Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British Authors from the Earliest to the Present Times, Volume 2Chambers, 1844 |
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... appeared the same year . Summer ' appeared in 1727. In 1728 he issued proposals for publishing , by subscription , the ' Four Seasons ; the number of subscribers , at a guinea each copy , was 387 ; but many took more than one , and Pope ...
... appeared the same year . Summer ' appeared in 1727. In 1728 he issued proposals for publishing , by subscription , the ' Four Seasons ; the number of subscribers , at a guinea each copy , was 387 ; but many took more than one , and Pope ...
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... appeared , O had he never seen that day ! Their colours and their sash he wore , And in the fatal dress was found ; And now he must that death endure , Which gives the brave the keenest wound . How pale was then his true love's cheek ...
... appeared , O had he never seen that day ! Their colours and their sash he wore , And in the fatal dress was found ; And now he must that death endure , Which gives the brave the keenest wound . How pale was then his true love's cheek ...
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... appearance as a poet was made in 1747 , when his Ode to Eton College was published by Dodsley . Two years afterwards , his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard was printed , and immediately became popular . His Pindaric Odes appeared ...
... appearance as a poet was made in 1747 , when his Ode to Eton College was published by Dodsley . Two years afterwards , his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard was printed , and immediately became popular . His Pindaric Odes appeared ...
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... appeared early as a poet . He was the son of the Rev. Mr Mason , vicar of St. Trinity , Yorkshire , where he was born in 1725 . At Pembroke college , Cambridge , he became ac- quainted with Gray , who assisted him in obtaining his ...
... appeared early as a poet . He was the son of the Rev. Mr Mason , vicar of St. Trinity , Yorkshire , where he was born in 1725 . At Pembroke college , Cambridge , he became ac- quainted with Gray , who assisted him in obtaining his ...
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... appeared that his companions were Scotsmen , in the French service , and had been in Scotland enlist- ing soldiers for the French army . Having over- come this most innocent of all his misfortunes , he is represented as having ...
... appeared that his companions were Scotsmen , in the French service , and had been in Scotland enlist- ing soldiers for the French army . Having over- come this most innocent of all his misfortunes , he is represented as having ...
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Page 376 - drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corpse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dinily burning.
Page 54 - d to the prattle of the purling rille, Were heard the lowing herds along the vale, And flocks loud bleating from the distant hills, And vacant shepherds piping in the dale : And now and then sweet Philomel would wail, Or stock-doves 'plain amid the forest deep, That drowsy rustled to the sighing
Page 54 - to stray ; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered
Page 346 - . The volume closed, the customary rites Of the last meal commence. A Roman meal ; Such as the mistress of the world once found Delicious, when her patriots of high note, And
Page 324 - words are these:—'I don't know what I may seem to the world ; but as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of Truth lay all
Page 60 - of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their wo; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was hi
Page 372 - him soft names in many a mused rhyme, Darkling I listen ; and for many a time To take into the air my quiet breath ; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an
Page 377 - thyself; and take a couple of bottles with my service, and tell him he is heartily welcome to them, and to a dozen more if they will do him good. My uncle