Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807, Том 1A. Constable, 1811 - 432 страници |
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... powers of an ingenious mind , and a cultivated understanding , and to the attractions of radiant beauty and majestic grace . She is on a larger scale , both as to face and figure , but I never saw features , or a countenance so LETTER I.
... powers of an ingenious mind , and a cultivated understanding , and to the attractions of radiant beauty and majestic grace . She is on a larger scale , both as to face and figure , but I never saw features , or a countenance so LETTER I.
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... our lost Honora hung over the wall of this terrace , enamoured of its scenic graces ! Never more will such bright glances dis- criminate and admire them . Well do I know that the sadness of this reflection touches your heart as 6 LETTER 1 .
... our lost Honora hung over the wall of this terrace , enamoured of its scenic graces ! Never more will such bright glances dis- criminate and admire them . Well do I know that the sadness of this reflection touches your heart as 6 LETTER 1 .
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... graces ; yet , when different friends took me in their carriages on morning airings upon the mountains , my eye dwelt with pleasure upon some fine effects of light and shade , the only beautiful * Johnson . objects on those high wild ...
... graces ; yet , when different friends took me in their carriages on morning airings upon the mountains , my eye dwelt with pleasure upon some fine effects of light and shade , the only beautiful * Johnson . objects on those high wild ...
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... graces and his virtues . By making them habitually our theme , a lost friend seems not lost ; he mingles in our conversation ; we see him ; we hear his voice ; we make our friends see and listen to him ; and we imagine that his ...
... graces and his virtues . By making them habitually our theme , a lost friend seems not lost ; he mingles in our conversation ; we see him ; we hear his voice ; we make our friends see and listen to him ; and we imagine that his ...
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... graces of expression , too subtly elegant to be fortunately transposed into another language ; but I am surprised at the fre- quently violent transitions in the ideas of these odes . They sometimes put me in mind of a little fat ...
... graces of expression , too subtly elegant to be fortunately transposed into another language ; but I am surprised at the fre- quently violent transitions in the ideas of these odes . They sometimes put me in mind of a little fat ...
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Страница 218 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice...
Страница 360 - Thyself how wondrous then! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these Thy lowest works : yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine. Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, Angels ! for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night, Circle his throne rejoicing : ye in heaven, On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Страница 356 - Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
Страница 110 - This pow'r has praise that virtue scarce can warm, Till fame supplies the universal charm. Yet Reason frowns on War's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name; And mortgag'd states their grandsires...
Страница 19 - Thou sun, of this great world both eye and soul, Acknowledge him thy greater ; sound his praise In thy eternal course, both when thou climb'st, And when high noon hast gain'd, and when thou fall'st.
Страница 207 - Wing'd with red lightning and impetuous rage, Perhaps hath spent his shafts, and ceases now To bellow through the vast and boundless deep.
Страница 219 - Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers.
Страница 360 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Страница 218 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill...
Страница 66 - he would hang a dog that read the ' Lycidas ' of Milton twice." " What, then," replied I, " must become of me, who can say it by heart ; and who often repeat it to myself with a delight, which grows by what it feeds upon ? " " Die," returned the growler,