I ever meddled with. Then he has a dry conciseness that makes one imagine one is perusing a table of contents rather than a book ; it tastes for all the world like chopped hay, or rather like chopped logic ; for he has a violent affection to that art, being in some sort his own invention ; so that he often loses himself in little trifling distinctions and verbal niceties, and what is worse, leaves you to extricate yourself as you can. Thirdly, he...
Página 170 - Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind? On some fond breast the parting soul relies. Some pious drops the closing eye requires; Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who mindful of th...
Página 13 - When you have seen one of my days, you have seen a whole year of my life ; they go round and round like the blind horse in the mill, only he has the satisfaction of fancying he makes a progress and gets some ground ; my eyes are open enough to see the same dull prospect, and to know that, having made four-and-twenty steps more, I shall be just where I was.
Página 174 - Guernsey lilies bloom in every window ; the town, clean and well-built, surrounded by its old stone walls, with their towers and gateways, stands at the point of a peninsula, and opens full south to an arm of the sea. which, having formed two beautiful bays on each hand of it, stretches away in direct view till it joins the British Channel: it is skirted on either side with gently-rising grounds, clothed with thick wood, and directly cross its mouth rise the high lands of the Isle of Wight at distance,...
Página 168 - As I am not at all disposed to be either so indulgent, or so correspondent, as they desire, I have but one bad way left to escape the honour they would inflict upon me ; and, therefore, am obliged to desire you would make Dodsley print it immediately (which may be done in less than a week's time) from your copy, but without...