Essay on English poetryJohn Murray, 1819 - Authors, English |
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... leaves behind it the elements of new beauty and fertility . Its first effect was to degrade the Anglo - Saxon tongue to the exclusive use of the inferior orders ; and by the transference of estates , eccle- siastical benefices , and ...
... leaves behind it the elements of new beauty and fertility . Its first effect was to degrade the Anglo - Saxon tongue to the exclusive use of the inferior orders ; and by the transference of estates , eccle- siastical benefices , and ...
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... leaves an indication of crude and puerile taste , when , in a laborious treatise on poetry , he directs the com- poser how to make verses beautiful to the eye , by writing them " in the shapes of eggs , turbots , fuzees , and lozenges ...
... leaves an indication of crude and puerile taste , when , in a laborious treatise on poetry , he directs the com- poser how to make verses beautiful to the eye , by writing them " in the shapes of eggs , turbots , fuzees , and lozenges ...
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... leaves . David . What tones , what words , what looks , what wonders pierce My soul , incensed with a sudden fire ? What tree , what shade , what spring , what paradise , Enjoys the beauty of so fair a dame ? Fair Eva , placed in ...
... leaves . David . What tones , what words , what looks , what wonders pierce My soul , incensed with a sudden fire ? What tree , what shade , what spring , what paradise , Enjoys the beauty of so fair a dame ? Fair Eva , placed in ...
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... Leaving her guest half won , and wanton ey'd : He had forgot his herb - cunning delight Had so bewitch'd his ears , and blear'd his sight , That he was not himself . * * * * * * * * Unto his view She represents a banquet , usher'd in By ...
... Leaving her guest half won , and wanton ey'd : He had forgot his herb - cunning delight Had so bewitch'd his ears , and blear'd his sight , That he was not himself . * * * * * * * * Unto his view She represents a banquet , usher'd in By ...
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... leave his acquaintance with Sylvester hardly questionable ; although some of the expressions quoted by Mr. Dunster , which are common to them both , may be traced back to other poets older than Sylvester . The entire amount of his ...
... leave his acquaintance with Sylvester hardly questionable ; although some of the expressions quoted by Mr. Dunster , which are common to them both , may be traced back to other poets older than Sylvester . The entire amount of his ...
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Page 268 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam: Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green: Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles thro' the vernal wood: The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine!
Page 268 - Or in proud falls magnificently lost, But clear and artless, pouring" through the plain Health to the sick, and solace to the swain. Whose causeway parts the vale with shady rows? Whose seats the weary traveller repose ? Who taught that Heav'n-directed spire to rise? " The Man of Ross,
Page 222 - Do my face (If thou had'st ever feeling of a sorrow) Thus, thus, Antiphila : strive to make me look Like Sorrow's monument ; and the trees about me, Let them be dry and leafless ; let the rocks Groan with continual surges ; and behind me, Make all a desolation.
Page 245 - Anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders...
Page 269 - So Zembla's rocks (the beauteous work of frost) Rise white in air, and glitter o'er the coast ; Pale suns, unfelt, at distance roll away, And on th' impassive ice the lightnings play ; Eternal snows the growing mass supply, Till the bright mountains prop th' incumbent sky ; As Atlas fix'd, each hoary pile appears, The gather'd winter of a thousand years.
Page 36 - THOUGH some make slight of libels, yet you may see by them how the wind sits : as take a straw and throw it up into the air, you shall see by that which way the wind is, which you shall not do by casting up a stone. More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as ballads and libels.
Page 111 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Page 143 - Eva, plac'd in perfect happiness, Lending her praise-notes to the liberal heavens, Struck with the accents of Arch-angels' tunes, Wrought not more pleasure to her husband's thoughts, Than this fair woman's words and notes to mine.
Page 119 - From ears to hear, and eyes to see. And when in mind I did consent To follow thus my fancy's will, And when my heart did first relent To taste such bait myself to spill, I would my heart had been as thine, Or else thy heart as soft as mine.
Page 175 - Within a little silent grove hard by, Upon a small ascent, he might espy A stately chapel, richly gilt without, Beset with shady sycamores about: And ever and anon he might well hear A sound of music steal in at his ear >. As the wind gave it being...