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Page xiii
... Liberty which was not agreeable to Britannia in any Season . " As to the dramas generally , it may be said that a Quixotically - minded reader who might make the attempt of reading these long - extinct performances would assuredly not ...
... Liberty which was not agreeable to Britannia in any Season . " As to the dramas generally , it may be said that a Quixotically - minded reader who might make the attempt of reading these long - extinct performances would assuredly not ...
Page xiv
... Liberty formed his chief occupa- tion for two years . Thomson , whose patriotic feelings were lively , regarded this as his finest work : an opinion in which -as has been the case with more poets than one - the author differed from the ...
... Liberty formed his chief occupa- tion for two years . Thomson , whose patriotic feelings were lively , regarded this as his finest work : an opinion in which -as has been the case with more poets than one - the author differed from the ...
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... Liberty : he had meanwhile been some- what straitened in means , and found it expedient to inti- mate to the Prince that his affairs were " in a more poetical posture than formerly . " The pension was revoked towards 1748 , in ...
... Liberty : he had meanwhile been some- what straitened in means , and found it expedient to inti- mate to the Prince that his affairs were " in a more poetical posture than formerly . " The pension was revoked towards 1748 , in ...
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... Liberty knew no love beyond the universal appetite of sex , had perhaps never been in cold water in his life , and cherished bodily comforts as far as his means permitted . In some other respects the testimony of Savage was wholly in ...
... Liberty knew no love beyond the universal appetite of sex , had perhaps never been in cold water in his life , and cherished bodily comforts as far as his means permitted . In some other respects the testimony of Savage was wholly in ...
Page xix
... Liberty - survive with other than a galvanic life . The Castle of Indolence is gene- rally regarded as the more finished and excellent production of the two : The Seasons , however , are very greatly more important , and this not only ...
... Liberty - survive with other than a galvanic life . The Castle of Indolence is gene- rally regarded as the more finished and excellent production of the two : The Seasons , however , are very greatly more important , and this not only ...
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Page 86 - Heavens ! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, And glittering towns, and gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays...
Page 319 - A pleasing land of drowsy -head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
Page 105 - Beyond the pomp of dress : for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most.
Page 42 - With quickened step, Brown night retires. Young day pours in apace, And opens all the lawny prospect wide. The dripping rock, the mountain's misty top, Swell on the sight, and brighten with the dawn. Blue, through the dust, the smoking currents shine ; And from the bladed field the fearful hare Limps, awkward ; while along the forest glade The wild deer trip, and often turning gaze At early passenger. Music awakes, The native voice of undissembled joy; And thick around the woodland hymns arise.
Page 319 - It was, I ween, a lovely spot of ground; And there a season atween June and May, Half...
Page 3 - To shake the sounding marsh; or from the shore The plovers when to scatter o'er the heath, And sing their wild notes to the listening waste. At last from Aries rolls the bounteous sun, And the bright Bull receives him. Then no more Th...
Page 365 - Ah! what avail the largest gifts of heaven, " When drooping health and spirits go amiss? " How tasteless then whatever can be given! " Health is the vital principle of bliss,
Page 155 - What water, of the still unfrozen spring, In the loose marsh or solitary lake, Where the fresh fountain from the bottom boils. These check his fearful steps; and down he sinks, Beneath the shelter of the shapeless drift, Thinking o'er all the bitterness of death; Mixed with the tender anguish Nature shoots Through the wrung bosom of the dying man, His wife, his children, and his friends unseen. In vain for him th...
Page 9 - Amid the glad creation, musing praise, And looking lively gratitude. At last, The clouds consign their treasures to the fields) And, softly shaking on the dimpled pool Prelusive drops, let all their moisture flow, In large effusion, o'er the freshen'd world. The stealing shower is scarce to patter heard, By such as wander through the forest walks, Beneath the umbrageous multitude of leaves. But who can hold the shade, while Heaven descends In universal bounty, shedding herbs, And fruits, and flowers,...
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