Essays on English writers, by the author of 'The gentle life'. |
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... wonder that any relic of pagan mythology could have lasted so long . We can- not with patience entertain the idea of a river being married , attended by its friends . But we must re- member the fashion of the times , the imagery of the ...
... wonder that any relic of pagan mythology could have lasted so long . We can- not with patience entertain the idea of a river being married , attended by its friends . But we must re- member the fashion of the times , the imagery of the ...
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... wonder ! Whom certain these rough shades did never breed , Unless the goddess that in rural shrine Dwell'st here with Pan or Sylvan , by blest song Forbidding every bleak unkindly fog To touch the prosperous growth of this tall wood ...
... wonder ! Whom certain these rough shades did never breed , Unless the goddess that in rural shrine Dwell'st here with Pan or Sylvan , by blest song Forbidding every bleak unkindly fog To touch the prosperous growth of this tall wood ...
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... wonder if we find " Chitchat " in 1716 , the " London Journal " in 1726 , “ Town Talk " in 1714 , the " Reader " in the same year , the " Club - Lounger in 1785 , and " Hours of Leisure " ( Leisure Hour ) in 1806 ? We have had " Quiz ...
... wonder if we find " Chitchat " in 1716 , the " London Journal " in 1726 , “ Town Talk " in 1714 , the " Reader " in the same year , the " Club - Lounger in 1785 , and " Hours of Leisure " ( Leisure Hour ) in 1806 ? We have had " Quiz ...
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... wonder of the world . There is in them a depth of wisdom , with glimpses of learning , void of the parade and ostentation characteristic of the schools , contin- ually accompanied by the profoundest thought that ever proceeded from the ...
... wonder of the world . There is in them a depth of wisdom , with glimpses of learning , void of the parade and ostentation characteristic of the schools , contin- ually accompanied by the profoundest thought that ever proceeded from the ...
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... wonder , as did the hinds in Goldsmith's poem at the village schoolmaster : - And still they gazed , and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew . And this wonder is continually increasing . Some have been so ...
... wonder , as did the hinds in Goldsmith's poem at the village schoolmaster : - And still they gazed , and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew . And this wonder is continually increasing . Some have been so ...
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Essays on English Writers, by the Author of the Gentle Life James Hain Friswell Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
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Seite 94 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Seite 57 - To daily fraud, contempt, abuse, and wrong, Within doors or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own ; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day 1 O first-created Beam, and thou great Word, " Let there be light, and light was over all...
Seite 157 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
Seite 47 - Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows ; And when we meet at any time again Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.
Seite 261 - This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not.
Seite 59 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them and go no further ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Seite 241 - Ah! Then, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw, and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile Amid a world how different from this!
Seite 57 - To live a life half dead, a living death, And buried; but, O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave...
Seite 242 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be ; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me...
Seite 94 - I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him...