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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... Taste , Difference between Taste and Genius , 191 On Sublimity , • 192 DR GEORGE CAMPBELL , 192 MISCELLANEOUS WRITERS . 192 OLIVER GOLDSMITH , 192 DR SAMUEL JOHNSON , LORD LYTTELTON , 192 From the Preface to the Dictionary , DR THOMAS ...
... Taste , Difference between Taste and Genius , 191 On Sublimity , • 192 DR GEORGE CAMPBELL , 192 MISCELLANEOUS WRITERS . 192 OLIVER GOLDSMITH , 192 DR SAMUEL JOHNSON , LORD LYTTELTON , 192 From the Preface to the Dictionary , DR THOMAS ...
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... taste and genius , in a strain of melodious and original blank verse . Goldsmith blended mora- lity and philosophy with a beautiful simplicity of expression and numbers , pathetic imagery , and natural description . Beattie portrayed ...
... taste and genius , in a strain of melodious and original blank verse . Goldsmith blended mora- lity and philosophy with a beautiful simplicity of expression and numbers , pathetic imagery , and natural description . Beattie portrayed ...
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... taste and melody does he characterise the changes and varied appearances of creation- Look nature through , ' tis revolution all ; All change , no death ; day follows night , and night The dying day ; stars rise and set , and set and ...
... taste and melody does he characterise the changes and varied appearances of creation- Look nature through , ' tis revolution all ; All change , no death ; day follows night , and night The dying day ; stars rise and set , and set and ...
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... taste , And eat their way to fame ! with anxious thought The salmon is refused , the turbot bought . Impatient Art rebukes the sun's delay , And bids December yield the fruits of May . Their various cares in one great point combine The ...
... taste , And eat their way to fame ! with anxious thought The salmon is refused , the turbot bought . Impatient Art rebukes the sun's delay , And bids December yield the fruits of May . Their various cares in one great point combine The ...
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... taste . The natural fervour of the man overpowered the rules of the scholar . The first edition of the Seasons ' differs materially from the second , and the second still more from the third . Every alteration was an improvement in ...
... taste . The natural fervour of the man overpowered the rules of the scholar . The first edition of the Seasons ' differs materially from the second , and the second still more from the third . Every alteration was an improvement in ...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Том 2 Robert Chambers Повний перегляд - 1856 |
Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Том 2 Robert Chambers Повний перегляд - 1867 |
Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Том 2 Robert Chambers Повний перегляд - 1870 |
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ancient appeared beauty beneath blank verse breast breath bright character charms cheerful clouds Colonsay dark dear death deep delight Dr Johnson earth England fair fame fancy father fear feel flowers genius grace green hand happy hear heard heart heaven hill honour hope Horace Walpole hour human king labour Lady light live look Lord Lord Byron Lord Chatham mind moral morning mountains mournful muse native nature never night o'er Ossian pain passion peace pleasure poem poet poetical poetry praise pride published racter rill Rodmond round scene Scotland seems shade sigh Sir Walter Scott smile soft song sorrow soul sound spirit stream style sweet taste tears tender thee thou thought tion Tom Jones Twas uncle Toby vale verse virtue voice wave wild wind wonder young youth
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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