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Page iii
... poetical bent , has afterwards affumed a dif- ferent direction . The examples of Denham and Waller prove at least , that poetical powers , after long lying latent , may difplay themselves at rather a late period in life . Poetry is ...
... poetical bent , has afterwards affumed a dif- ferent direction . The examples of Denham and Waller prove at least , that poetical powers , after long lying latent , may difplay themselves at rather a late period in life . Poetry is ...
Page iv
... poetical garb . And luxuriance of imagination , and delicacy of feeling have often diftinguished men who never thought of writing either verfe or profe . IN oppofition to the above maxim , and to the opinion which represents men as ...
... poetical garb . And luxuriance of imagination , and delicacy of feeling have often diftinguished men who never thought of writing either verfe or profe . IN oppofition to the above maxim , and to the opinion which represents men as ...
Page v
... poetical compofition , particu- larly in blank verfe , from flight and apparently indifferent circumstances in the conduct of his education . The praises and advices of his poetical friends would encourage the growing bias . The fcenery ...
... poetical compofition , particu- larly in blank verfe , from flight and apparently indifferent circumstances in the conduct of his education . The praises and advices of his poetical friends would encourage the growing bias . The fcenery ...
Page vi
James Thomson, Robert Heron. of his poetical friends , would equally confpire to confirm his predilection for poetry , and to prompt him to renewed efforts in poetical compofition . IN the second feffion of his attendance at the ...
James Thomson, Robert Heron. of his poetical friends , would equally confpire to confirm his predilection for poetry , and to prompt him to renewed efforts in poetical compofition . IN the second feffion of his attendance at the ...
Page vii
... poetical merits , chiefly of Addifon , had raised him , through the gradations of office , to be , at laft , fecretary of state . Montague and Prior , who had , in the Mice , combatted the Panther , owed their political advancement , in ...
... poetical merits , chiefly of Addifon , had raised him , through the gradations of office , to be , at laft , fecretary of state . Montague and Prior , who had , in the Mice , combatted the Panther , owed their political advancement , in ...
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Page 235 - Great Source of day, best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On Nature write with every beam his praise.
Page 233 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent.
Page 53 - Till far o'er ether spreads the widening glow And from before the lustre of her face White break the clouds away. With quickened 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. Blue through the dusk the smoking currents shine, And from the bladed field the fearful hare Limps awkward, while along the forest glade The wild deer trip and often turning gaze At early passenger.
Page 237 - Of the green earth, to distant barbarous climes, Rivers unknown to song, where first the sun Gilds Indian mountains, or his setting beam Flames on the...
Page 235 - Ye softer floods, that lead the humid maze Along the vale ; and thou, majestic main, A secret world of wonders in thyself, Sound his stupendous praise whose greater voice Or bids you roar, or bids your roarings fall.
Page 196 - Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is; Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.
Page 199 - Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Page 98 - The dash of clouds, or irritating war Of fighting winds, while all is calm below, They furious spring. A boding silence reigns, Dread through the dun...
Page 215 - An icy gale, oft shifting, o'er the pool Breathes a blue film, and in its mid career Arrests the bickering stream.
Page 233 - With light and heat refulgent. Then thy sun Shoots full perfection through the swelling year: And oft thy voice in dreadful thunder speaks, And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve, By brooks and groves in hollow-whispering gales.