Critical Essays on Some of the Poems of Several English PoetsJames Phillips, 1785 - 386 pagina's |
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Pagina xx
... just regard , On Judah's plains thus fung the royal bard . Thy Maker God in early time revere ! Ere evil days , thofe dreadful days , draw near , When health fhall fly , and pleasure leave the plain , And woe and languor and diftrefs ...
... just regard , On Judah's plains thus fung the royal bard . Thy Maker God in early time revere ! Ere evil days , thofe dreadful days , draw near , When health fhall fly , and pleasure leave the plain , And woe and languor and diftrefs ...
Pagina lviii
... just- ly esteemed one of the greatest convenien- ces in that part of the country ; and by his attention and diligence , alterations have been made in the principal streets of Ware , to the great improvement of that town . As he was well ...
... just- ly esteemed one of the greatest convenien- ces in that part of the country ; and by his attention and diligence , alterations have been made in the principal streets of Ware , to the great improvement of that town . As he was well ...
Pagina 8
... just placed in comparison . But the reader fhall judge from the text itself , and fee if he can find any interpretation that will acquit the paffage of the charge of abfurdity : Under Under his proud furvey the city lies , And like 8 ...
... just placed in comparison . But the reader fhall judge from the text itself , and fee if he can find any interpretation that will acquit the paffage of the charge of abfurdity : Under Under his proud furvey the city lies , And like 8 ...
Pagina 9
... just idea of the place ; but fuch negative descrip- tion , or illustration , of what a thing is , by what it is not , on the contrary , ferves Among the mob of gentlemen who wrote with cafe , violation of grammatical propriety was a ...
... just idea of the place ; but fuch negative descrip- tion , or illustration , of what a thing is , by what it is not , on the contrary , ferves Among the mob of gentlemen who wrote with cafe , violation of grammatical propriety was a ...
Pagina 17
... just ever given : True wit is nature to advantage dreft , What oft was thought , but ne'er fo well exprest . Denham , and his cotemporaries , on the contrary , seem to have imagined all merit to confift in thinking differently from ...
... just ever given : True wit is nature to advantage dreft , What oft was thought , but ne'er fo well exprest . Denham , and his cotemporaries , on the contrary , seem to have imagined all merit to confift in thinking differently from ...
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Pagina 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...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 261 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
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Pagina 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...