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... learned Civilian and critic , Gravina , the patron and parent ( by adoption ) of Metastasio , are slightly mentioned . The chief accusation against Gravina is that he is too Grecian in the fable and conduct of his dramas . Though they ...
... learned Civilian and critic , Gravina , the patron and parent ( by adoption ) of Metastasio , are slightly mentioned . The chief accusation against Gravina is that he is too Grecian in the fable and conduct of his dramas . Though they ...
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-- We now come to the learned and justly celebrated Marquis Maffei , whose tragedy of Merope is not only the chief glory of Melpomene in Italy , but has served as a model for excellent dramas in almost every other country in Europe . We ...
-- We now come to the learned and justly celebrated Marquis Maffei , whose tragedy of Merope is not only the chief glory of Melpomene in Italy , but has served as a model for excellent dramas in almost every other country in Europe . We ...
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... learned , he is said to be amiable and frigid , there seems a clash of epithets . The author somewhat too frequently , perhaps , tells his readers that the letters and books which he quotes , or mentions , are lying before him ; which ...
... learned , he is said to be amiable and frigid , there seems a clash of epithets . The author somewhat too frequently , perhaps , tells his readers that the letters and books which he quotes , or mentions , are lying before him ; which ...
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... learned and elaborate account of the Telegraph : -but , before the author requests our attention to the scientific part of his plan , he produces much pleasant matter . He observes : But a still more compendious method of communication ...
... learned and elaborate account of the Telegraph : -but , before the author requests our attention to the scientific part of his plan , he produces much pleasant matter . He observes : But a still more compendious method of communication ...
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... learned men of the ancients ; but every man who is called for happens to be busy , from Pythagoras " who has rashly run himself upon an employment of keeping asses from a field of beans , " to Archimedes , who is meditating the ...
... learned men of the ancients ; but every man who is called for happens to be busy , from Pythagoras " who has rashly run himself upon an employment of keeping asses from a field of beans , " to Archimedes , who is meditating the ...
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Page 205 - tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it. And hark! how blithe the throstle sings! He, too, is no mean preacher: Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your Teacher.
Page 201 - First named these notes a melancholy strain. And many a poet echoes the conceit ; Poet who hath been building up the rhyme When he had better far have stretched his limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell, By sun or moon-light, to the influxes Of shapes and sounds and shifting elements Surrendering his whole spirit...
Page 201 - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes, As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music...
Page 200 - No cloud, no relique of the sunken day Distinguishes the West, no long thin slip Of sullen light, no obscure trembling hues. Come, we will rest on this old mossy bridge ! You see the glimmer of the stream beneath, But hear no murmuring : it flows silently, O'er its soft bed of verdure. All is still, A balmy night ! and though the stars be dim, Yet let us think upon the vernal showers That gladden the green earth, and we shall find A pleasure in the dimness of the stars. And hark ! the Nightingale...
Page 202 - Full fain it would delay me! My dear babe, Who, capable of no articulate sound, Mars all things with his imitative lisp, How he would place his hand beside his ear, His little hand, the small forefinger up, And bid us listen!
Page 420 - Firm-paced and slow, a horrid front they form, Still as the breeze, but dreadful as the storm; Low murmuring sounds along their banners fly, Revenge, or death...
Page 200 - But hear no murmuring: it flows silently, O'er its soft bed of verdure. All is still, A balmy night! and though the stars be dim, Yet let us think upon the vernal showers That gladden the green earth, and we shall find A pleasure in the dimness of the stars. And hark! the Nightingale begins its song, 'Most musical, most melancholy
Page 204 - The sun, above the mountain's head, A freshening lustre mellow Through all the long green fields has spread, His first sweet evening yellow. Books ! 'tis a dull and endless strife : Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music ! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.
Page 205 - One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. Sweet is the lore which Nature brings ; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things : — We murder to dissect. Enough of Science and of Art ; Close up those barren leaves ; Come forth, and bring with you a heart That watches and receives.
Page 41 - We join no feeling and attach no form! As if the soldier died without a wound; As if the fibres of this godlike frame Were gored without a pang...