The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays, Volumen4Nathan Drake Suttaby, Evance, and Company, 1811 |
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... ancient splendour . The size of the spaces , which were now empty , testified sufficiently of what value it had been ; and this was still more strongly confirmed by the two stones which were now left . The artist , who was no stranger ...
... ancient splendour . The size of the spaces , which were now empty , testified sufficiently of what value it had been ; and this was still more strongly confirmed by the two stones which were now left . The artist , who was no stranger ...
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... ancient , and now in a great measure obsolete , songs and bal- lads of every nation , that we are to search for genuine models of the truly simple and pathetic pastoral poetry . Something of this practice still , I 68 NO . 149 . THE ...
... ancient , and now in a great measure obsolete , songs and bal- lads of every nation , that we are to search for genuine models of the truly simple and pathetic pastoral poetry . Something of this practice still , I 68 NO . 149 . THE ...
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... ancients ? You cannot read two lines of Gawen Douglas , without seeing , that his affec- tation of Greek and Latin words was extreme ; and his allusions to classical ideas are infinite . The names of almost every object he has occa ...
... ancients ? You cannot read two lines of Gawen Douglas , without seeing , that his affec- tation of Greek and Latin words was extreme ; and his allusions to classical ideas are infinite . The names of almost every object he has occa ...
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... more attended to by the ancients , the last by the moderns . Herodotus was the first of historians ; and , therefore , little acquaintance with political es- • tablishments is to be expected in his works : he NO . 150 . 79 THE GLEANER .
... more attended to by the ancients , the last by the moderns . Herodotus was the first of historians ; and , therefore , little acquaintance with political es- • tablishments is to be expected in his works : he NO . 150 . 79 THE GLEANER .
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... ancient or modern , ever boasted a more brilliant groupe of classi- cal authors than it does at the present period . The works of Robertson , Hume , Dalrymple , Henry , Gillies , Ferguson , Watson , Thomson , Guthrie , Stewart ...
... ancient or modern , ever boasted a more brilliant groupe of classi- cal authors than it does at the present period . The works of Robertson , Hume , Dalrymple , Henry , Gillies , Ferguson , Watson , Thomson , Guthrie , Stewart ...
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Página 245 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up...
Página 417 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling Nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
Página 259 - With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light: There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear, As may with sweetness through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes.
Página 351 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...
Página 432 - He that can take the stage at one time for the palace of the Ptolemies, may take it in half an hour for the promontory of Actium.
Página 259 - But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embow-ed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Página 247 - Peace to his soul, if God's good pleasure be ! — Lord cardinal, if thou think'st on heaven's bliss, Hold up thy hand, make signal of thy hope. — He dies, and makes no sign : O God, forgive him ! War.
Página 245 - Not to a rage: patience and sorrow strove Who should express her goodliest. You have seen Sunshine and rain at once: her smiles and tears Were like a better way: those happy smilets That play'd on her ripe lip seem'd not to know What guests were in her eyes; which parted thence As pearls from diamonds dropp'd.
Página 228 - From that time, like everything else which falls into the hands of the Mussulman, it has been going to ruin, and the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope gave the deathblow to its commercial greatness.
Página 418 - Give me another horse! bind up my wounds! Have mercy, Jesu! Soft! I did but dream. O! coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me. The lights burn blue. It is now dead midnight. Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh.