An Essay on Light Reading: As it May be Supposed to Influence Moral Conduct and Literary TasteJ. Carpenter, 1808 - 213 страници |
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... in- capable of melodious verse or poignant wit , could yet , like them , be abusive , filthy , and obscene ; and have accord- ingly , for more than half a century , in- fested society with what they imagine , or pretend to 157.
... in- capable of melodious verse or poignant wit , could yet , like them , be abusive , filthy , and obscene ; and have accord- ingly , for more than half a century , in- fested society with what they imagine , or pretend to 157.
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... verses does not allow us to rank him in that high poetical station to which his genius might have carried him ; and adds , of the Deserted Village , Traveller , and M Hermit , that they are only specimens " Birds ' 161.
... verses does not allow us to rank him in that high poetical station to which his genius might have carried him ; and adds , of the Deserted Village , Traveller , and M Hermit , that they are only specimens " Birds ' 161.
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... verse than he did , is altogether so desti- tute of force , as to render a laboured re- futation superfluous . He must know , as well as any one , that excellence in an author consists not in writing much but in writing well . When we ...
... verse than he did , is altogether so desti- tute of force , as to render a laboured re- futation superfluous . He must know , as well as any one , that excellence in an author consists not in writing much but in writing well . When we ...
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... verse is distinguished , to dwell with intense admiration on the sub- stance . In support of this remark , I shall ex- tract only a few passages from the De- serted Village ; the construction of which , however beautiful , is scarcely ...
... verse is distinguished , to dwell with intense admiration on the sub- stance . In support of this remark , I shall ex- tract only a few passages from the De- serted Village ; the construction of which , however beautiful , is scarcely ...
Страница 177
... verse , are so va- rious , as to leave the reader in doubt whether most to admire it as an evi- dence of the author's poetical talents , his goodness of heart , his sublimity of conception and expression , the integrity of his judgment ...
... verse , are so va- rious , as to leave the reader in doubt whether most to admire it as an evi- dence of the author's poetical talents , his goodness of heart , his sublimity of conception and expression , the integrity of his judgment ...
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Страница 176 - And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade; Unfit, in these degenerate times of shame, To catch the heart or strike for honest fame...
Страница 175 - And pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour, When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left her wheel and robes of country brown.
Страница 168 - While the pent ocean, rising o'er the pile, Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile ; — The slow canal, the yellow-blossom'd vale, The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated plain — A new creation rescued from his reign.
Страница 167 - To men of other minds my fancy flies, Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land, And, sedulous to stop the coming tide, Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride. Onward, methinks, and diligently slow, The...
Страница 181 - But urg'd by storms along its slippery way, I love thee, all unlovely as thou seem'st, And dreaded as thou art! Thou...
Страница 188 - British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of universal emancipation. No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced ; no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have...
Страница 174 - As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Tho' round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Страница 189 - No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced; no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon him; no matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down; no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of Slavery; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust...
Страница 183 - Tis morning ; and the sun, with ruddy orb Ascending, fires the horizon ; while the clouds, That crowd away before the driving wind, More ardent as the disk emerges more, Resemble most some city in a blaze, Seen through the leafless wood.
Страница 188 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.