Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, PopeCassell, 1892 - 192 pagina's |
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Pagina 38
... weight made steadfast and immovable , Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold , And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart . Give 38 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... weight made steadfast and immovable , Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold , And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart . Give 38 LIVES OF THE POETS .
Pagina 39
... Give me thy hand , and let me hear thy voice ; Nay , quickly speak to me , and let me hear Thy voice - my own affrights me with its echoes . He who reads these lines enjoys for a moment the powers of a poet ; he feels what he remembers ...
... Give me thy hand , and let me hear thy voice ; Nay , quickly speak to me , and let me hear Thy voice - my own affrights me with its echoes . He who reads these lines enjoys for a moment the powers of a poet ; he feels what he remembers ...
Pagina 44
... give way to merri- ment ; the idle and the illiterate will long shelter them- selves under this foolish apophthegm . Whether he rested satisfied with this direction , or sought for better , he commenced physician , and obtained high ...
... give way to merri- ment ; the idle and the illiterate will long shelter them- selves under this foolish apophthegm . Whether he rested satisfied with this direction , or sought for better , he commenced physician , and obtained high ...
Pagina 48
... give more instruction , he again wrote a poem of " Advice to a Weaver of Tapestry . " Steele was then publishing the Tatler , and , looking round him for something at which he might laugh , unluckily alighted on Sir Richard's work , and ...
... give more instruction , he again wrote a poem of " Advice to a Weaver of Tapestry . " Steele was then publishing the Tatler , and , looking round him for something at which he might laugh , unluckily alighted on Sir Richard's work , and ...
Pagina 56
... give a critical account . I have been told that there is something in them of vexation and discontent , discovered by a per- petual attempt to degrade physic from its sublimity , and to represent it as attainable without much previous ...
... give a critical account . I have been told that there is something in them of vexation and discontent , discovered by a per- petual attempt to degrade physic from its sublimity , and to represent it as attainable without much previous ...
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Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope Samuel Johnson Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2019 |
Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope Samuel Johnson Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2019 |
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