The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... nights , and the common method of filling the house , are not always the surest marks of judging what encouragement a play meets with : but the generosity of all the persons of a refined taste about town was remarkable on this occasion ...
... nights , and the common method of filling the house , are not always the surest marks of judging what encouragement a play meets with : but the generosity of all the persons of a refined taste about town was remarkable on this occasion ...
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... night . Smith had indeed trusted entirely to his merit , had ensured no band of applauders , nor used any artifice to force success , and found that native excellence was not sufficient for its own support , The play , however , was ...
... night . Smith had indeed trusted entirely to his merit , had ensured no band of applauders , nor used any artifice to force success , and found that native excellence was not sufficient for its own support , The play , however , was ...
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... nights you bore , While rattling coughs his heaving vessels tore ; Much was his pain , but affliction more . your Oh ! had no summons from the noisy gown Call'd thee , unwilling , to the nauseous town , Thy love had o'er the dull ...
... nights you bore , While rattling coughs his heaving vessels tore ; Much was his pain , but affliction more . your Oh ! had no summons from the noisy gown Call'd thee , unwilling , to the nauseous town , Thy love had o'er the dull ...
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... night . He spread the airy Ocean without shores , Where birds are wafted with their feather'd oars . Then sung the bard how the light vapours rise From the warm earth , and cloud the smiling skies : He sung , how some , chill'd in their ...
... night . He spread the airy Ocean without shores , Where birds are wafted with their feather'd oars . Then sung the bard how the light vapours rise From the warm earth , and cloud the smiling skies : He sung , how some , chill'd in their ...
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... night proceeds : then in its annual motion , whence arise the different degrees of heat and cold . The confinement of the Sun between the tropics , not to be accounted for by any philosophical by- pothesis . The difficulties of the same ...
... night proceeds : then in its annual motion , whence arise the different degrees of heat and cold . The confinement of the Sun between the tropics , not to be accounted for by any philosophical by- pothesis . The difficulties of the same ...
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advance assert atheist atoms beams beauteous beauty birth Blackmore bless'd brain bright catenis cause chance charms chyle contrivance convey'd curious Danube design'd display display'd diurnal divine earth endued Epicurus eternal eyes fame fate fix'd flammis flood flow force form'd frame friends give glebe globe grant Greece heat Heaven heavenly Hence hills honour immense labour Lady Jane Grey light liquid air Lucretians Lucretius mighty mind Molineux motion move Nature Nature's Nature's ends ne'er necessity never night o'er orbs pain perfection philosopher plain poem poet pole praise pursue race racter rays reason rise roll scheme seat SIR RICHARD BLACKMORE skies skill Smith solar soul spacious spheres spirits spleen spread spring streams sublime swift tell terrestrial thee things Thou thought tide Tycho Brahe vapours various vast veins vigour vital void waves whence winds wise wonders wondrous
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Page 29 - Revelation was unshaken ; his learning preserved his principles ; he grew first regular, and then pious. His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great ; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find. Such was his amplitude of learning, and such his copiousness of communication, that it may be doubted whether a day now passes in which I have not some advantage from his friendship. At this man's...
Page 66 - Eliza, in silence and darkness: Benevolence was ashamed to favour, and Malice was weary of insulting. Of his four Epic Poems, the first bad such reputation and popularity as enraged the critics; the second was at least known enough to be ridiculed; the two last had neither friends nor enemies.
Page 28 - Of Gilbert Walmsley, thus presented to my mind, let me indulge myself in the remembrance. I knew him very early; he was one of the first friends that literature procured me, and I hope that at least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. He was of an advanced age, and I was only yet a boy; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me.
Page 65 - A new Version of the Psalms of David, fitted to the Tunes used in Churches...
Page 59 - That Blackmore, as he proceeded in this poem, laid his manuscript from time to time before a club of wits with whom he associated; and that every man contributed, as he could, either improvement or correction; so that," said Philips, " there are perhaps no where in the book thirty lines together that now stand as they were originally written.
Page 29 - He had mingled with the gay world, without exemption from its vices or its follies, but had never neglected the cultivation of his mind; his belief of Revelation was unshaken ; his learning preserved his principles ; he grew first regular, and then pious. His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great ; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find. Such was his amplitude of learning, and such...
Page 88 - These subterranean walls, disposed with art, Such strength, and such stability impart, That storms above, and earthquakes under ground, Break not the pillars, nor the work confound. Give to the earth a form orbicular, Let it be...
Page 211 - A stronger body, and a wiser mind, From sorrow free, nor liable to pain; My passions should obey, and reason reign. Nor could my being from my parents flow, Who neither did the parts, or structure know: Did not my mind or body understand, My sex determine, nor my shape command.
Page 248 - Or silver stars cerulean spheres inlaid; Ere yet the eldest child of Time was born, Or verdant pride young Nature did adorn, Thou wast!
Page 12 - Classics; with whom he had carefully compared whatever was worth perusing in the French, Spanish, and Italian (to which languages he was no stranger), and in all the celebrated writers of his own country. But then, according to the curious observation of the late Earl of...