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... imitation at all ; but because in the best effusions of those writers are to be found the happiest specimens of English versification , and such as with due regard to every man's own mode of thinking and speaking , might lead the poets ...
... imitation at all ; but because in the best effusions of those writers are to be found the happiest specimens of English versification , and such as with due regard to every man's own mode of thinking and speaking , might lead the poets ...
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... imitation of not the best models , written in a style at once vague and elaborate . Pleasures of Memory , -a poem , at best , in imitation of Goldsmith , is written in the worst and most monotonous taste of modern versification , to say ...
... imitation of not the best models , written in a style at once vague and elaborate . Pleasures of Memory , -a poem , at best , in imitation of Goldsmith , is written in the worst and most monotonous taste of modern versification , to say ...
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... imitation of Virgil , Fairfax improved into a thought as new as it was beautiful , — On Lebanon at first his foot he set , And shook his wings with rory may - dews wet . Milton , passing over the original in this passage , copies the ...
... imitation of Virgil , Fairfax improved into a thought as new as it was beautiful , — On Lebanon at first his foot he set , And shook his wings with rory may - dews wet . Milton , passing over the original in this passage , copies the ...
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... imitation , his giving himself up to a profusion of words and prettinesses on which he might rhyme by the hour , and his coming out , year after year , with a new poem provocative of all sorts of suspi- cions connected with the trade ...
... imitation , his giving himself up to a profusion of words and prettinesses on which he might rhyme by the hour , and his coming out , year after year , with a new poem provocative of all sorts of suspi- cions connected with the trade ...
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... as not answering the promise of his youth , if in quitting the ordinary versification of the day , he had not deviated into another imitation and got into the trammels of Spenser . The style perhaps is not so much an 70 NOTES ON THE.
... as not answering the promise of his youth , if in quitting the ordinary versification of the day , he had not deviated into another imitation and got into the trammels of Spenser . The style perhaps is not so much an 70 NOTES ON THE.
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Page 39 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the Sun, her Eyes the Gazers strike, And, like the Sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful Ease, and Sweetness void of Pride, Might hide her Faults, if Belles had Faults to hide: If to her share some Female Errors fall, Look on her Face, and you'll forget 'em all. This Nymph, to the destruction of Mankind, Nourish'd two Locks, which graceful hung behind In equal Curls, and well conspir'd to deck With shining Ringlets the smooth Iv'ry Neck.
Page 38 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies : The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye...
Page 104 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Page 39 - But ev'ry eye was fix'd on her alone. On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore. Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose, Quick as her eyes, and as...
Page 114 - Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flower, — Before, milk-white ; now purple with love's wound — And maidens call it, love-in-idleness l6.
Page 114 - That very time I saw (but thou couldst not), Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Page 140 - Quis multa gracilis te puer in rosa Perfusus liquidis urget odoribus Grato, Pyrrha, sub antro?
Page 134 - Bithynos liquisse campos et videre te in tuto ! o quid solutis est beatius curis ? cum mens onus reponit, ac peregrino labore fessi venimus larem ad nostrum desideratoque acquiescimus lecto. hoc est, quod unum est pro laboribus tantis.
Page 114 - Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath That the rude sea grew civil at her song And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 141 - Pyrrha, sub antrof cui flavam religas comam, simplex munditiis? heu quoties fidem mutatosque deos flebit et aspera nigris aequora ventis emirabitur insolens, qui nunc te fruitur credulus aurea; qui semper vacuam, semper amabilem sperat nescius aurae fallacis. miseri, quibus intentata nites ! me tabula sacer votiva paries indicat uvida suspendisse potenti vestimenta maris deo.