Letters ... written between the years 1784 and 1807 [ed. by A. Constable].1811 |
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... poetry . Poetry is like personal beauty ; the homeliest and roughest language cannot conceal the first , any more than can coarse and mean apparel the second . But grovelling colloquial phrase , in num- bers inharmonious ; verse that ...
... poetry . Poetry is like personal beauty ; the homeliest and roughest language cannot conceal the first , any more than can coarse and mean apparel the second . But grovelling colloquial phrase , in num- bers inharmonious ; verse that ...
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... poetic edifices in our language , the Henry and Emma . With equal insolence and stupidity , Mr Headly terms it " Matt's versification Piece , " extolling the im- puted superiority of the worthless model . It is preferring a barber's ...
... poetic edifices in our language , the Henry and Emma . With equal insolence and stupidity , Mr Headly terms it " Matt's versification Piece , " extolling the im- puted superiority of the worthless model . It is preferring a barber's ...
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... poetry in the first old tale , which you call beautiful , excepting the second stanza , which gives the unicorns at the gate , and the portraits , " with holly aboon their brie . " To give them , no great reach of fancy was requisite ...
... poetry in the first old tale , which you call beautiful , excepting the second stanza , which gives the unicorns at the gate , and the portraits , " with holly aboon their brie . " To give them , no great reach of fancy was requisite ...
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... poetry , and to the eye , thus , " The next blast that young Keelder blew , The wind grew deadly still ; Yet the sleek fern , with fingery leaves , Wav'd wildly o'er the hill . " The " wee Demon " is admirably imagined . And now the poetic ...
... poetry , and to the eye , thus , " The next blast that young Keelder blew , The wind grew deadly still ; Yet the sleek fern , with fingery leaves , Wav'd wildly o'er the hill . " The " wee Demon " is admirably imagined . And now the poetic ...
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... poetry basked delighted ; and on whose discernment into the cause of diseases , and skill in curing them , his own , and the neighbouring counties reposed . He was born to confute , by his example , a frequent assertion , that the poetic ...
... poetry basked delighted ; and on whose discernment into the cause of diseases , and skill in curing them , his own , and the neighbouring counties reposed . He was born to confute , by his example , a frequent assertion , that the poetic ...
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Adieu admirable amongst anguish ANNA SEWARD attention avowed ballad bard beauty beneath blank-verse border ballads Cadzow Castle Captain Hastings character charming circumstance compositions consciousness countenance Cowper dark dear delight Dr Darwin Dr Johnson dreadful elegance eloquence epic esteem excellence fancy feel France genius glowing grace gratified H. F. CARY happy heart Homer honour hope hour human imagination ingenious interest Johnson justly Lady landscape late LEE PHILIPS less LETTER Lichfield live lost Madoc Milton mind Minstrel Miss muse nature never observe Paradise Lost passed peace perusal pleasure poem poet poetic poetry Powys praise present prose Prussia render rhyme Saville scene Scotland Shakespeare soul Southey spirit stanza strange style sublime surely sweet talents taste thank thought tion translation verse volume WALTER SCOTT WILLIAM HAYLEY writing youth
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Page 330 - Oh! while along the stream of Time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale?
Page 273 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 165 - I do not like thee, Doctor Fell; The reason why I cannot tell; But this I know and know full well. I do not like thee. Doctor Fell!
Page 222 - Resolved, their uses done. Not to the grave, not to the grave, my soul, Follow thy friend beloved ; The spirit is not there...
Page 91 - More dreadful and deform : on th' other side Incenst with indignation Satan stood Unterrifi'd, and like a Comet burn'd, That fires the length of Ophiucus huge In th' Artick Sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes Pestilence and Warr.
Page 305 - True wit is nature to advantage drest; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well exprest.
Page 168 - THE lapse of time and rivers is the same, Both speed their journey with a restless stream ; The silent pace with which they steal away, No wealth can bribe, no prayers persuade to stay; Alike irrevocable both when past, And a wide ocean swallows both at last.
Page 168 - Christ, and he is fighting for his own notions. He thinks that he is skilfully searching the hearts of others, when he is only gratifying the malignity of his own, and charitably supposes his hearers destitute of all grace, that he may shine the more in his own eyes by comparison.
Page 113 - ONCE in the heart, cold in yon narrow cell, Did each mild grace, each ardent virtue dwell ; Kind aid, kind tears for others
Page 104 - Art thou, my Gregory, for ever fled ! And am I left to unavailing woe ! When fortune's storms assail this weary. head, Where cares long since have shed untim'ely snow ! Ah, now for comfort whither shall I go ! No more thy soothing voice my anguish cheers : Thy placid eyes with smiles no longer glow, My hopes to cherish, and allay my fears. Tis meet that I should mourn : flow forth afresh, my tears.