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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Page xxxviii
... particular account transmitted by Warton to Bofwell of Johnson's visit to Oxford , it appears that at this time a confiderable de- gree of intimacy fubfifted between these two celebrated men . There is fome reafon to fuf- pect that this ...
... particular account transmitted by Warton to Bofwell of Johnson's visit to Oxford , it appears that at this time a confiderable de- gree of intimacy fubfifted between these two celebrated men . There is fome reafon to fuf- pect that this ...
Page xliv
... particular author was determined partly by the early and unremitted fondnefs , which in the preface he defcribes himself to have entertained for Theocritus ; and more immediately by the circumstance of many valuable papers , then lately ...
... particular author was determined partly by the early and unremitted fondnefs , which in the preface he defcribes himself to have entertained for Theocritus ; and more immediately by the circumstance of many valuable papers , then lately ...
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... particular examination of this , our Augustan age of Poetry ; and having , like Æneas , fur- mounted the difficulties , and escaped from the obfcurity , of Tartarus , he was now about to enter on the Elyfian Fields . Devenere locos ...
... particular examination of this , our Augustan age of Poetry ; and having , like Æneas , fur- mounted the difficulties , and escaped from the obfcurity , of Tartarus , he was now about to enter on the Elyfian Fields . Devenere locos ...
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... particular remarks on their respective merits . The readers of the Lecture may think it matter of regret , that he fuffered the " roftrum to grow cold " whilst it was in his poffeffion . e The office of Poet - Laureate acquires more ...
... particular remarks on their respective merits . The readers of the Lecture may think it matter of regret , that he fuffered the " roftrum to grow cold " whilst it was in his poffeffion . e The office of Poet - Laureate acquires more ...
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... particular request ' ; an honour indeed of a distinguished and uncommon nature ; but not undeferved by the man , who had teftified his regard to the University by a refidence of more than 47 years , and had raised her reputation by many ...
... particular request ' ; an honour indeed of a distinguished and uncommon nature ; but not undeferved by the man , who had teftified his regard to the University by a refidence of more than 47 years , and had raised her reputation by many ...
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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.