Critical Essays on Some of the Poems of Several English PoetsJames Phillips, 1785 - 386 pagina's |
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Pagina xxiv
... last two copies of verses , which are fuperior to the first , are spirited and poetical : it is obfervable , that with the two first he has ufed the fignature , R. S. Besides the last verses on Fear , Scott wrote an ode on the fame ...
... last two copies of verses , which are fuperior to the first , are spirited and poetical : it is obfervable , that with the two first he has ufed the fignature , R. S. Besides the last verses on Fear , Scott wrote an ode on the fame ...
Pagina lxxix
... last- ing importance to names , which , left to themselves , would vanish from remem- brance . * " From the time of Mr. Scott's fecond marriage till his death , he seems to have enjoyed a life of great tranquillity ; gra- tified with ...
... last- ing importance to names , which , left to themselves , would vanish from remem- brance . * " From the time of Mr. Scott's fecond marriage till his death , he seems to have enjoyed a life of great tranquillity ; gra- tified with ...
Pagina lxxxi
... last , with his understanding at all times clear and unimpaired , he expired at his house in Radcliff , being fifty - four years of age . He was buried in the Quakers burying- ground at Radcliff , on the 18th of the fame month ; his ...
... last , with his understanding at all times clear and unimpaired , he expired at his house in Radcliff , being fifty - four years of age . He was buried in the Quakers burying- ground at Radcliff , on the 18th of the fame month ; his ...
Pagina 23
... last couplet is so smooth and sweet , that the paffage , however celebrated , ' has not been praised above its merit . It has beauty peculiar to itself , and ' must be numbered among those feli- cities , which cannot be produced at ...
... last couplet is so smooth and sweet , that the paffage , however celebrated , ' has not been praised above its merit . It has beauty peculiar to itself , and ' must be numbered among those feli- cities , which cannot be produced at ...
Pagina 28
... last two lines indeed have more mu- fick than Denham's can commonly boast : The ftream is so transparent , pure , and clear , That had the felf - enamour'd youth gaz'd here , So fatally deceiv'd he had not been , While he the bottom ...
... last two lines indeed have more mu- fick than Denham's can commonly boast : The ftream is so transparent , pure , and clear , That had the felf - enamour'd youth gaz'd here , So fatally deceiv'd he had not been , While he the bottom ...
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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...
Pagina 195 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th
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...