Oxford: A PoemS. Collingwood; pub. by Whittaker, London, 1831 - 258 páginas |
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... Johnson , Sir Philip Sydney , Ben Johnson , and Locke - Origin of Locke's famous Essay- intellectual society - a contrast - Canning - Davenant- Wesley - Hervey - Denham - Chatham - Thomas Warton -Lisle Bowles - Country clergymen - their ...
... Johnson , Sir Philip Sydney , Ben Johnson , and Locke - Origin of Locke's famous Essay- intellectual society - a contrast - Canning - Davenant- Wesley - Hervey - Denham - Chatham - Thomas Warton -Lisle Bowles - Country clergymen - their ...
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... Johnson dwelt ! the dignified and sage , The noblest honour of a noble age ; Whose mien and manners , though of graceless kind , Were all apart from his heroic mind ; They were the bark around some royal tree Whose branches glorying in ...
... Johnson dwelt ! the dignified and sage , The noblest honour of a noble age ; Whose mien and manners , though of graceless kind , Were all apart from his heroic mind ; They were the bark around some royal tree Whose branches glorying in ...
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... Johnson's name , And deeper worship to his spirit vow'd Than others have to loftier worth allow'd . In what a mould was his high nature cast Who never ventur'd , but he all surpass'd ! And reign'd amid the realm of Mind alone , Nor left ...
... Johnson's name , And deeper worship to his spirit vow'd Than others have to loftier worth allow'd . In what a mould was his high nature cast Who never ventur'd , but he all surpass'd ! And reign'd amid the realm of Mind alone , Nor left ...
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... could the loud pretence Of puny language with profoundest sense , Such massy substance in the meaning show , As that which ages to a Johnson owe ! Descend from learning to the nearer view , Where Man 52 PART I. OXFORD .
... could the loud pretence Of puny language with profoundest sense , Such massy substance in the meaning show , As that which ages to a Johnson owe ! Descend from learning to the nearer view , Where Man 52 PART I. OXFORD .
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... Johnson thus : the piety that trod Each path of life , communing with her God In gloomy hours could childish phantoms see , And give to penance what was due to tea P ! The mind that reason'd on the fate of man , And soar'd as high as ...
... Johnson thus : the piety that trod Each path of life , communing with her God In gloomy hours could childish phantoms see , And give to penance what was due to tea P ! The mind that reason'd on the fate of man , And soar'd as high as ...
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Página 214 - O! why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine; Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
Página 187 - But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Página 202 - Hie, dum sublimis versus ructatur et errat, Si veluti merulis intentus decidit auceps In puteum foveamve, licet, ' Succurrite,
Página 188 - Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed.
Página 217 - Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears ; To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Página 223 - Twere well might Critics still this freedom take, But Appius reddens at each word you speak, And stares, tremendous, with a threat'ning eye, Like some fierce Tyrant in old tapestry.
Página 234 - Say, for you saw us, ye immortal lights, How oft unwearied have we spent the nights, Till the Ledaean stars, so famed for love, Wonder'd at us from above! We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine ; But search of deep Philosophy, Wit, Eloquence, and Poetry, Arts which I loved, for they, my friend, were thine.
Página 195 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among...
Página 213 - Wo to her stubborn heart, if once mine come Into the self-same room, 'Twill tear and blow up all within, Like a grenado shot into a magazin. Then shall Love keep the ashes, and torn parts, Of both our broken hearts : Shall out of both one new one make ; From her's th" allay; from mine, the metal take.
Página 194 - A poet, while living, is seldom an object sufficiently great to attract much attention ; his real merits are known but to a few, and these are generally sparing in their praises. When his fame is increased by time, it is then too late to investigate the peculiarities of his disposition ; the dews of morning are past, and we vainly try to continue the chase by the meridian splendor.