Bell's Edition, Volúmenes91-92J. Bell, 1787 |
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... best English authors being uni- verfally read , and imitations of them attempted . Ad- difon had lately difplayed the beauties of Milton's immortal work , and his Remarks on it , together with Mr. Pope's celebrated Essay , had opened ...
... best English authors being uni- verfally read , and imitations of them attempted . Ad- difon had lately difplayed the beauties of Milton's immortal work , and his Remarks on it , together with Mr. Pope's celebrated Essay , had opened ...
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... best of fathers in whatever could adorn humanity ; graceful of perfon , elegant in man- ners and addrefs , pious , humane , generous , with an exquifite tafte in all the finer arts . With this amiable companion and friend Mr. Thomson ...
... best of fathers in whatever could adorn humanity ; graceful of perfon , elegant in man- ners and addrefs , pious , humane , generous , with an exquifite tafte in all the finer arts . With this amiable companion and friend Mr. Thomson ...
Página xx
... best friends greatly blamed in him . Yet could not his genius be depreffed , or his tem- per hurt , by this reverfe of fortune . He refumed , with time , his ufual cheerfulnefs , and never abated one article in the way of living , which ...
... best friends greatly blamed in him . Yet could not his genius be depreffed , or his tem- per hurt , by this reverfe of fortune . He refumed , with time , his ufual cheerfulnefs , and never abated one article in the way of living , which ...
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... best men and best poets that lived in it . He had always been a timorous horfeman , and 4 more fo in a road where numbers of giddy or LIFE OF THOMSON . xxiii.
... best men and best poets that lived in it . He had always been a timorous horfeman , and 4 more fo in a road where numbers of giddy or LIFE OF THOMSON . xxiii.
Página xxvii
... best originals , ancient and modern ; but could not bear to write what was not strictly his own , what had not more imme- diately ftruck his imagination , or touched his heart ; fo that he is not in the least concerned in that quef ...
... best originals , ancient and modern ; but could not bear to write what was not strictly his own , what had not more imme- diately ftruck his imagination , or touched his heart ; fo that he is not in the least concerned in that quef ...
Términos y frases comunes
amid arts beft behold beneath beſt blifs boundleſs breaſt breath Britons clouds deep defcends delight earth ether facred fafe fair fame fatire fave fcene feas fecret fhade fhines fhore fhould filent fing firft firſt fkies flame fleep flood fmile fnows focial foft fome fong fons foul ftate ftill ftores ftorm ftrain ftream fuch funk fweet fwell gale gloom glory grace Greece heart heaven himſelf JAMES THOMSON laft land laſt lefs Liberty light loft mix'd mountains Mufe Muſe Nature Nature's o'er paffions peace pleaſing pleaſure pour'd pride rage rais'd raiſe reign rife rofe Rome round rous'd ſcene ſhade ſhakes ſhe ſhore ſky ſmile ſpirit ſpread ſprings ſtate ſtill ſtorm tempeft thee thefe theſe thofe Thomſon thoſe thou thouſand thro toil treaſures tyrant vale virtue wafte waſte wave whence whofe whoſe wild winds Wiſdom
Pasajes populares
Página 203 - Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Página 73 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Página 231 - Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And* every sense and every heart is joy. Then comes thy glory in the summer months, With light and heat refulgent. Then thy sun Shoots full perfection through the swelling year...
Página 231 - Shoots full perfection through the swelling year: And oft thy voice in dreadful thunder speaks, And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve, By brooks and groves in hollow-whispering gales. Thy bounty shines in Autumn unconfined, And spreads a common feast for all that lives.
Página 184 - I care not, Fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve...
Página 200 - Along the mazy current. Low the woods Bow their hoar head ; and ere the languid sun Faint from the west emits his evening ray, Earth's universal face, deep hid and chill, Is one wild dazzling waste, that buries wide The works of man.
Página 155 - Though restless still themselves, a lulling murmur made. Joined to the prattle of the purling rills, Were heard the lowing herds along the vale, And flocks loud-bleating from the distant hills, And vacant shepherds piping in the dale : And now and then sweet Philomel would wail, Or stock-doves...
Página 53 - Hail, Source of Being ! Universal Soul Of Heaven and Earth ! Essential Presence, hail ! To Thee I bend the knee ; to Thee my thoughts Continual climb ; who, with a master-hand, Hast the great whole into perfection touch'd.
Página 157 - While o'er th' enfeebling lute his hand he flung, And to the trembling chords these tempting verses sung: 'Behold, ye pilgrims of this earth, behold! See all but man with unearned pleasure gay ! See her bright robes the butterfly unfold, Broke from her wintry tomb in prime of May. What youthful bride can equal her array? Who can with her for easy pleasure vie? From mead to mead with gentle wing to stray, From flower to flower on balmy gales to fly, Is all she has to do beneath the radiant sky.
Página 72 - But happy they, the happiest of their kind, Whom gentler stars unite, and in one fate Their hearts, their fortunes, and their beings blend. Tis not the coarser tie of human laws, Unnatural oft, and foreign to the mind, That binds their peace ; but harmony itself, Attuning all their passions into love ; Where friendship...