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Pagina 12
... pleasing as thy bleft return . That phrafe hot glances is the finest representation of the Greek expreflion pinas nexe , that I know in our language . Milton comes near it , Comus , ver . 80 . Swift , as the sparkle of a glancing star ...
... pleasing as thy bleft return . That phrafe hot glances is the finest representation of the Greek expreflion pinas nexe , that I know in our language . Milton comes near it , Comus , ver . 80 . Swift , as the sparkle of a glancing star ...
Pagina 57
... If chryftal streams " with pleasing murmurs creep , " The reader's threaten'd , not in vain , with " fleep . " Thus Garth , in the earlier editions of the Dispensary : Soon Soon as with gentle fighs the ev'ning breeze Begun to ON POPE . 57.
... If chryftal streams " with pleasing murmurs creep , " The reader's threaten'd , not in vain , with " fleep . " Thus Garth , in the earlier editions of the Dispensary : Soon Soon as with gentle fighs the ev'ning breeze Begun to ON POPE . 57.
Pagina 62
... pleasing allufion to the longevity of the Antediluvians , as recorded in the book of Genefis . Ver . 498. Like fome fair flow'r the early fpring fupplies , That gaily blooms , but ev'n in blooming dies . Dryden's elegy on the death of ...
... pleasing allufion to the longevity of the Antediluvians , as recorded in the book of Genefis . Ver . 498. Like fome fair flow'r the early fpring fupplies , That gaily blooms , but ev'n in blooming dies . Dryden's elegy on the death of ...
Pagina 108
... pleasing than the brightest day , When fancy gives what absence takes away ; And drefs'd in all its vifionary charms , Reftores my fair deserter to my arms . Ver . 230. How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight . So Dryden's version of ...
... pleasing than the brightest day , When fancy gives what absence takes away ; And drefs'd in all its vifionary charms , Reftores my fair deserter to my arms . Ver . 230. How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight . So Dryden's version of ...
Pagina 109
... pleasing phantom curse . Ver . 253. Still as the fea ere winds were taught to blow , Or moving spirit bade the waters flow : Soft as the flumbers of a faint forgiv'n , And mild as opening gleams of promis'd heav'n . A fine improvement ...
... pleasing phantom curse . Ver . 253. Still as the fea ere winds were taught to blow , Or moving spirit bade the waters flow : Soft as the flumbers of a faint forgiv'n , And mild as opening gleams of promis'd heav'n . A fine improvement ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 215 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name...
Pagina 265 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Pagina 226 - Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
Pagina 279 - This pencil take (she said) whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine, too, these golden keys, immortal Boy ! This can unlock the gates of Joy ; Of Horror that, and thrilling Fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears.
Pagina 195 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to shun, That more than heaven pursue.
Pagina 51 - Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all. Thus when we view some well-proportion'd dome, (The world's just wonder, and ev'n thine, O Rome!) No single parts unequally surprise, All comes united to th' admiring eyes; No monstrous height, or breadth or length appear; The whole at once is bold and regular.
Pagina 161 - Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and agonize at ev'ry pore? Or quick effluvia darting thro' the brain, Die of a rose in aromatic pain?
Pagina 14 - Daughters; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Pagina 286 - Near these a Nursery erects its head. Where queens are form'd, and future heroes bred ; Where unfledg'd actors learn to laugh and cry, Where infant punks their tender voices try, And little Maximins the gods defy.
Pagina 320 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom...