Poetical Works...: To which are Now Added Inscriptionum Romanarum Delectus, and An Inaugural Speech...together with Memoirs of His Life and Writings; and Notes, Critical and Explanatory, Volume 1University Press, for W. Hanwell and J. Parker, 1802 - English poetry |
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... say that " the poem was written by Mason from its ftyle ? " Juft ( he answered ) as a hatter " would tell you who made that hat . " 66 The opinion , thus delivered and supported , by fome means came to the knowledge of Ma- son ; who ...
... say that " the poem was written by Mason from its ftyle ? " Juft ( he answered ) as a hatter " would tell you who made that hat . " 66 The opinion , thus delivered and supported , by fome means came to the knowledge of Ma- son ; who ...
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... say more on this trivial subject would betray a folicitude on my part very foreign from my prefent feelings or inclination . My eafy and independent circumstances make " fuch a fufpicion fit mighty easy upon me ; " and the Minifter ...
... say more on this trivial subject would betray a folicitude on my part very foreign from my prefent feelings or inclination . My eafy and independent circumstances make " fuch a fufpicion fit mighty easy upon me ; " and the Minifter ...
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... years , has told me , that Mr. Warton would frequently talk to him of the excellence of the two chapters on this fubject in Bentham's " Ely , " adding , that he had much more to say on it , and that he thought [ xxxi ]
... years , has told me , that Mr. Warton would frequently talk to him of the excellence of the two chapters on this fubject in Bentham's " Ely , " adding , that he had much more to say on it , and that he thought [ xxxi ]
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... say on it , and that he thought of com- municating an Hiftory of Ecclefiaftical Archi- tecture in England by himself to the Antiquarian Society , of which he had long been a member , without contributing to it any papers . Mr. Price ...
... say on it , and that he thought of com- municating an Hiftory of Ecclefiaftical Archi- tecture in England by himself to the Antiquarian Society , of which he had long been a member , without contributing to it any papers . Mr. Price ...
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... say " of it in my Hiftory of Gothic Architecture " in England . " Mr. John Warton has indeed in his uncle's writing fome copy - books , containing " Obfer- " vations , critical and hiftorical , & c . " agreeably to the title above ...
... say " of it in my Hiftory of Gothic Architecture " in England . " Mr. John Warton has indeed in his uncle's writing fome copy - books , containing " Obfer- " vations , critical and hiftorical , & c . " agreeably to the title above ...
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Page 127 - And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest melody?
Page 154 - Man's feeble race what ills await ! . Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain, Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train, And Death, sad refuge from the storms of fate ! The fond complaint, my song, disprove, And justify the laws of Jove.
Page 59 - Sudden, the sombrous imagery is fled, Which late my visionary rapture fed: Thy powerful hand has broke the Gothic chain, And brought my bosom back to truth again; To truth, by no peculiar...
Page 92 - Spires the black pine, while through the naked street, Once haunt of tradeful merchants, springs the grass : Here columns heap'd on prostrate columns, torn From their firm base, increase the mouldering mass. Far as the sight can pierce, appear the spoils Of sunk magnificence ! a blended scene Of moles, fanes, arches, domes, and palaces, Where, with his brother Horror, Ruin sits.
Page lviii - Our friend, Dr. Hurd, having long ago desired me in your name to communicate any fragments, or sketches of a design I once had to give a history of English poetry, you may well think me rude or negligent, when you see me hesitating for so many months before I comply with your request, and yet (believe me) few of your friends have been better pleased than I to find this subject (surely neither unentei'taining...
Page 36 - he was one of those divine men who, like a chapel in a palace, remain unprofaned, while all the rest is tyranny, corruption, and folly.
Page 30 - Wept for thee in Helicon, And fome flowers, and fome bays, For thy herfe, to ftrow the ways, Sent thee from the banks of Came, Devoted to thy virtuous name...
Page 44 - Of human offspring, fole propriety In Paradife of all things common elfe. By thee adult'rous luft was...
Page 35 - The oracles are dumb; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving: No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Page 95 - Hail, queen divine! whom, as tradition tells, Once in his evening walk a Druid found, Far in a hollow glade of Mona's woods; And piteous bore with hospitable hand To the close shelter of his oaken bow'r.