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Pagina 10
... esq . Philadelphia . Bradford & Inskeep . THE earliest specimens of English poetry are metrical ro- mances . They are the composition of unlettered bards , and possess the characteristics of untutored genius . They are simple 10 ROKEBY .
... esq . Philadelphia . Bradford & Inskeep . THE earliest specimens of English poetry are metrical ro- mances . They are the composition of unlettered bards , and possess the characteristics of untutored genius . They are simple 10 ROKEBY .
Pagina 11
... genius ; giving birth to a race of writers , who , for originality , boldness , compass of understanding , munificence of fancy , and all the attributes of high intellect , have not been equalled in any age or any nation . The period to ...
... genius ; giving birth to a race of writers , who , for originality , boldness , compass of understanding , munificence of fancy , and all the attributes of high intellect , have not been equalled in any age or any nation . The period to ...
Pagina 12
... genius . Their taste is completely continental ; the British classics , completely insular . Compare Shakspeare with Congreve , Milton with Dryden , Spencer with Pope , and the inquirer will be astonished , that in so short an in ...
... genius . Their taste is completely continental ; the British classics , completely insular . Compare Shakspeare with Congreve , Milton with Dryden , Spencer with Pope , and the inquirer will be astonished , that in so short an in ...
Pagina 13
... genius . The perfection of that great mas- ter , probably , generated despair , and left to his successors no- thing but the power of imitation , or a false refinement : and a species of fantastic foppery is the refinement of the ...
... genius . The perfection of that great mas- ter , probably , generated despair , and left to his successors no- thing but the power of imitation , or a false refinement : and a species of fantastic foppery is the refinement of the ...
Pagina 14
... genius and feeling ; and he will discover , probably too late , that to acquire popularity with an audience , accustomed to the tenseness and narrowness of the European dress , it will be necessary for him to girdle up the robes of his ...
... genius and feeling ; and he will discover , probably too late , that to acquire popularity with an audience , accustomed to the tenseness and narrowness of the European dress , it will be necessary for him to girdle up the robes of his ...
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Pagina 179 - And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
Pagina 174 - There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: and there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
Pagina 164 - I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.
Pagina 174 - For behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
Pagina 647 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress...
Pagina 33 - The tear down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dewdrop on the rose ; When next the summer breeze comes by, And waves the bush, the flower is dry.
Pagina 163 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Pagina 516 - Tis she ; — but why that bleeding bosom gor'd, Why dimly gleams the visionary sword ! Oh, ever beauteous, ever friendly ! tell, Is it, in heaven, a crime to love too well ? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part ? Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think, or bravely die...
Pagina 60 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Pagina 383 - ... for these reasons it has been my ardent wish to see a plan devised, on a liberal scale, which would have a tendency to spread systematic ideas through all parts of this rising empire, thereby to do away local attachments and State prejudices, as far as the nature of things would, or indeed ought to admit, from our national councils.