An Essay on the Application of Natural History to PoetryW. Eyres, 1777 - 156페이지 |
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... gives the leading tone to the defcription , and occupies the whole 3a ed t * * SEE the bishop of Oxford's truly claffical and ingenious Prelections on Sacred Poetry . attention attention of the poet , to the neglect of every 12 POETICAL ...
... gives the leading tone to the defcription , and occupies the whole 3a ed t * * SEE the bishop of Oxford's truly claffical and ingenious Prelections on Sacred Poetry . attention attention of the poet , to the neglect of every 12 POETICAL ...
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... gives the following beautiful lines to the banished Valentine . Here can I fit alone , unfeen of any , And to the nightingale's complaining notes Tune my distresses , and record my woes . THE plaintive character of the night- ingale ...
... gives the following beautiful lines to the banished Valentine . Here can I fit alone , unfeen of any , And to the nightingale's complaining notes Tune my distresses , and record my woes . THE plaintive character of the night- ingale ...
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... give our affent to a licence , as unneceffary as it is hazardous . A mo- dern writer can lofe nothing by this ri- gour ; for fince both true and false wit have fo long been employed upon these topics , every thing brilliant or ingenious ...
... give our affent to a licence , as unneceffary as it is hazardous . A mo- dern writer can lofe nothing by this ri- gour ; for fince both true and false wit have fo long been employed upon these topics , every thing brilliant or ingenious ...
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... gives it the harsh note really belonging to that or- der of birds . Dant fonitum rauci per ftagna loquacia cygni . En . IX . 458 . The hoarfe fwans fcream along the founding marfh . On the other hand , Lucretius has adopted the fabulous ...
... gives it the harsh note really belonging to that or- der of birds . Dant fonitum rauci per ftagna loquacia cygni . En . IX . 458 . The hoarfe fwans fcream along the founding marfh . On the other hand , Lucretius has adopted the fabulous ...
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... gives a ludicrous ex- ample of a fimile built upon fiction . Thus have I seen in Araby the bleft A phoenix couch'd upon her funeral nest ; * CREECH's tranflation of thefe lines is fo very inadequate as to give no idea of the original ...
... gives a ludicrous ex- ample of a fimile built upon fiction . Thus have I seen in Araby the bleft A phoenix couch'd upon her funeral nest ; * CREECH's tranflation of thefe lines is fo very inadequate as to give no idea of the original ...
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109 페이지 - Fair laughs the Morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes: Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm: Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That hush'd in grim repose expects his evening prey.
68 페이지 - Kilda's* shore ; whose lonely race Resign the setting sun to Indian worlds, The royal eagle draws his vigorous young, Strong-pounc'd, and ardent with paternal fire ^ Now fit to raise a kingdom of their own, He drives them from his fort, the towering seat, For ages, of his empire ; which, in peace, Unstain'd he holds, while many a league to sea He wings his course, and preys in distant isles.
50 페이지 - In jointed armour watch : on smooth the seal And bended dolphins play ; part, huge of bulk, Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, Tempest the ocean : there Leviathan, Hugest of living creatures, on the deep Stretch'd like a promontory, sleeps or swims, And seems a moving land, and at his gills Draws in, and at his trunk spouts out a sea.
62 페이지 - Philomela deigns To let them joy, and purposes, in thought Elate, to make her night excel their day. The blackbird whistles from the thorny brake; The mellow bullfinch answers from the grove; Nor are the linnets, o'er the flowering furze Pour'd out profusely, silent.
146 페이지 - Bear me, Pomona ! to thy citron groves ; To where the lemon and the piercing lime, With the deep orange, glowing through the green, Their lighter glories blend.
66 페이지 - Intent. And often, from the careless back Of herds and flocks, a thousand tugging bills Pluck hair and wool ; and oft, when...
131 페이지 - Atlantic surge Pours in among the stormy Hebrides; Who can recount what transmigrations there Are annual made? what nations come and go? And how the living clouds on clouds arise? Infinite wings ! till all the plume-dark air And rude resounding shore are one wild cry.
66 페이지 - Commit their feeble offspring : the cleft tree Offers its kind concealment to a few, Their food its infefts, and its mofs their nefts. Others apart far in the grafTy dale, Or roughening wafte, their humble texture weave.
70 페이지 - The careful hen Calls all her chirping family around, Fed and defended by the fearless cock; Whose breast with ardour flames, as on he walks, Graceful, and crows defiance.
51 페이지 - In common, rang'd in figure wedge their way, Intelligent of feafons, and fet forth Their aery caravan high over feas Flying, and over lands with mutual wing...