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... common sense set in with uncommon severity , and such a season acts like a drought upon the springs of poesy . To be sure , an unsentimental person might say that the world can get on much better without the finest verses that ever were ...
... common sense set in with uncommon severity , and such a season acts like a drought upon the springs of poesy . To be sure , an unsentimental person might say that the world can get on much better without the finest verses that ever were ...
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... common among writers of English , than it is in France or Italy , where perhaps the traditions of Latin culture were never wholly lost , or , even if they were , continued to be operative by inheritance through the form they had ...
... common among writers of English , than it is in France or Italy , where perhaps the traditions of Latin culture were never wholly lost , or , even if they were , continued to be operative by inheritance through the form they had ...
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... common ) is required to teach a man how to employ himself . " And else- where : " to be employed is to be happy , " which was a saying he borrowed of Swift , another self- dissatisfied man . Bonstetten says in French that " his mind was ...
... common ) is required to teach a man how to employ himself . " And else- where : " to be employed is to be happy , " which was a saying he borrowed of Swift , another self- dissatisfied man . Bonstetten says in French that " his mind was ...
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... common sense would very greatly help such a man as Gray to distrust him- self . If Gray ceased to write poetry , let us be thank- ful that he continued to write letters . Cowper , the poet , a competent judge , for he wrote excellent ...
... common sense would very greatly help such a man as Gray to distrust him- self . If Gray ceased to write poetry , let us be thank- ful that he continued to write letters . Cowper , the poet , a competent judge , for he wrote excellent ...
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... Common Sense and of Imagina- tion , by Johnson , and Wordsworth . Johnson was in an uncommonly surly mood even for him when he wrote his life of Gray . He blames and praises him for the same thing . He makes it a fault in the " Ode on ...
... Common Sense and of Imagina- tion , by Johnson , and Wordsworth . Johnson was in an uncommonly surly mood even for him when he wrote his life of Gray . He blames and praises him for the same thing . He makes it a fault in the " Ode on ...
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Page 199 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Page 314 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 36 - And in my breast the imperfect joys expire. Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men ; The fields to all their wonted tribute bear ; To warm their little loves the birds complain : I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear, And weep the more, because I weep in vain.
Page 278 - There is no danger to a man, that knows What life and death is : there's not any law Exceeds his knowledge ; neither is it lawful That he should stoop to any other law : He goes before them, and commands them all, That to himself is a law rational.
Page 224 - Yet Lamb was hardly extravagant in saying that " the death scene of Marlowe's king moves pity and terror beyond any scene, ancient or modern, with which I am acquainted.
Page 234 - I'll have them fly to India for gold, Ransack the ocean for orient pearl, And search all corners of the new-found world For pleasant fruits and princely delicates; I'll have them read me strange philosophy And tell the secrets of all foreign kings...
Page 72 - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say...
Page 220 - From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as in a mirror, we perceive The highest reaches of a human wit; If these had made one poem's period, And all...
Page 117 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back...
Page 233 - All things that move between the quiet poles Shall be at my command : emperors and kings Are but obeyed in their several provinces, Nor can they raise the wind or rend the clouds ; But his dominion that exceeds in this Stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man, A sound magician is a mighty god : Here, Faustus, tire thy brains to gain a deity.