The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Том 54Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... fhall fay but little of the different kinds a elegy . The melancholy of a lover is different , no doubt , from what we feel on other mixed occafions . The mind in which love and grief at once predomi- nate mind 8 A PREFATORY ESSAY.
... fhall fay but little of the different kinds a elegy . The melancholy of a lover is different , no doubt , from what we feel on other mixed occafions . The mind in which love and grief at once predomi- nate mind 8 A PREFATORY ESSAY.
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... once predomi- nate , is foftened to an excess . Love - elegy therefore is more negligent of order and defign , and being ad- dreffed chiefly to the ladies , requires little more than tenderness and perfpicuity . Elegies , that are ...
... once predomi- nate , is foftened to an excess . Love - elegy therefore is more negligent of order and defign , and being ad- dreffed chiefly to the ladies , requires little more than tenderness and perfpicuity . Elegies , that are ...
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... once both fruits and bloffoms ; and the tree is by no means in perfection without the former , however it may be embellished by the flowers which furround it .. ELEGIES , • E LEGIES . ELE GY I. He arrives at ON ELEGY . IT.
... once both fruits and bloffoms ; and the tree is by no means in perfection without the former , however it may be embellished by the flowers which furround it .. ELEGIES , • E LEGIES . ELE GY I. He arrives at ON ELEGY . IT.
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... Once crown'd his pleasures , and difpell'd his pain . Yes - the fair profpect of furviving praise Can every fenfe of prefent joys excel : For this , great Hadrian chofe laborious days ; Through this , expiring , bade a gay farewel ...
... Once crown'd his pleasures , and difpell'd his pain . Yes - the fair profpect of furviving praise Can every fenfe of prefent joys excel : For this , great Hadrian chofe laborious days ; Through this , expiring , bade a gay farewel ...
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... once - lov'd friend dif- Own ? Life is that stranger land , that alien clime : Shall kindred fouls forego their focial claim ? Launch'd in the vaft abyfs of space and time , Shall dark fufpicion quench the generous flame ? Myriads of ...
... once - lov'd friend dif- Own ? Life is that stranger land , that alien clime : Shall kindred fouls forego their focial claim ? Launch'd in the vaft abyfs of space and time , Shall dark fufpicion quench the generous flame ? Myriads of ...
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Страница 219 - Twas her own country bred the flock so fair; 'Twas her own labour did the fleece prepare...
Страница 122 - Alas ! from the day that we met What hope of an end to my woes ? When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repose. Yet time may diminish the pain : The flower, and the shrub, and the tree, Which I rear'd for her pleasure in vain, In time may have comfort for me.
Страница 121 - Not a pine in my grove is there seen, But with tendrils of woodbine is bound; Not a beech's more beautiful green. But a sweet-briar entwines it around. Not my fields in the prime of the year, More charms than my cattle unfold; Not a brook that is limpid and clear, But it glitters with fishes of gold.
Страница 223 - But ah ! what pen his piteous plight may trace ? Or what device his loud laments explain? The form uncouth of his disguised face ? The pallid hue that dyes his looks amain ? The plenteous shower that does his cheek distain...
Страница 121 - I fed on the smiles of my dear ? They tell me, my favourite maid, The pride of that valley, is flown ; Alas ! where with her I have stray'd, I could wander with pleasure, alone.
Страница 121 - I priz'd every hour that went by, Beyond all that had pleas'd me before; But now they are past, and I sigh ; And I grieve that I priz'd them no more.
Страница 62 - Th'. habitual fcene of hill and dale, The rural herds, the vernal gale, The tangled vetch's purple bloom, The fragrance of the bean's perfume, Be theirs alone who cultivate the foil, And drink the cup of thirft, and eat the bread of toil But foon the pageant fades away ! 'Tis nature only bears perpetual fway.
Страница 88 - Each wayward paffion foon would tear His bofom, now fo void of care ; And, when they left his ebbing vein, What, but...
Страница 228 - And must be bought, though penury betide. The plumb all azure and the nut all brown, And here each season do those cakes abide, Whose honour'd names th* inventive city own, Rendering through Britain's isle Salopia's praises known.
Страница 90 - The river gliding down the dale ! The hill with beeches crown'd ! But now, when urg'd by tender woes I fpeed to meet my dear, That hill and ftream my zeal oppofe, And check my fond career.