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... poet or painter , and nobody should pretend to describe , who does not look through the op- tics of either painter or poet . Be- sides , my ignorance circumscribes my curiosity . I have few objects of remembrance with which to com- pare ...
... poet or painter , and nobody should pretend to describe , who does not look through the op- tics of either painter or poet . Be- sides , my ignorance circumscribes my curiosity . I have few objects of remembrance with which to com- pare ...
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... poets who were not the prophets of the Lord . His erudition was vast , but his genius was vaster . His learning did not restrain , but re- gulated his flight . Amidst the glo- ries of heaven he looked undazzled , and rays from his ...
... poets who were not the prophets of the Lord . His erudition was vast , but his genius was vaster . His learning did not restrain , but re- gulated his flight . Amidst the glo- ries of heaven he looked undazzled , and rays from his ...
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... poet . I have however admired the conception of Dryden , who , when he thought of writing an epic poem in honour of King Ar- , thur , determined to introduce an- gels as the guardians of nations . It was the lot of Arthur and the guar ...
... poet . I have however admired the conception of Dryden , who , when he thought of writing an epic poem in honour of King Ar- , thur , determined to introduce an- gels as the guardians of nations . It was the lot of Arthur and the guar ...
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... poets as can be conceived . The Jerusalem Delivered stands next in dignity , in this respect , to Paradise Lost . The machinery of Gothic superstition is vastly more pleasing to me when embodied by poetry , than Homer's Gods . In the ...
... poets as can be conceived . The Jerusalem Delivered stands next in dignity , in this respect , to Paradise Lost . The machinery of Gothic superstition is vastly more pleasing to me when embodied by poetry , than Homer's Gods . In the ...
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... poet ; and indeed , the highest exhi- liration , the most elevated inven- tive agitation of every poet of the first order , is on the borders of phrenzy . The soul of Pope was never tossed by these tumultuous sensations .... he is an ...
... poet ; and indeed , the highest exhi- liration , the most elevated inven- tive agitation of every poet of the first order , is on the borders of phrenzy . The soul of Pope was never tossed by these tumultuous sensations .... he is an ...
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Side 17 - That never will in other climate grow, My early visitation, and my last At even, which I bred up with tender hand From the first opening bud, and gave ye names ! Who now shall rear ye to the sun, or rank Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount ? Thee lastly, nuptial bower, by me...
Side 418 - In wild excess the vulgar breast takes fire, Till, buried in debauch, the bliss expire. But not their joys alone thus coarsely flow — Their morals, like their pleasures, are but low ; For, as refinement stops, from sire to son, Unalter'd, unimprov'd, the manners run — And love's and friendship's finely pointed dart Fall blunted from each indurated heart.
Side 173 - He met her, and in secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove, While yet there was no fear of Jove. Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of cypress lawn Over thy decent shoulders drawn.
Side 175 - There, held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad leaden downward cast Thou fix them on the earth as fast: And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet, And hears the Muses in a ring Ay round about Jove's altar sing; And add to these retired Leisure That in trim gardens takes his pleasure...
Side 261 - Devotion alone should have stopped me, to join in the duties of the congregation; but I must confess that curiosity to hear the preacher of such a wilderness was not the least of my motives.
Side 263 - Socrates died like a philosopher" — then pausing, raising his other hand, pressing them both clasped together, with warmth and energy to his breast, lifting his " sightless balls" to heaven, and pouring his whole soul into his tremulous voice — " but Jesus Christ — like a God...
Side 263 - ... of portentous, death-like silence which reigned throughout the house; the preacher, removing his white handkerchief from his aged face, (even yet wet from the recent torrent of his tears,) and slowly stretching forth the palsied hand which holds it, begins the sentence, " Socrates died like a philosopher...
Side 174 - But hail, thou goddess sage and holy! Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view...
Side 139 - For the benefit of his Latin readers, his genius submitted to teach the first elements of the arts and sciences of Greece. The geometry of Euclid, the music of Pythagoras, the arithmetic of Nicomachus, the mechanics of Archimedes, the astronomy of Ptolemy, the theology of Plato, and the logic of Aristotle, with the commentary of Porphyry, were translated and illustrated by the indefatigable pen of the Roman senator.
Side 138 - Cousin, dejection of spirits, which I suppose may have prevented many a man from becoming an Author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary, and therefore take care to be constantly employed. Manual occupations do not engage the mind sufficiently, as I know by experience, having tried many. But composition, especially of verse, absorbs it wholly. I write therefore generally three hours in a morning, and in an evening I transcribe. I read also, but less than I write, for I must have bodily...