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Page iii - The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Page vii - Fortune, that with malicious joy Does Man, her slave, oppress, Proud of her office to destroy, Is seldom pleased to bless ; Still various, and inconstant still, But with an inclination to be ill, Promotes, degrades, delights in strife, And makes a lottery of life. I can enjoy her while she's kind; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes her wings, and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away...
Page xviii - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Page xxi - He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
Page xvii - FROM the preceding view of English versification, we may see what a copious stock of materials it possesses. For we are not only allowed the use of all the ancient poetic feet, in our heroic measure, but we have, as before observed...
Page v - TITYRUS. /"T~'ITYRE, tu patulae recubans sub tegmine fagi •*• silvestrem tenui Musam meditaris avena ; nos patriae fines et dulcia linquimus arva : nos patriam fugimus ; tu, Tityre, lentus in umbra formosam resonare doces Amaryllida silvas.
Page xviii - Anapaests, &c. it is capable of many varieties. Indeed, most of the English common measures may be varied in the same way, as well as by the different position of their pauses.
Page xxi - Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, Angels ; for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night Circle his throne, rejoicing; ye in heaven, On earth, join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end. Thou Sun, of this great world both eye and soul, Acknowledge him thy greater, sound his praise In thy eternal course. Air, and ye elements, let your ceaseless change Vary to your great Maker still new praise. His praise, ye winds, that...
Page vii - ... the acted scene ; What hath been, spite of Jove himself, hath been. % But Fortune, ever-changing dame, Indulges her malicious joy, And constant plays her haughty game, Proud of her office to destroy; To-day to me her bounty flows, And now on others she the bliss bestows.
Page xii - ... to the study of the written language, and neglecting that of speech. When the art of reading with propriety shall have been established and produced its effects, a new field will be opened to our writers, unknown to their predecessors, for composition both in poetry and prose, which will display in a new light the vast compass of our language in point of harmony and expression, from the same cause which produced similar effects at Rome in the writers of the Ciceronian or Augustan age.