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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... true that few or none of the poets we have named had much im- mediate influence on literature : Gray was ridiculed , and Collins was neglected , because both public taste and criticism had been vitiated and reduced to a low ebb . The ...
... true that few or none of the poets we have named had much im- mediate influence on literature : Gray was ridiculed , and Collins was neglected , because both public taste and criticism had been vitiated and reduced to a low ebb . The ...
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... true ; but they did not permanently political supporter , to come forward as a candidate influence his conduct . He was not weaned from the for the representation of the borough of Cirencester world till age had incapacitated him for ...
... true ; but they did not permanently political supporter , to come forward as a candidate influence his conduct . He was not weaned from the for the representation of the borough of Cirencester world till age had incapacitated him for ...
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... true existence is not yet begun . His glorious course was yesterday complete ; Death then was welcome , yet life still is sweet . [ Procrastination . ] Be wise to - day ; ' tis madness to defer : Next day the fatal precedent will plead ...
... true existence is not yet begun . His glorious course was yesterday complete ; Death then was welcome , yet life still is sweet . [ Procrastination . ] Be wise to - day ; ' tis madness to defer : Next day the fatal precedent will plead ...
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... true and beautiful are the descriptions in the poem , and so entirely do they harmonise with those fresh feelings and glowing impulses which all would wish to cherish , that a love of nature seems to be synony- mous with a love of ...
... true and beautiful are the descriptions in the poem , and so entirely do they harmonise with those fresh feelings and glowing impulses which all would wish to cherish , that a love of nature seems to be synony- mous with a love of ...
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... true golden age indeed ! Sometimes the pencil , in cool airy halls , Bade the gay bloom of vernal landscapes rise , Or autumn's varied shades imbrown the walls ; Now the black tempest strikes the astonished eyes , Now down the steep the ...
... true golden age indeed ! Sometimes the pencil , in cool airy halls , Bade the gay bloom of vernal landscapes rise , Or autumn's varied shades imbrown the walls ; Now the black tempest strikes the astonished eyes , Now down the steep the ...
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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