The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays, Volumen1Nathan Drake Suttaby, Evance, and Company, 1811 |
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... kind as he doth in the others , he confounds two or three charac ters . It is not the muse , the lover , the swain , or the god , but Bavius at hard labour in his study . A nice and subtle judgment in poetry hath , in all polite nations ...
... kind as he doth in the others , he confounds two or three charac ters . It is not the muse , the lover , the swain , or the god , but Bavius at hard labour in his study . A nice and subtle judgment in poetry hath , in all polite nations ...
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... kind in the choice of the most exquisite and elegant satisfaction . It is yet further an en- couragement to men of fine spirits and beautiful imaginations , to have their works exhibited advantageously to the world , and rescued from ...
... kind in the choice of the most exquisite and elegant satisfaction . It is yet further an en- couragement to men of fine spirits and beautiful imaginations , to have their works exhibited advantageously to the world , and rescued from ...
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... kind within the circle of his acquaintance ; and , for my own part , I know too many , to be un concerned at the growth of a folly , which creates so much uneasiness in the soul , and fills it with legions of foreign fears which have no ...
... kind within the circle of his acquaintance ; and , for my own part , I know too many , to be un concerned at the growth of a folly , which creates so much uneasiness in the soul , and fills it with legions of foreign fears which have no ...
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... kind , which excite equal admira- tion and pleasure . With what wonderful success has nature painted all the scenes of this theatre , the world ! How masterly are her designs , how strong and bold her draughts , how delicate her touches ...
... kind , which excite equal admira- tion and pleasure . With what wonderful success has nature painted all the scenes of this theatre , the world ! How masterly are her designs , how strong and bold her draughts , how delicate her touches ...
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... kind of Painting and Poetry , there is but one principal agent , and but one chief action , to which all the other real or imaginary characters in a regular subordination must be referred . If this relation and connection of the ...
... kind of Painting and Poetry , there is but one principal agent , and but one chief action , to which all the other real or imaginary characters in a regular subordination must be referred . If this relation and connection of the ...
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Página 254 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Página 52 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Página 55 - With quicken'd step, Brown night retires. Young day pours in apace, And opens all the lawny prospect wide. The dripping rock, the mountain's misty top, Swell on the sight, and brighten with the dawn.
Página 139 - Enlarge my life with multitude of days ! In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays: Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy...
Página 124 - All those things are passed away like a shadow, and as a host that hasted by; and as a ship that passeth over the waves of the water, which, when it is gone by,, the trace thereof cannot be found, neither the pathway of the keel in the waves...
Página 5 - ... for the supports of his body were easily attained, but the eager longings for seeing again the face of man, during the interval of craving bodily appetites, were hardly supportable. He grew dejected, languid, and melancholy, scarce able to refrain from doing himself violence, till by degrees, by the force of reason and frequent reading of the scriptures, and turning his thoughts upon the study of navigation, after the space of eighteen months, he grew thoroughly reconciled to his Condition.
Página 55 - Young day pours in apace, And opens all the lawny prospect wide. The dripping rock, the mountain's misty top, Swell on the sight, and brighten with the dawn. Blue...
Página 322 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes: 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown ; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and...
Página 177 - Twill trickle to his rival's bier ; O'er Pur's the mournful requiem sound, And Fox's shall the notes rebound. The solemn echo seems to cry, — " Here let their discord with them die...
Página 38 - The tuneful page with speaking picture charm. What to the ear sublimer rapture brings, That strain alone the genuine Poet sings ; That form alone where glows peculiar grace, The genuine Painter condescends to trace : 10 No sordid theme will verse or paint admit, Unworthy colours, if unworthy wit.