An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...W.J. and J. Richardson, 1806 - 416 pages |
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... hath studied manners and passions . Some of Milton's most early , as well as most exquisite pieces , are his Lycidas , L'Allegro , and Il Penseroso ; if we may except his Ode on the Nativity of Christ , which is , indeed , prior in the ...
... hath studied manners and passions . Some of Milton's most early , as well as most exquisite pieces , are his Lycidas , L'Allegro , and Il Penseroso ; if we may except his Ode on the Nativity of Christ , which is , indeed , prior in the ...
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... Hath left in shadows dread , His burning idol all of blackest hue ; In vain with cimbals ring : They call the griesly king , In dismal dance about the furnace blue . * 1 Attention is irresistibly awakened and engaged by that air of ...
... Hath left in shadows dread , His burning idol all of blackest hue ; In vain with cimbals ring : They call the griesly king , In dismal dance about the furnace blue . * 1 Attention is irresistibly awakened and engaged by that air of ...
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... hath enriched poetry with a variety of new and original images , which he painted from nature itself , and from his own actual observations : his descriptions have , therefore , a distinctness and truth , which are utterly wanting to ...
... hath enriched poetry with a variety of new and original images , which he painted from nature itself , and from his own actual observations : his descriptions have , therefore , a distinctness and truth , which are utterly wanting to ...
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... hath ever taken notice of the leaf , that , towards the end of autumn , Incessant rustles from the mournful grove , * Oft startling such as , studious , walk below , And slowly circles through the waving air ? Or who , in speaking of a ...
... hath ever taken notice of the leaf , that , towards the end of autumn , Incessant rustles from the mournful grove , * Oft startling such as , studious , walk below , And slowly circles through the waving air ? Or who , in speaking of a ...
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... hath escaped even the na- tural Theocritus . Nor do I recollect that any poet hath been struck with the murmurs of the numberless insects that swarm abroad at the * Summer , ver . 479. † Summer , ver . 485. et seq . the noon of a ...
... hath escaped even the na- tural Theocritus . Nor do I recollect that any poet hath been struck with the murmurs of the numberless insects that swarm abroad at the * Summer , ver . 479. † Summer , ver . 485. et seq . the noon of a ...
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Page 7 - Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream. Ay me, I fondly dream ! Had ye been there...
Page 134 - Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky, Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last: But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way, Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes.
Page 145 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 231 - Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine, (The victor cried) the glorious prize is mine ! While fish in streams, or birds delight in air, Or in a coach and six the British fair, As long as Atalantis shall be read...
Page 313 - But o'er the twilight groves and dusky caves, Long-sounding aisles and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green ; Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods.
Page 219 - water glide away, And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude sinks downward to a gnome, In search of mischief still on earth to roam. The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air.
Page 148 - Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin or in Greek, We write in sand, our language grows, And like the tide our work o'erflows.
Page 220 - Repairs her smiles, awakens every grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face ; Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes. The busy sylphs surround their darling care, These set the head, and those divide the hair, Some fold the sleeve, whilst others plait the gown ; And Betty's prais'd for labours not her own. CANTO II. NOT with more glories, in th...
Page 223 - On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Page 130 - From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, Which without passing thro' the judgment, gains The heart, and all its end at once attains.