Literary Hours: Or, Sketches Critical and Narrative, Volume 2J. Burkitt, 1800 - English literature |
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... observes Dr. Blair , " had they been presented to us adorned with the sweetness and harmony of the Virgilian numbers . " ‡ With one passage more from the poem entitled The Battle of Lora , I shall conclude this selection of scenes ...
... observes Dr. Blair , " had they been presented to us adorned with the sweetness and harmony of the Virgilian numbers . " ‡ With one passage more from the poem entitled The Battle of Lora , I shall conclude this selection of scenes ...
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... observes the Doctor , " the languor and listlessness of a person deeply in love ; we may suppose the fair author looking up earnestly on her mother , casting down the web on which she was em- ployed , and suddenly exclaiming " † Γλυκεια ...
... observes the Doctor , " the languor and listlessness of a person deeply in love ; we may suppose the fair author looking up earnestly on her mother , casting down the web on which she was em- ployed , and suddenly exclaiming " † Γλυκεια ...
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... observes Tempore quo primùm vestis mihi tradita pura est , Jucundum cùm ætas florida vir ageret , Multa satìs lusi : non est dea nescia nostrî , Quæ dulcem curis miscet amaritiem . Sed totum hoc studium luctu fraterna mihi mors Abscidit ...
... observes Tempore quo primùm vestis mihi tradita pura est , Jucundum cùm ætas florida vir ageret , Multa satìs lusi : non est dea nescia nostrî , Quæ dulcem curis miscet amaritiem . Sed totum hoc studium luctu fraterna mihi mors Abscidit ...
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... observes , Milton's poem is admirable in this respect , since it is impossible for any of its readers , whatever nation , country , or people he may belong to , not to be related to the persons who are the principal actors in it ...
... observes , Milton's poem is admirable in this respect , since it is impossible for any of its readers , whatever nation , country , or people he may belong to , not to be related to the persons who are the principal actors in it ...
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... observes the Author of The Pursuits of Literature , there is an originality and a hardihood of antiquity . His soul was dark and sullen ; it was proud and full of his wrongs . Frons læta parum et dejecto lumina vultu . He passed through ...
... observes the Author of The Pursuits of Literature , there is an originality and a hardihood of antiquity . His soul was dark and sullen ; it was proud and full of his wrongs . Frons læta parum et dejecto lumina vultu . He passed through ...
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Page 124 - REMOTE, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po ; Or onward, where the rude Carinthian boor Against the houseless stranger shuts the door ; Or where Campania's plain forsaken lies, A weary waste expanding to the skies ; Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravell'd fondly turns to thee ; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
Page 338 - Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft out-watch the Bear With thrice-great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Page 298 - Sovereign of the willing soul, Parent of sweet and solemn-breathing airs, Enchanting shell! the sullen Cares, And frantic Passions, hear thy soft control.
Page 3 - I, clapping my hands cheerily together, that was I in a desert, I would find out wherewith in it to call forth my affections : — if I could not do better, I would fasten them upon some sweet myrtle, or seek some melancholy cypress to connect myself to; — I would court their shade, and greet them kindly for their protection ; — I would cut my name upon them, and swear they were the loveliest trees throughout the desert; — if their leaves withered, I would teach myself to mourn: — and when...
Page 458 - Or gazed in merry clusters by your side ? Ye who can smile — to wisdom no disgrace — At the arch meaning of a kitten's face ; If spotless innocence, and infant mirth, Excites to praise, or gives reflection birth ; In shades like these pursue your favorite joy, Midst Nature's revels, sports that never cloy.
Page 253 - Along the woods, along the moorish fens, Sighs the sad genius of the coming storm ; And up among the loose disjointed cliffs, And fractur'd mountains wild, the brawling brook And cave, presageful, send a hollow moan, Resounding long in listening Fancy's ear.
Page 71 - Inspire my dreams, and my wild wanderings guide ; Your voice each rugged path of life can smooth, For well I know, wherever ye reside, There harmony, and peace, and innocence abide.
Page 229 - I sit by the mossy fountain; on the top of the hill of winds. One tree is rustling above me. Dark waves roll over the heath. The lake is troubled below. The deer descend from the hill. No hunter at a distance is seen. It is mid-day: but all is silent.
Page 242 - There oft is heard, at midnight, or at noon, Beginning faint, but rising still more loud, And nearer, voice of hunters, and of hounds, And horns, hoarse winded, blowing far and keen: — Forthwith the hubbub multiplies; the gale Labours with wilder shrieks, and rifer din Of hot pursuit; the broken cry of deer Mangled by throttling dogs; the shouts of men, And hoofs, thick beating on the hollow hill.
Page 243 - Or thither, where beneath the show'ry west The mighty kings of three fair realms are laid : Once foes, perhaps, together now they rest...