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Page xxv
... reflecting on a doctrine established in the chapter of Resemblance and Contrast , that the pleasure of resemblance is the greatest when it is least expected , and when the objects com- pared are in their capital circumstances widely ...
... reflecting on a doctrine established in the chapter of Resemblance and Contrast , that the pleasure of resemblance is the greatest when it is least expected , and when the objects com- pared are in their capital circumstances widely ...
Page xlii
... reflections on this subject in the xviiith Lecture , of Dr. Priestley's Lectures on Oratory and Criticism . And Beattie's Essay on Poetry , p . 560 , 4to , and Dr. Young on Lyric Poetry , vol . vi . p . his style , from the pages of a ...
... reflections on this subject in the xviiith Lecture , of Dr. Priestley's Lectures on Oratory and Criticism . And Beattie's Essay on Poetry , p . 560 , 4to , and Dr. Young on Lyric Poetry , vol . vi . p . his style , from the pages of a ...
Page liii
... reflections of Tacitus . Good and beautiful com- 66 * On the want of character in the French plays , see Webb on Poetry , p . 104 ; who quotes a note from Dacier on the passage in Aristotle's Poetics , where he is censuring the poets of ...
... reflections of Tacitus . Good and beautiful com- 66 * On the want of character in the French plays , see Webb on Poetry , p . 104 ; who quotes a note from Dacier on the passage in Aristotle's Poetics , where he is censuring the poets of ...
Page lviii
... reflection and sentiment . As to description , I have always thought that it made the most graceful ornament of poetry , but never ought to make the subject . " - The practice of Gray seems to me , to coincide very correctly with his ...
... reflection and sentiment . As to description , I have always thought that it made the most graceful ornament of poetry , but never ought to make the subject . " - The practice of Gray seems to me , to coincide very correctly with his ...
Page lxi
... reflections of this nature , have selected some remarkable situation , which might suggest greater variety of thought and ... reflection , upon moral life , or po- litical institution ; much in the same manner , as the real sight of such ...
... reflections of this nature , have selected some remarkable situation , which might suggest greater variety of thought and ... reflection , upon moral life , or po- litical institution ; much in the same manner , as the real sight of such ...
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Page lv - There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are showers of violets found; The red-breast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.
Page c - And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind is our time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities; partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment and the final work of a head filled by long reading and observing with elegant maxims and copious invention.
Page lxxi - Fair laughs the Morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes: Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm: Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That hush'd in grim repose expects his evening prey.
Page 147 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
Page 3 - It is very possible that two and two make four, but I would not give four farthings to demonstrate this ever so clearly ; and if these be the profits of life, give me the amusements of it.
Page cviii - The Prospect of Eton College suggests nothing to Gray, which every beholder does not equally think and feel. His supplication to father Thames, to tell him who drives the hoop or tosses the ball, is useless and puerile. Father Thames has no better means of knowing than himself. His epithet buxom health is not elegant; he seems not to understand the word.
Page cii - It is indisputably evident that a great part of every man's life must be employed in collecting materials for the exercise of genius. Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory...
Page 141 - I admire in him above all this, is his detestation of tyranny, and the high spirit of liberty that every now and then breaks out, as it were, whether he would or no. I remember a sentence in his Agricola that (concise as it is) I always admired for saying much in a little compass. He speaks of Domitian, who upon seeing the last will of that general, where he had made him coheir with his wife and daughter, " Satis constabat laetatum eum, velut honore, judicioque: tam caeca et corrupta mens assiduis...
Page lv - 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. 'Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, Mutt'ring his wayward fancies he would rove; Now drooping, woful-wan, like one forlorn, Or craz'd with care, or cross'd in hopeless love.
Page cxvii - 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.