Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... Muse never wandered with safety , but from his library to his grotto , or from his grotto into his library back again . His mind dwelt with greater pleasure on his own garden , than on the garden of Eden ; he could describe the ...
... Muse never wandered with safety , but from his library to his grotto , or from his grotto into his library back again . His mind dwelt with greater pleasure on his own garden , than on the garden of Eden ; he could describe the ...
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... Muse was on a peace - establishment , and grew somewhat effeminate by long ease and indulgence . He lived in the smiles of fortune , and basked in the favour of the great . In his smooth and polish- ed verse we meet with no prodigies of ...
... Muse was on a peace - establishment , and grew somewhat effeminate by long ease and indulgence . He lived in the smiles of fortune , and basked in the favour of the great . In his smooth and polish- ed verse we meet with no prodigies of ...
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... muse but serv'd to ease some friend , not wife ; To help me through this long disease , my life ? To second , Arbuthnot ! thy art and care , And teach the being you preserv'd to bear . But why then publish ? Granville the polite , And ...
... muse but serv'd to ease some friend , not wife ; To help me through this long disease , my life ? To second , Arbuthnot ! thy art and care , And teach the being you preserv'd to bear . But why then publish ? Granville the polite , And ...
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... Muses bid my numbers roll Strong as their charms , and gentle as their soul ; With Zeuxis ' Helen thy Bridgewater vie , And these be sung till Granville's Myra die : Alas ! how little from the grave we claim ! Thou but preserv'st a face ...
... Muses bid my numbers roll Strong as their charms , and gentle as their soul ; With Zeuxis ' Helen thy Bridgewater vie , And these be sung till Granville's Myra die : Alas ! how little from the grave we claim ! Thou but preserv'st a face ...
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... Muse , and as if he thought them quite as good , and likely to be quite as acceptable to the reader , as his own poetry . He did not think the difference worth putting himself to the trouble of accomplishing . He had too little art to ...
... Muse , and as if he thought them quite as good , and likely to be quite as acceptable to the reader , as his own poetry . He did not think the difference worth putting himself to the trouble of accomplishing . He had too little art to ...
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Página 279 - The effect of reading this old ballad is as if all our hopes and fears hung upon the last fibre of the heart, and we felt that giving way. What silence, what loneliness, what leisure for grief and despair '. ' My father pressed me sair, my mother didna speak. But she looked in my face till my heart was like to break.