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... body de- viates from , but those who want strength of genius to make a thought shine in its own natural beauties . Poets who want this strength of genius to give that majestic simplicity to nature , which we so much admire in the works ...
... body de- viates from , but those who want strength of genius to make a thought shine in its own natural beauties . Poets who want this strength of genius to give that majestic simplicity to nature , which we so much admire in the works ...
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... body of acrostics , made up of very disproportioned persons . It was disposed into three columns , the officers planting themselves in a line on the left hand of each column . The officers were all of them at least six feet high , and ...
... body of acrostics , made up of very disproportioned persons . It was disposed into three columns , the officers planting themselves in a line on the left hand of each column . The officers were all of them at least six feet high , and ...
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... bodies of forces which I had before seen in the temple , who were now drawn up in array , and prepared to give their ... body , with a design to stand upon their guard as neuters , and attend the issue of the combat . I must here inform ...
... bodies of forces which I had before seen in the temple , who were now drawn up in array , and prepared to give their ... body , with a design to stand upon their guard as neuters , and attend the issue of the combat . I must here inform ...
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... body of figures . The genius of Heroic Poetry appeared with a sword in her hand , and a laurel on her head . Tragedy was crowned with cypress , and covered with robes dipped in blood . Satire had smiles in her look , and a dagger under ...
... body of figures . The genius of Heroic Poetry appeared with a sword in her hand , and a laurel on her head . Tragedy was crowned with cypress , and covered with robes dipped in blood . Satire had smiles in her look , and a dagger under ...
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... body . I have bestowed two months in teaching her to sigh when she is not concerned , and to smile when she is not pleased , and am ashamed to own she makes little or no improvement . Then she is no more able now to walk , than she was ...
... body . I have bestowed two months in teaching her to sigh when she is not concerned , and to smile when she is not pleased , and am ashamed to own she makes little or no improvement . Then she is no more able now to walk , than she was ...
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Page 221 - I AM always very well pleased with a country Sunday, and think, if keeping holy the seventh day were only a human institution, it would be the best method that could have been thought of for the polishing and civilizing of mankind.
Page 239 - So flew"d, so sanded; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-kneed and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Page 223 - ... than blemish his good qualities. As soon as the sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the church. The knight walks down from his seat in the chancel between a double row of his tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side, and every- now and then...
Page 195 - ... my friend Sir Roger, amidst all his good qualities, is something of an humorist; and that his virtues, as well as imperfections, are as it were tinged by a certain extravagance, which makes them particularly his, and distinguishes them from those of other men. This cast of...
Page 203 - He is extremely well versed in all the little handicrafts of an idle man. He makes a May-fly to a miracle, and furnishes the whole country with angle-rods. As he is a good-natured officious fellow, and very much esteemed upon account of his family, he is a welcome guest at every house, and keeps up a good correspondence among all the gentlemen about him.
Page 33 - Cowley ; so, on the contrary, an ordinary song or ballad that is the -delight of the common people, cannot fail to please all such readers as are not unqualified for the entertainment by their affectation or ignorance ; and the reason is plain, because the same paintings of nature. which recommend it to the most ordinary reader, will appear beautiful to the most refined.
Page 54 - With fifteen hundred bowmen bold, All chosen men of might, Who knew full well in time of need To aim their shafts aright.
Page 264 - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself, seconded by the applauses of the public.
Page 30 - Our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate; our tables are stored with spices and oils and wines; our rooms are filled with pyramids of china, and adorned with the workmanship of Japan; our morning's draught comes to us from the remotest corners of the earth; we repair our bodies by the drugs of America, and repose ourselves under Indian canopies. My friend Sir Andrew calls the vineyards of France our gardens; the Spice Islands our hotbeds; the Persians our silkweavers; and the Chinese...
Page 54 - Lo, yonder doth Earl Douglas come, His men in armour bright ; Full twenty hundred Scottish spears All marching in our sight ; All men of pleasant Teviotdale, Fast by the river Tweed...