The Poetical Works of Churchill, Parnell, and Tickell: With a Life of Each, Volumen 1Houghton, Osgood & Company, 1880 |
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... Poet , be made to depend on critical or controversial disquisition , how elaborate soever . Every intelligent reader will construct and graduate his own scale of poetical excellence , according to his peculiar character , feelings , and ...
... Poet , be made to depend on critical or controversial disquisition , how elaborate soever . Every intelligent reader will construct and graduate his own scale of poetical excellence , according to his peculiar character , feelings , and ...
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... Poet as the Editor , the lat- ter trusts he may , with no imputation of an over- weening vanity , be permitted here ... poetic para- graph , that progressive evolution and swell of the versified sentence which elevates poetry into ora ...
... Poet as the Editor , the lat- ter trusts he may , with no imputation of an over- weening vanity , be permitted here ... poetic para- graph , that progressive evolution and swell of the versified sentence which elevates poetry into ora ...
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... poet once so celebrated , who , during the latter period of his life , attracted , more than any of his contemporaries , the attention of the public . The variety of letters , essays , papers , poems , and para- graphs relating to him ...
... poet once so celebrated , who , during the latter period of his life , attracted , more than any of his contemporaries , the attention of the public . The variety of letters , essays , papers , poems , and para- graphs relating to him ...
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... poet- ical amusements ; at length , however , he saw the necessity , as he was designed for the church , of applying to more useful studies , which he now commenced with determined assiduity . This course of indefatigable application he ...
... poet- ical amusements ; at length , however , he saw the necessity , as he was designed for the church , of applying to more useful studies , which he now commenced with determined assiduity . This course of indefatigable application he ...
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... Poets to ages yet unborn appeal , And latest times the eternal nature feel . Though blended here the praise of bard and ... poet's name . The pliant muscles of the various face , The mien that gave each sentence strength and grace , The ...
... Poets to ages yet unborn appeal , And latest times the eternal nature feel . Though blended here the praise of bard and ... poet's name . The pliant muscles of the various face , The mien that gave each sentence strength and grace , The ...
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The Poetical Works of Churchill, Parnell, and Tickell: With a ..., Volumen 1 Charles Churchill Vista de fragmentos - 1844 |
Términos y frases comunes
actor appears bard battle of Minden Bonnell Thornton Bute censure character CHARLES CHURCHILL Churchill Churchill's court Covent Garden crime crown curse dare death died Drury Lane dull Dunciad e'en earth England fame fate favourite fear feel foes folly fools gainst Garrick gave genius George Ghost give Gotham grace hand happy hath heart Hogarth honour Horace Walpole hour humour Johnson justice king labours letter live Lloyd Lord Bute Lord George Sackville Lord Holland Lord Talbot Lord Temple mankind mean merit mighty monarch Muse nature ne'er never night North Briton o'er occasion once passion poem poet Pope praise pride published rage reign Rosciad sacred satire scarce scorn sense slave soul spirit thee things thou thought throne tongue trembling truth vice vile virtue voice Westminster Westminster school Whilst Wilkes wretched zeal
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Página 163 - Excitements of my reason and my blood, And let all sleep, while to my shame I see, The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That, for a fantasy and trick of fame, Go to their graves like beds...
Página 271 - OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker.
Página 147 - How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O Sleep, O gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down. And steep my senses in forgetfulness ! Why, rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber ; Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest melody...
Página 158 - AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot, Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit.
Página 271 - PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country'].
Página 32 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new : Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
Página 199 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Página lxiv - Nay, sir, I am a very fair judge. He did not attack me violently till he found I did not like his poetry ; and his attack on me shall not prevent me from continuing to say what I think of him, from an apprehension that it may be ascribed to resentment. No, sir, I called the fellow a blockhead at first, and I will call him a blockhead still.
Página 45 - To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit.
Página 131 - The exhibitions of the stage were improved to the most exquisite entertainment by the talents and management of Garrick, who greatly surpassed all his predecessors of this and perhaps every other nation, in his genius for acting ; in the sweetness and variety of his tones, the irresistible magic of his eye, the fire and vivacity of his action, the elegance of attitude, and the whole pathos of expression.