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... ancient Princes and Chieftains of North Wales . With whatever delight , however , the Cam- brian genealogist might pursue the line of his ancestry , a barren catalogue of uncouth names would furnish no entertainment to the reader . I ...
... ancient Princes and Chieftains of North Wales . With whatever delight , however , the Cam- brian genealogist might pursue the line of his ancestry , a barren catalogue of uncouth names would furnish no entertainment to the reader . I ...
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... ancient custom which is daily falling into disuse , and a pleasing specimen of the mind and talents of the writer . TO WILLIAM JONES , Esquire . SIR ; January 1 , 1748 . It was a custom among the An- cient Britons ( and still retained ...
... ancient custom which is daily falling into disuse , and a pleasing specimen of the mind and talents of the writer . TO WILLIAM JONES , Esquire . SIR ; January 1 , 1748 . It was a custom among the An- cient Britons ( and still retained ...
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... ancient name . Some of their school- * The Bishop of Cloyne , in a letter to the Dean of St. Asaph , dated November 1795 , mentions Sir William Jones in terms of respect and affection : - " I knew him " ( he writes ) from the early age ...
... ancient name . Some of their school- * The Bishop of Cloyne , in a letter to the Dean of St. Asaph , dated November 1795 , mentions Sir William Jones in terms of respect and affection : - " I knew him " ( he writes ) from the early age ...
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... ancient language , he discovered , what he never before suspected , a near connection between the modern Persic and Arabic , and he immediately determined to acquire the former . He accordingly studied it with attention in the only ...
... ancient language , he discovered , what he never before suspected , a near connection between the modern Persic and Arabic , and he immediately determined to acquire the former . He accordingly studied it with attention in the only ...
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... of every other state , ancient or modern . Of this fact he acknowledged that he had never before entertained an idea . He was now quali- fied to appreciate with more accuracy , the merits and fied 79 nese language, which he wished to ...
... of every other state , ancient or modern . Of this fact he acknowledged that he had never before entertained an idea . He was now quali- fied to appreciate with more accuracy , the merits and fied 79 nese language, which he wished to ...
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Página 137 - 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 Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some Beauty lies, The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes.
Página 137 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Página 200 - The gather'd wisdom of a thousand years/'-* if you will allow me to parody a line of Pope. I do not see why the study of the law law is called dry and unpleasant; and I very much suspect that it seems so to those only, who would think any study unpleasant, which required a great application of the mind, and exertion of the memory.
Página 136 - I was resolved to do all the honour in my power to as great a poet, and set out in the morning, in company with a friend, to visit a place where Milton spent some part of his life, and where, in all probability, he composed several of his earliest productions.
Página 139 - ... where the sheep were feeding at large, in short, the view of the streams and rivers, convinced us that there was not a single useless or idle word in the above-mentioned description, but that it was a most exact and lively representation of nature. Thus will this fine passage, which has always been admired for its elegance, receive an additional beauty from its exactness. After we had walked, with a kind of poetical enthusiasm over this enchanted ground, we returned to the village.
Página 140 - The tradition of his having lived there is current among the villagers: one of them showed us a ruinous wall that made part of his chamber, and I was much pleased with another, who had forgotten the name of Milton, but recollected him by the title of The Poet.
Página 336 - But be assured, my dear lord, that if the minister be offended at the style in which I have spoken, do speak, and will speak, of public affairs, and on that account should refuse to give me the judgeship, I shall not be at all mortified, having already a very decent competence, without a debt or a care of any kind.
Página 413 - Kilgarran o'erhangs the brown dale; Where none are unwilling, and few are unable, To sing a wild song or repeat a wild tale ! Yet weak is our vaunt...
Página 141 - I ever pass a month or six weeks at Oxford in the summer, I shall be inclined to hire and repair this venerable mansion, and to make a festival for a circle of friends in honor of Milton, the most perfect scholar, as well as • the sublimest poet, that our country ever produced.
Página 28 - Revelation ; and the impression which his imagination received from it was never effaced. At a period of mature judgment...