An Essay on the Application of Natural History to PoetryW. Eyres, 1777 - 156 стор. |
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... - tions of many ingenious writers . But its application to the improve- ment of poetry , has not , I believe , been the fubject of particular dif- cuffion . cuffion . By considering it in this view , I iv DEDICATION .
... - tions of many ingenious writers . But its application to the improve- ment of poetry , has not , I believe , been the fubject of particular dif- cuffion . cuffion . By considering it in this view , I iv DEDICATION .
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... writers fufficiently evinces what I meant to deduce from it , a real want of variety in poetical imagery , proceeding from a scarcity of original obfervations of na- 910 ture . THE want of variety and novelty is not , however , the only ...
... writers fufficiently evinces what I meant to deduce from it , a real want of variety in poetical imagery , proceeding from a scarcity of original obfervations of na- 910 ture . THE want of variety and novelty is not , however , the only ...
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... writer of inferior rank , nothing T would be easier than to multiply in : 1 ftances of them . I fhall , however , con fine myself to a few , which , that they may carry more weight , fhall be drawn from refpectable fources . 1 THE ...
... writer of inferior rank , nothing T would be easier than to multiply in : 1 ftances of them . I fhall , however , con fine myself to a few , which , that they may carry more weight , fhall be drawn from refpectable fources . 1 THE ...
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... writer intended . Thus , the behemoth is by fome fuppofed to be the elephant , by others the hip- popotamus . The reem , abfurdly in our verfion rendered the unicorn , is vari- ously interpreted the rhinoceros , urus , oryx , and bison ...
... writer intended . Thus , the behemoth is by fome fuppofed to be the elephant , by others the hip- popotamus . The reem , abfurdly in our verfion rendered the unicorn , is vari- ously interpreted the rhinoceros , urus , oryx , and bison ...
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... writers , from the peculiar caft of their genius , and an exuberance of that fire which conftitutes the very effence ... writer , in a paffage hereafter to be quoted , defcribes with admirable truth and and nature thofe prefages of an im ...
... writers , from the peculiar caft of their genius , and an exuberance of that fire which conftitutes the very effence ... writer , in a paffage hereafter to be quoted , defcribes with admirable truth and and nature thofe prefages of an im ...
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Сторінка 109 - Fair laughs the Morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes: Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm: Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That hush'd in grim repose expects his evening prey.
Сторінка 68 - Kilda's* shore ; whose lonely race Resign the setting sun to Indian worlds, The royal eagle draws his vigorous young, Strong-pounc'd, and ardent with paternal fire ^ Now fit to raise a kingdom of their own, He drives them from his fort, the towering seat, For ages, of his empire ; which, in peace, Unstain'd he holds, while many a league to sea He wings his course, and preys in distant isles.
Сторінка 50 - In jointed armour watch : on smooth the seal And bended dolphins play ; part, huge of bulk, Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, Tempest the ocean : there Leviathan, Hugest of living creatures, on the deep Stretch'd like a promontory, sleeps or swims, And seems a moving land, and at his gills Draws in, and at his trunk spouts out a sea.
Сторінка 62 - Philomela deigns To let them joy, and purposes, in thought Elate, to make her night excel their day. The blackbird whistles from the thorny brake; The mellow bullfinch answers from the grove; Nor are the linnets, o'er the flowering furze Pour'd out profusely, silent.
Сторінка 146 - Bear me, Pomona ! to thy citron groves ; To where the lemon and the piercing lime, With the deep orange, glowing through the green, Their lighter glories blend.
Сторінка 66 - Intent. And often, from the careless back Of herds and flocks, a thousand tugging bills Pluck hair and wool ; and oft, when...
Сторінка 131 - Atlantic surge Pours in among the stormy Hebrides; Who can recount what transmigrations there Are annual made? what nations come and go? And how the living clouds on clouds arise? Infinite wings ! till all the plume-dark air And rude resounding shore are one wild cry.
Сторінка 66 - Commit their feeble offspring : the cleft tree Offers its kind concealment to a few, Their food its infefts, and its mofs their nefts. Others apart far in the grafTy dale, Or roughening wafte, their humble texture weave.
Сторінка 70 - The careful hen Calls all her chirping family around, Fed and defended by the fearless cock; Whose breast with ardour flames, as on he walks, Graceful, and crows defiance.
Сторінка 51 - In common, rang'd in figure wedge their way, Intelligent of feafons, and fet forth Their aery caravan high over feas Flying, and over lands with mutual wing...