The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays, Volumen1Nathan Drake Suttaby, Evance, and Company, 1811 |
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... less rich in quality , or beautiful in appearance , than the more im- mediate product of the field . To the similitude , indeed , existing between the occupation of gleaning , and that of gathering together the far separated leaves of ...
... less rich in quality , or beautiful in appearance , than the more im- mediate product of the field . To the similitude , indeed , existing between the occupation of gleaning , and that of gathering together the far separated leaves of ...
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... graft it upon , and re- moving the best principle of happiness at the same time with the worst and most fruitful of miseries . Neither can we say that this evil is confined to the under and less polite part of the NO . 3 . 15 THE GLEANER .
... graft it upon , and re- moving the best principle of happiness at the same time with the worst and most fruitful of miseries . Neither can we say that this evil is confined to the under and less polite part of the NO . 3 . 15 THE GLEANER .
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A Series of Periodical Essays Nathan Drake. confined to the under and less polite part of the world ; it has spread from the cottage to the farm , from the farm to the squire's hall ; and , like the imaginary tortures it represents ...
A Series of Periodical Essays Nathan Drake. confined to the under and less polite part of the world ; it has spread from the cottage to the farm , from the farm to the squire's hall ; and , like the imaginary tortures it represents ...
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... less obliged to the great pieces of the painter , who often sits to the poet , while he forms his ideas and , inspired by the lively and passionate figures expressed in colours , translates the painter , and turns the picture into verse ...
... less obliged to the great pieces of the painter , who often sits to the poet , while he forms his ideas and , inspired by the lively and passionate figures expressed in colours , translates the painter , and turns the picture into verse ...
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... less valued by their contemporaries than by posterity . There cannot be a more evident demonstration of this , than the fate of our great Milton , whose poem , which is justly now acknowledged to be the most admirable production of ...
... less valued by their contemporaries than by posterity . There cannot be a more evident demonstration of this , than the fate of our great Milton , whose poem , which is justly now acknowledged to be the most admirable production of ...
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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.