The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays, Volume 1Nathan Drake Suttaby, Evance, and Company, 1811 - English essays |
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... equal , or approaching to , those which constitute the pages of what may , not improperly , be termed our " Classical Essay- ists . " These , indeed , proving more numerous than I had , at first , reason to expect , it occurred to me ...
... equal , or approaching to , those which constitute the pages of what may , not improperly , be termed our " Classical Essay- ists . " These , indeed , proving more numerous than I had , at first , reason to expect , it occurred to me ...
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... equal to the most sen- sual pleasures . I forgot to observe , that , during the time of his dissatisfaction , monsters of the deep , which frequently lay on the shore , added to the terrors of his solitude ; their dreadful howlings and ...
... equal to the most sen- sual pleasures . I forgot to observe , that , during the time of his dissatisfaction , monsters of the deep , which frequently lay on the shore , added to the terrors of his solitude ; their dreadful howlings and ...
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... equal to himself . Send away this insignificant shepherdess to her hamlet , and take to your bed and throne some young princess whose birth is answerable to your own . " Florio continued deaf to the instances of his mother ; but , one ...
... equal to himself . Send away this insignificant shepherdess to her hamlet , and take to your bed and throne some young princess whose birth is answerable to your own . " Florio continued deaf to the instances of his mother ; but , one ...
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... equal admira- tion and pleasure . With what wonderful success has nature painted all the scenes of this theatre , the world ! How masterly are her designs , how strong and bold her draughts , how delicate her touches , and how rich and ...
... equal admira- tion and pleasure . With what wonderful success has nature painted all the scenes of this theatre , the world ! How masterly are her designs , how strong and bold her draughts , how delicate her touches , and how rich and ...
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... equal elegance expresses a poetical spirit by the pencil . When a poet has formed an admirable description of a palace , a river , or a grove , the reader in transport cries , what fine painting is this ! Painting is divided into ...
... equal elegance expresses a poetical spirit by the pencil . When a poet has formed an admirable description of a palace , a river , or a grove , the reader in transport cries , what fine painting is this ! Painting is divided into ...
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Page 260 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Page 182 - Where — taming thought to human pride !The mighty chiefs sleep side by side. Drop upon Fox's grave the tear, 'Twill trickle to his rival's bier ; O'er PITT'S the mournful requiem sound, And Fox's shall the notes rebound. The solemn echo seems to cry, ' Here let their discord with them die. Speak not for those a separate doom, Whom Fate made Brothers in the tomb ; But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like agen...
Page 328 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd, — It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd, — It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest : it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown...
Page 122 - To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man: And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began.
Page 53 - With quicken'd step, Brown night retires. Young day pours in apace, And opens all the lawny prospect wide. The dripping rock, the mountain's misty top, Swell on the sight, and brighten with the dawn.
Page 4 - ... the Scriptures, and turning his thoughts upon the study of navigation, after the space of eighteen months he grew thoroughly reconciled to his condition.
Page 182 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Page 182 - Here, where the end of earthly things Lays heroes, patriots, bards, and kings ; Where stiff the hand, and still the tongue, Of those who fought, .and spoke, and sung ; Here, where the fretted aisles prolong The distant notes of holy song, As if some angel spoke agen, All peace on earth, good-will to men...
Page 194 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.