The Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe: The library. The village. The newspaper. The parish register. The birth of flattery. Reflections. Sir Eustace Grey. The hall of justice. Woman. Miscellaneous poemsJohn Murray, 1834 |
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... soon favoured with a few words from Sir Joshua , who observed , " If I knew how cautious Doctor Johnson was in giving commendation , I should be well satisfied with ' the portion dealt to me in his letter . " the following is a copy ...
... soon favoured with a few words from Sir Joshua , who observed , " If I knew how cautious Doctor Johnson was in giving commendation , I should be well satisfied with ' the portion dealt to me in his letter . " the following is a copy ...
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... soon as I should be able to join with them such other of later date as might not deprive me of the little credit the former had obtained . Long , indeed , has this purpose been procrastinated : and if the duties of a profession , not ...
... soon as I should be able to join with them such other of later date as might not deprive me of the little credit the former had obtained . Long , indeed , has this purpose been procrastinated : and if the duties of a profession , not ...
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... soon have come to a natural death . Somewhat more numerous are those which are overfed with praise , and die in the surfeit . Brisk reputations , indeed , are like bottled two - penny , or pop- they sparkle , are exhaled , and fly ...
... soon have come to a natural death . Somewhat more numerous are those which are overfed with praise , and die in the surfeit . Brisk reputations , indeed , are like bottled two - penny , or pop- they sparkle , are exhaled , and fly ...
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... soon triumphant , and how soon undone ; How slaves , turn'd tyrants , offer crowns to sale , And each fall'n nation's melancholy tale . ( 3 ) ( 1 ) [ " Malheureux sort de l'histoire ! Les spectateurs sont trop peu instruits , et les ...
... soon triumphant , and how soon undone ; How slaves , turn'd tyrants , offer crowns to sale , And each fall'n nation's melancholy tale . ( 3 ) ( 1 ) [ " Malheureux sort de l'histoire ! Les spectateurs sont trop peu instruits , et les ...
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... Soon as reflections in the bosom rise , Light slumbers vanish from the clouded eyes : The tear and smile , that once together rose , Are then divorced ; the head and heart are foes : Enchantment bows to Wisdom's serious plan , And Pain ...
... Soon as reflections in the bosom rise , Light slumbers vanish from the clouded eyes : The tear and smile , that once together rose , Are then divorced ; the head and heart are foes : Enchantment bows to Wisdom's serious plan , And Pain ...
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Aldborough antè appear beauty behold blest boast BONNEL THORNTON bosom brave breast call'd charms command Crabbe dead death delight dread dreams Duke of Rutland E'en evil fair fame fancy fate favour fear feel fled foes Folly gay bride genius gentle GEORGE CRABBE give grace grave grief happy heart honour hope humble kind labour live look look'd Lope de Vega Lord Holland Lord Robert Lord Robert Manners Lord Thurlow Marquess of Granby mind Muse never numbers nymphs o'er pain Parish Parish Register passions peace pleasure poem poet poor praise pride race rage rest round rustic scenes scorn shame sigh sing slave smile soothe sorrow soul spirit swain taste tears thee thine thou thought truth verse vex'd Village virtue woes wretched youth
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Página 35 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Página 47 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.
Página 35 - We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books: since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom...
Página 35 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book : who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Página 37 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Página 42 - And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
Página 47 - It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world. And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is to say, of knowing good by evil.
Página 86 - passing rich with forty pounds a year?" Ah! no, a Shepherd of a different stock, And far unlike him, feeds this little flock; A jovial youth, who thinks his Sunday's task, As much as God or Man can fairly ask; The rest he gives to loves and labours light, To Fields the morning and to Feasts the night; None better...
Página 74 - On Mincio's banks, in Caesar's bounteous reign, If Tityrus found the Golden Age again, Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song? From Truth and Nature shall we widely stray, Where Virgil, not where Fancy, leads the way? Yes, thus the Muses sing of happy swains, Because the Muses never knew their pains: They boast their peasants...
Página 55 - And glory long has made the sages smile; 'Tis something, nothing, words, illusion, wind — • Depending more upon the historian's style, Than on the name a person leaves behind. Troy owes to Homer what whist owes to Hoyle : The present century was growing blind To the great Marlborough's skill in giving knocks, Until his late Life by Archdeacon Coxe.