An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...W.J. and J. Richardson, 1806 - 8 страници |
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... grace , From every voice the tuneful accents fly ; In soaring trebles now it rises high ; And now it sinks , and dwells upon the base . This almost descends to burlesque . What follows is hardly rhyme , and surely not poetry ...
... grace , From every voice the tuneful accents fly ; In soaring trebles now it rises high ; And now it sinks , and dwells upon the base . This almost descends to burlesque . What follows is hardly rhyme , and surely not poetry ...
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... grace beyond the reach of art , Which , without passing thro ' the judgment , gains The heart , and all its ends at once obtains . † * Essay xliii . On BEAUTY . Here † Ver . 150. These lines were thus printed in Dr. Warbur- ton's quarto ...
... grace beyond the reach of art , Which , without passing thro ' the judgment , gains The heart , and all its ends at once obtains . † * Essay xliii . On BEAUTY . Here † Ver . 150. These lines were thus printed in Dr. Warbur- ton's quarto ...
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... grace , " or gain the heart ? " " " 13. Some figures monstrous and mishap'd appear , Consider'd singly , or beheld too near , Which , but proportion'd to their light , or place , Due distance reconciles to form and grace . * By this ...
... grace , " or gain the heart ? " " " 13. Some figures monstrous and mishap'd appear , Consider'd singly , or beheld too near , Which , but proportion'd to their light , or place , Due distance reconciles to form and grace . * By this ...
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... grace to your play , that all the rules in the universe must not stand in competition with it . Well , Sir Knight , ( re- plied the Bachelor , ) for your sake , and for the honour 2 honour of chivalry , I will not leave out the 138 ...
... grace to your play , that all the rules in the universe must not stand in competition with it . Well , Sir Knight , ( re- plied the Bachelor , ) for your sake , and for the honour 2 honour of chivalry , I will not leave out the 138 ...
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... grace of novelty , but as they imply carelessness in the poet , who adopts what he finds ready made to his hands . We have not many compositions where NEW and uncommon rhymes are introduced . One or two writers , * Ver . 324 . Inst ...
... grace of novelty , but as they imply carelessness in the poet , who adopts what he finds ready made to his hands . We have not many compositions where NEW and uncommon rhymes are introduced . One or two writers , * Ver . 324 . Inst ...
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Страница 145 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar...
Страница 36 - 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.
Страница 134 - Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last : But those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way, Th...
Страница 7 - Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old Bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wisard stream : Ay me ! I fondly dream ! Had ye been there...
Страница 231 - Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine, (The victor cried) the glorious prize is mine ! While fish in streams, or birds delight in air, Or in a coach and six the British fair, As long as Atalantis shall be read...
Страница 315 - But o'er the twilight groves and dusky caves, Long-sounding aisles and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green ; Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods.
Страница 219 - water glide away, And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude sinks downward to a gnome, In search of mischief still on earth to roam. The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air.
Страница 220 - Repairs her smiles, awakens every grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face ; Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes. The busy sylphs surround their darling care, These set the head, and those divide the hair, Some fold the sleeve, whilst others plait the gown ; And Betty's prais'd for labours not her own. CANTO II. NOT with more glories, in th...
Страница 390 - Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven •, The roof was fretted gold.
Страница 223 - On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.