The Bardiad: A Poem ; in Two CantosLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, etc., etc., Originally published as an ode.-Pref., 1823 - 286 pagina's |
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Pagina iv
... once moderate and cool . He who has read " Thomson's Seasons , " often speaks with as invincible dogmatism and su- percilious animadversion as if he had read Chaucer and Spenser ; or rather , I may , more justly , observe , as if he had ...
... once moderate and cool . He who has read " Thomson's Seasons , " often speaks with as invincible dogmatism and su- percilious animadversion as if he had read Chaucer and Spenser ; or rather , I may , more justly , observe , as if he had ...
Pagina 16
... once known , are never witness'd more . Yet may we learn , by such instructors taught , That rhyme shows genius too as well as thought . 1 Satire and Epigram may useful be , Caustic lampoon , and brilliant repartee ; Wit may bring folly ...
... once known , are never witness'd more . Yet may we learn , by such instructors taught , That rhyme shows genius too as well as thought . 1 Satire and Epigram may useful be , Caustic lampoon , and brilliant repartee ; Wit may bring folly ...
Pagina 36
... once distinguish'd thee ? What fields of Fancy shall the gleaner cull , Enrich'd with such " sublime and beautiful ? " See Learning , Genius , Taste , at once unite , Whate'er the theme on which the prophets write ! Not polish'd Greece ...
... once distinguish'd thee ? What fields of Fancy shall the gleaner cull , Enrich'd with such " sublime and beautiful ? " See Learning , Genius , Taste , at once unite , Whate'er the theme on which the prophets write ! Not polish'd Greece ...
Pagina 46
... once more , seraphic YOUNG ! ( Thy praise already but too meanly sung , ) How glows , with Heav'n's unbounded love , thy pen ! Depicts the agony of Christ for men ! Revives in " paraphrase " the dazzling " JOB , " And paints the Day ...
... once more , seraphic YOUNG ! ( Thy praise already but too meanly sung , ) How glows , with Heav'n's unbounded love , thy pen ! Depicts the agony of Christ for men ! Revives in " paraphrase " the dazzling " JOB , " And paints the Day ...
Pagina 54
... once tastes the blood Of man , insatiate , loathes all other food ; As if no sanguine carnage could allay That panting thirst , but reeking human prey . Such den of cannibals , unslaked and keen , Such 54 THE BARDIAD .
... once tastes the blood Of man , insatiate , loathes all other food ; As if no sanguine carnage could allay That panting thirst , but reeking human prey . Such den of cannibals , unslaked and keen , Such 54 THE BARDIAD .
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Amorites awful Bard beam beauty blast blessings Book of Job breast breath bright bursting Castle of Indolence CHARLOTTE SMITH charm Chaucer clouds critical dark death deep divine dread earth enchanting epic poetry Ettrick fairy fancy Fingal fire flower gales genius glow grief hand harmony harp hath heart heaven Hebrew Henriade Heshbon hill Hope king Knight's Tale language light lone Lord lyre melody mind Minstrel Moab moon mountain Muse nature never night numbers o'er Ossian pale Palemon passion Poem poetical Poetry Poets praise pride rapture reader rise rock round sacred scene seraphic Sihon sing smile soft song sorrow soul sound Spenser spirit stars storm strain sublime sweet taste tear tell thee thine thou shalt thought trembling unto verse voice wandering wave wild wind wings wretch
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Pagina 190 - The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty Go<J of Jacob : (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel...
Pagina 201 - Who can count the dust of Jacob, And the number of the fourth part of Israel ? Let me die the death of the righteous, And let my last end be like his...
Pagina 187 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar...
Pagina 176 - Less than a god they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so well. What passion cannot Music raise and quell?
Pagina 175 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.
Pagina 196 - See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me : I kill, and I make alive ; I wound, and I heal : neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
Pagina 190 - Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion. Who shall rouse him up? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Pagina 100 - But hark ! a rap comes gently to the door ; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad cam' o'er the moor, To do some errands, and convoy her hame. The wily mother sees the conscious flame Sparkle in Jenny's e'e, and flush her cheek ; With heart-struck anxious care, inquires his name, While Jenny hafflins is afraid to speak : Weel pleased the mother hears it's nae wild, worthless rake. Wi...
Pagina 136 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Pagina 194 - Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy. And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: Thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble. And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, The floods stood upright as a heap, And the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.