The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays, Volumen1Nathan Drake Suttaby, Evance, and Company, 1811 |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 42
Página iii
... proper arrangement , their merits , now lost and buried in the surrounding crude mass of materials , might be rendered con- spicuous , and the tribute of applause , due to their respective authors , be at length adequately apportioned ...
... proper arrangement , their merits , now lost and buried in the surrounding crude mass of materials , might be rendered con- spicuous , and the tribute of applause , due to their respective authors , be at length adequately apportioned ...
Página 46
... proper sentiments in the speeches of a prince , a general , or a counsellor , is more remotę , and discerned by a kind of se- cond thought or reflection . As descriptions are all drawn from objects of the senses , and the likeness or ...
... proper sentiments in the speeches of a prince , a general , or a counsellor , is more remotę , and discerned by a kind of se- cond thought or reflection . As descriptions are all drawn from objects of the senses , and the likeness or ...
Página 51
... proper to the season are represented , and afford a yet greater diver- sity of amusing images . Such is that admir- able description in Otway's Orphan : the plains Wish'd Morning's come ; and now upon And distant mountains , where they ...
... proper to the season are represented , and afford a yet greater diver- sity of amusing images . Such is that admir- able description in Otway's Orphan : the plains Wish'd Morning's come ; and now upon And distant mountains , where they ...
Página 63
... proper to give them fair play , and out at his porch in a public manner , his court of clients pressed about his chair . Some signa- lized their zeal in keeping off the crowd ; others distinguished themselves by endeavouring to get as ...
... proper to give them fair play , and out at his porch in a public manner , his court of clients pressed about his chair . Some signa- lized their zeal in keeping off the crowd ; others distinguished themselves by endeavouring to get as ...
Página 86
... proper remarks , in about four pages concludes . Now , had Hippocrates been to relate this case , we had never been entertained with the episode of the chamber- fellow's being sent to the Compter ; the many useful remarks and cautions ...
... proper remarks , in about four pages concludes . Now , had Hippocrates been to relate this case , we had never been entertained with the episode of the chamber- fellow's being sent to the Compter ; the many useful remarks and cautions ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
admirable Æneid Alibez ancient appeared Aristotle beauty behold body BOSCAWEN Braminto brother countenance court daugh desire Didius Julianus discovered Divine dress ears endeavour entertained epic poetry eyes fairy fancy father favour fear Florio FREE-THINKER gentleman give hand happy heaven Homer honour human imagination Jupiter kicking kind king King Henry's chapel kingdom labour ladies late learning Leonidas liberty likewise lived look lover LUCRETIUS mandarine manner marriage ment mind morning nature never o'er objects observed pain passed passion Persia person petrifaction pleased pleasure poem poetry poets prince proper prove Pulcheria queen readers reason riches Romans scene seemed sense sensible shew sight soon soul spleen Texel thing thought tion took true turned tutior UNIVERSAL SPECTATOR verger Virgil virtue whole wife wish woman writing young youth
Pasajes populares
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.