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... never exceeds those limits which a clear judgment prescribed to a warm imagination . His transitions , even where they are the boldest , will be found adapted to the design of the Ode ; and to arise more from the nature of that kind of ...
... never exceeds those limits which a clear judgment prescribed to a warm imagination . His transitions , even where they are the boldest , will be found adapted to the design of the Ode ; and to arise more from the nature of that kind of ...
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... never assumes the power of a future ; this may be supplied in the MS . by conjecture ; for we only find do in it , which leaves a verse detec tive by one syllable . My Brunk has printed av yap av øvdu pun , after a ings nuscript . In ...
... never assumes the power of a future ; this may be supplied in the MS . by conjecture ; for we only find do in it , which leaves a verse detec tive by one syllable . My Brunk has printed av yap av øvdu pun , after a ings nuscript . In ...
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... never exceeds those limits which a clear judgment prescribed to a warm imagination . His transitions , even where they are the boldest , will be found adapted to the design of the Ode ; and to arise more from the nature of that kind of ...
... never exceeds those limits which a clear judgment prescribed to a warm imagination . His transitions , even where they are the boldest , will be found adapted to the design of the Ode ; and to arise more from the nature of that kind of ...
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... never allowed himself an idle hour . Even his walks for exercise were usually solitary , and his pockets were always stuffed with books , He was fond of sitting in Catharine - hull chapel ( a fine picce of ruins near Guild . ford ) ...
... never allowed himself an idle hour . Even his walks for exercise were usually solitary , and his pockets were always stuffed with books , He was fond of sitting in Catharine - hull chapel ( a fine picce of ruins near Guild . ford ) ...
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... never extensively known as a physician . He could not push himself into notice . He bated all little arts . And as he spent but a few hours daily in town , that cir- cumstance was against hin . Never- theless , when he declined practice ...
... never extensively known as a physician . He could not push himself into notice . He bated all little arts . And as he spent but a few hours daily in town , that cir- cumstance was against hin . Never- theless , when he declined practice ...
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Page 292 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Page 293 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength; And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Page 293 - Oft listening how the hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumbering morn, From the side of some hoar hill, Through the high wood echoing shrill...
Page 293 - And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures ; Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray ; Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide ; Towers and battlements it sees Bosomed high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some Beauty lies, The cynosure of neighbouring eyes.
Page 294 - And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free...
Page 92 - I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man : and my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people : and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth ; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
Page 129 - All hushed was the billows' commotion, And o'er them the light-house looked lovely as hope — That star of life's tremulous ocean. The time is long past, and the scene is afar, Yet when my head rests on its pillow, Will memory sometimes rekindle the star, That...
Page 444 - Auld Nature swears, the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O : Her 'prentice han' she try'd on man, An
Page 116 - The Almighty Lord, who is a most strong tower to all them that put their trust in Him, to whom all things in Heaven, in earth, and under the earth, do bow and obey, be now and evermore...
Page 290 - ... former writers ; he confesses that certain parts have been less attentively considered than others, and that information has come to his hands too late to be made use of; he points out many things in the composition of his work which he thinks may provoke animadversion, and endeavours to defend or to palliate his own practice. Here then is a fund of wealth for the Reviewer, lying upon the very surface ; if he knows...