Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry: With Remarks, Volum 1T. Cadell, 1787 - 198 pàgines |
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Pàgina xiv
... herself by arriving at a degree of com- parative perfection , with lefs gradual and adventitious af- fiftance . * * nec longum tempus et ingens , Exiit ad cœlum ramis felicibus arbos . ” Though ages have elapfed fince the birth of Homer ...
... herself by arriving at a degree of com- parative perfection , with lefs gradual and adventitious af- fiftance . * * nec longum tempus et ingens , Exiit ad cœlum ramis felicibus arbos . ” Though ages have elapfed fince the birth of Homer ...
Pàgina xxxi
... herself recovered the long - loft ver- dure of her bays ; whilst the juftice of that latitude which is commonly affigned to later improvements , from a fair oppor tunity of a comparative examination , might have been more ftrictly ...
... herself recovered the long - loft ver- dure of her bays ; whilst the juftice of that latitude which is commonly affigned to later improvements , from a fair oppor tunity of a comparative examination , might have been more ftrictly ...
Pàgina xliv
... herself at Appleby Castle in Cum- berland , had a fmall portrait of Daniel inferted . I cannot con- clude this sketch without fubmitting to my reader the following lines from his dedication to the tragedy of Philotas , as they feem to ...
... herself at Appleby Castle in Cum- berland , had a fmall portrait of Daniel inferted . I cannot con- clude this sketch without fubmitting to my reader the following lines from his dedication to the tragedy of Philotas , as they feem to ...
Pàgina 16
... herself as next in order fet , With trembling limbs we foftly parted thence , Till in our eyes an other fight we met : When from my heart a figh forthwith I fet , Ruing alas upon the wofull plight Of Miserie , that next appear'd in ...
... herself as next in order fet , With trembling limbs we foftly parted thence , Till in our eyes an other fight we met : When from my heart a figh forthwith I fet , Ruing alas upon the wofull plight Of Miserie , that next appear'd in ...
Pàgina 61
... Herself awhile she lays afide , and makes Ready to perfonate a mortal part . Jofeph , the King's dead Brother's shape she takes , What he by Nature was , is fhe by Art . She comes to th ' King , and with her cold hand flakes His fpirits ...
... Herself awhile she lays afide , and makes Ready to perfonate a mortal part . Jofeph , the King's dead Brother's shape she takes , What he by Nature was , is fhe by Art . She comes to th ' King , and with her cold hand flakes His fpirits ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 16 - For on his carcase raiment had he none, Save clouts and patches pieced one by one; With staff in hand, and scrip on shoulders cast, His chief defence against the winter's blast.
Pàgina 17 - By him lay heavy Sleep, the cousin of Death, Flat on the ground and still as any stone, A very corpse, save yielding forth a breath. Small keep took he whom Fortune frowned on Or whom she lifted up into the throne Of high renown; but as a living death, So, dead alive, of life he drew the breath.
Pàgina xl - King himself some years, before he could obtain to be Sewer to the King; and when the King conferred that place upon him, it was not without the regret even of the whole Scotch nation which united themselves in recommending another gentleman...
Pàgina 51 - How bright a dawn of angels with new light Amaz'd the midnight world, and made a day Of which the morning knew not...
Pàgina 19 - I ne mought refrain From tears to see how she her arms could tear, And with her teeth gnash on the bones in vain, When all for nought she fain would so sustain Her...
Pàgina xlix - Fairies were equally out of credit, when MILTON wrote. He did well therefore to fupply their room with Angels and Devils.
Pàgina 56 - Earth, whate'er dost boast, A borrowed being, make thy bold defence. Come thy Creator too, what though it cost Me yet a second fall? we'd try our strengths. Heav'n saw us struggle once, as brave a fight Earth now should see, and tremble at the sight.
Pàgina 22 - Troy, Troy, there is no boot but bale; The hugy horse within thy walls is brought; Thy turrets fall, thy knights, that whilom fought In arms amid the field, are slain in bed, Thy gods defiled and all thy honour dead.
Pàgina liii - ... amid such a profusion of images, many are distinguished by a boldness of outline, a majesty of manner, a brilliancy of colouring, a distinctness and propriety of attribute, and an air of life, that we look for in vain in modern productions, and that rival, if not surpass, what we meet with of the kind even in Spenser, from whom our author caught his inspiration.
Pàgina xxxix - AD 1628 he was made Bishop of Oxford; and I have heard that he had an admirable, grave, and venerable aspect. One time as he was confirming, the country people pressing in to see the ceremony, said he, " Bear off, there ! or 1 11 confirm ye with my staff." Another time, being to lay his hand on the head of a man very bald, he turns to his chaplain, and said, " Some dust, Lushington," to keep his hand from slipping.