Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin: Chiefly During His Residence in Lichfield, with Anecdotes of His Friends, and Criticisms on His WritingsAt the Classic Press, for W. Poyntell & Company, 1804 - 313 pagini |
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... shining qualities in one glaring mass * . " Every man has his errors , and the errors of public characters are too well known not to expose un- founded eulogium to the distaste of all who prefer truth to enthusiasm . They are conscious ...
... shining qualities in one glaring mass * . " Every man has his errors , and the errors of public characters are too well known not to expose un- founded eulogium to the distaste of all who prefer truth to enthusiasm . They are conscious ...
Pagina 77
... shining lake ! whose silver wave reflects Of Nature's fairest forms , the form most fair ; Groves , where at noon the sleeping Beauty lies ; Lawns , where at eve her graceful footsteps rove ; full oft have heard my secret sighs , For ye ...
... shining lake ! whose silver wave reflects Of Nature's fairest forms , the form most fair ; Groves , where at noon the sleeping Beauty lies ; Lawns , where at eve her graceful footsteps rove ; full oft have heard my secret sighs , For ye ...
Pagina 87
... shining East their mazy way ! Here dusky alders , leaning from the cliff , Dip their long arms , and wave their branches wide ; There , as the loose rocks thwart my bounding skiff , White moonbeams tremble on the foaming tide . Pass on ...
... shining East their mazy way ! Here dusky alders , leaning from the cliff , Dip their long arms , and wave their branches wide ; There , as the loose rocks thwart my bounding skiff , White moonbeams tremble on the foaming tide . Pass on ...
Pagina 127
... shining without either warmth or useful light , in the dark and lonely hours . BOTANIC GARDEN . And now the rising moon , with lustre pale , O'er heaven's dark arch unfurls her milky veil . This picture is charming : yet when Milton ...
... shining without either warmth or useful light , in the dark and lonely hours . BOTANIC GARDEN . And now the rising moon , with lustre pale , O'er heaven's dark arch unfurls her milky veil . This picture is charming : yet when Milton ...
Pagina 133
... shining bosoms to the ray , Nymphs , with sweet smile , each opening flower invite , And on its damask eyelids pour the light ! On reflection , it should seem that it is the si- tuation of these twin accents in the line , which pre ...
... shining bosoms to the ray , Nymphs , with sweet smile , each opening flower invite , And on its damask eyelids pour the light ! On reflection , it should seem that it is the si- tuation of these twin accents in the line , which pre ...
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Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin: Chiefly During His Residence in Lichfield ... Anna Seward Vizualizare completă - 1804 |
Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin: Chiefly During His Residence at Lichfield ... Anna Seward Vizualizare completă - 1804 |
Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin: Chiefly During His Residence in Lichfield ... Anna Seward Vizualizare completă - 1804 |
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Pagina 219 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Pagina 310 - There's no prerogative in human hours. In human hearts what bolder thought can rise Than man's presumption on to-morrow's dawn? Where is to-morrow? In another world. For numbers this is certain; the reverse Is sure to none...
Pagina 220 - And not for justice ? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers, shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honours For so much trash as may be grasped thus?
Pagina 177 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Pagina 34 - For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone, By his permissive will, through heaven and earth : And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems...
Pagina 113 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was...
Pagina 221 - Sleep no more ! ' to all the house : ' Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor Shall sleep no more ; Macbeth shall sleep no more.
Pagina 252 - E'en now, e'en now, on yonder Western shores Weeps pale Despair, and writhing Anguish roars : E'en now in Afric's groves with hideous yell Fierce Slavery stalks, and slips the dogs of hell ; From vale to vale the gathering cries rebound, And sable nations tremble at the sound ! — . YE BANDS OF SENATORS!
Pagina 198 - ... orbs encroach ; Flowers of the sky ! ye too to age must yield, Frail as your silken sisters of the field ! Star after star from Heaven's high arch shall rush, Suns sink on Suns, and systems systems crush, Headlong, extinct, to one dark centre fall, And Death, and Night, and Chaos mingle all ! Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal NATURE lifts her changeful form, Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And soars and shines, another and the same.
Pagina 43 - It was a platform, with a seat fixed upon a very high pair of wheefs, and supported in the front, upon the back of the horse, by means of a kind of proboscis, which, forming an arch, reached over the hind quarters of the horse, and passed through a ring, placed on an upright piece of iron, which worked in a socket, fixed in the saddle. The...