An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie, L.L.D...Isaac Riley, 1806 - 559 стор. |
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... known , by his hav- ing found him one day in his favourite glen , employed in writing with a pencil . On enquiring what he was about , and finding that he was employed in the composition of a poem , Mr Garden's curiosity was attracted ...
... known , by his hav- ing found him one day in his favourite glen , employed in writing with a pencil . On enquiring what he was about , and finding that he was employed in the composition of a poem , Mr Garden's curiosity was attracted ...
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... known what was done in his class every day , during a long period of upwards of thirty years . It exhibits , not only the plan of his lectures , but his unwearied diligence in the conduct of them . For he did not content himself , as it ...
... known what was done in his class every day , during a long period of upwards of thirty years . It exhibits , not only the plan of his lectures , but his unwearied diligence in the conduct of them . For he did not content himself , as it ...
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... known , that Milton " Horace , Book II . Ode 10. translated . " Horace , Book III . Ode 13. translated . " The Ten Pastorals of Virgil , translated . Those pieces marked ‡ , were never reprinted ; and the “ Ode to Peace , ” as well as ...
... known , that Milton " Horace , Book II . Ode 10. translated . " Horace , Book III . Ode 13. translated . " The Ten Pastorals of Virgil , translated . Those pieces marked ‡ , were never reprinted ; and the “ Ode to Peace , ” as well as ...
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... known from all others whatsoever , however similar to a superficial eye . Hot- spur and Henry V. are heroes resembling one another , yet very distinct in their characters ; Falstaff , and Pistol , and Bardolph , are buffoons , but each ...
... known from all others whatsoever , however similar to a superficial eye . Hot- spur and Henry V. are heroes resembling one another , yet very distinct in their characters ; Falstaff , and Pistol , and Bardolph , are buffoons , but each ...
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... known . When Macpherson published first his " Fingal , " and afterwards his " Temora , " he exhibited them as being complete and regular epic poems , of very remote antiquity , which had existed in the Highlands and islands of Scotland ...
... known . When Macpherson published first his " Fingal , " and afterwards his " Temora , " he exhibited them as being complete and regular epic poems , of very remote antiquity , which had existed in the Highlands and islands of Scotland ...
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Сторінка 306 - Man that is born of a woman Is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down : He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Сторінка 498 - His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great; and what he did not immediately know he could at least tell where to find.
Сторінка 306 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Сторінка 543 - Oh, how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields ! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields ; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of Heaven, Oh, how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
Сторінка 14 - Thy shades, thy silence, now be mine, Thy charms my only theme ; My haunt the hollow cliff, whose pine Waves o'er the gloomy stream, Whence! the scared owl on pinions grey Breaks from the rustling boughs, And down the lone vale sails away To more profound repose.
Сторінка 191 - Reynolds,, who was the intimate and beloved friend of that great man ; the friend whom he declared to be " the most invulnerable man he knew ; whom, if he should quarrel with him, he should find the most difficulty how to abuse.
Сторінка 351 - True wit is nature to advantage dressed, — What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Сторінка 340 - I know not who will go to heaven if Langton does not. Sir, I could almost say, Sit anima mea cum Langtono.
Сторінка 520 - gainst Passion's threatful blast Let steady Reason urge the struggling oar ; Shot through the dreary gloom, the morn at last Gives to thy longing eye the blissful shore. Forget my frailties, thou art also frail ; Forgive my lapses, for thyself may'st fall ; Nor read, unmoved, my artless tender tale, — I was a friend, O man, to thee, to all.
Сторінка 79 - See the grisly texture grow, ("Tis of human entrails made,) And the weights, that play below, Each a gasping warrior's head. Shafts for shuttles, dipt in gore, Shoot the trembling cords along Sword, that once a Monarch bore, Keep the tissue close and strong.