Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British Authors from the Earliest to the Present Times, Том 2Chambers, 1844 |
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... poet scope for dark and powerful paint- ing , and was made the vehicle for bursts of indig- nant virtue , sorrow , regret , and admonition . This artificial character pervades the whole poem , and is essentially a part of its structure ...
... poet scope for dark and powerful paint- ing , and was made the vehicle for bursts of indig- nant virtue , sorrow , regret , and admonition . This artificial character pervades the whole poem , and is essentially a part of its structure ...
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... poet with whom some of our best and purest associations are indissolubly joined . In the Seasons the Cheviots . Here the young poet spent his boyish years . The gift of poesy came early , and some lines written by him at the age of ...
... poet with whom some of our best and purest associations are indissolubly joined . In the Seasons the Cheviots . Here the young poet spent his boyish years . The gift of poesy came early , and some lines written by him at the age of ...
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... poet had origi- nally introduced three damsels ! Of propriety of language consequent on these corrections , we may cite an example in a line from the episode of La- ing chancellor bestowed the situation on another , Thomson not having ...
... poet had origi- nally introduced three damsels ! Of propriety of language consequent on these corrections , we may cite an example in a line from the episode of La- ing chancellor bestowed the situation on another , Thomson not having ...
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... poet is concerned , the last corrected edition is a new work . The power of Thomson , however , lay not in his art , but in the exuberance of his genius , which sometimes required to be dis- ciplined and controlled . The poetic glow is ...
... poet is concerned , the last corrected edition is a new work . The power of Thomson , however , lay not in his art , but in the exuberance of his genius , which sometimes required to be dis- ciplined and controlled . The poetic glow is ...
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... poet , was a native of Wales , being born at Aberglasslyn , Car- marthenshire , in 1700. His father was a solicitor , and intended his son for the same profession . The latter , however , had a taste for the fine arts , and rambled over ...
... poet , was a native of Wales , being born at Aberglasslyn , Car- marthenshire , in 1700. His father was a solicitor , and intended his son for the same profession . The latter , however , had a taste for the fine arts , and rambled over ...
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Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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
Сторінка 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
Сторінка 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
Сторінка 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
Сторінка 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
Сторінка 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
Сторінка 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