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... appear together , and the fertility of his fancy so intimately unites with the sympathetic tenderness of his soul ... appears , at present , with too much distinction in the literary as well as fashionable world , to make it necessary I ...
... appear together , and the fertility of his fancy so intimately unites with the sympathetic tenderness of his soul ... appears , at present , with too much distinction in the literary as well as fashionable world , to make it necessary I ...
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... appear undrest , and in that negligent habit they may be fit to be seen by one or two in a chamber , but not to go abroad in the street . See Life of Cowley , page 38 , Hurd's Edition . 95 Such readers as believe it incumbent on every ...
... appear undrest , and in that negligent habit they may be fit to be seen by one or two in a chamber , but not to go abroad in the street . See Life of Cowley , page 38 , Hurd's Edition . 95 Such readers as believe it incumbent on every ...
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... appear under my name . As yet I have not looked into Sir Isaac . Public dis- putations I hate ; mathematics I reverence ; history , morality , and natural philosophy have the greatest charms in my eye ; but who can forget poetry ? they ...
... appear under my name . As yet I have not looked into Sir Isaac . Public dis- putations I hate ; mathematics I reverence ; history , morality , and natural philosophy have the greatest charms in my eye ; but who can forget poetry ? they ...
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... appear , Would pluck the promise of the vernal year : Almost all Tibullus's elegy is imitated in this little piece , from whence his transition to Mr. Pope's letter is very artfully contrived , and bespeaks a degree of judgment much ...
... appear , Would pluck the promise of the vernal year : Almost all Tibullus's elegy is imitated in this little piece , from whence his transition to Mr. Pope's letter is very artfully contrived , and bespeaks a degree of judgment much ...
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... " Vide ibid . " The morning after my exit the sun will rise as bright as ever , the flowers smell as sweet , the plants spring as green : " so far Mr. West copies his original ; Bright as before the day - star will appear , 26 GRAY'S LIFE.
... " Vide ibid . " The morning after my exit the sun will rise as bright as ever , the flowers smell as sweet , the plants spring as green : " so far Mr. West copies his original ; Bright as before the day - star will appear , 26 GRAY'S LIFE.
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Page 371 - Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint To sweeten liberty: Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry: Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.
Page 377 - This pencil take' (she said), 'whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year: Thine, too, these golden keys, immortal Boy! This can unlock the gates of joy; Of horror that, and thrilling fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.
Page 398 - 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, Muttering his wayward fancies he would rove; Now drooping, woeful, wan, like one forlorn, Or craz'd with care, or cross'd in hopeless love.
Page 118 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, 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 380 - Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward's race ; Give ample room, and verge enough, The characters of hell to trace...
Page 399 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath, and near his favourite tree ; Another came : nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he : The next, with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne, — Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 373 - And from her own she learn'd to melt at others' woe. Scared at thy frown terrific, fly Self-pleasing Folly's idle brood, Wild Laughter, Noise, and thoughtless Joy, And leave us leisure to be good. Light they disperse, and with them go The summer friend, the flattering foe ; By vain Prosperity received, To her they vow their truth, and are again believed.
Page 372 - Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet, ah ! why should they know their fate. Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise! No more; — where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
Page 375 - Man's feeble race what ills await ! . Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain, Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train, And Death, sad refuge from the storms of fate ! The fond complaint, my song, disprove, And justify the laws of Jove.
Page 397 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear ; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood ; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest ; Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. Th...