Letters ... written between the years 1784 and 1807 [ed. by A. Constable].1811 |
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... critical abilities ! I could easily alter the line you object to in the 10th , as obscure , Speaking of post - horses , " While smites the lash , the steely torments goad . " 1 Thus , " Beneath a load Their fainting strength is LETTER ...
... critical abilities ! I could easily alter the line you object to in the 10th , as obscure , Speaking of post - horses , " While smites the lash , the steely torments goad . " 1 Thus , " Beneath a load Their fainting strength is LETTER ...
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... critical Cerberuses , that it may echo their barkings , vain are the hopes of poetic genius to meet its applause . Jephson ! the fate of thy three last admirable tragedies , -the Law of Lom- bardy , the Count of Narbonne , and Julia ...
... critical Cerberuses , that it may echo their barkings , vain are the hopes of poetic genius to meet its applause . Jephson ! the fate of thy three last admirable tragedies , -the Law of Lom- bardy , the Count of Narbonne , and Julia ...
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... critical brethren in that volume ? I must either blush for your partiality , or lour over the sarcasm of mock - compliment . It shall be the first ; for my spirit , liking summer better than winter , prefers the glow to the cloud . I am ...
... critical brethren in that volume ? I must either blush for your partiality , or lour over the sarcasm of mock - compliment . It shall be the first ; for my spirit , liking summer better than winter , prefers the glow to the cloud . I am ...
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... call feeling , as a critical criterion . Mr Hardinge , perhaps , detests a particular mode of expression ; Mr Hayley thinks it charming - yet Mr Hardinge says , there is no reasoning upon these matters , 156 LETTER XXXV .
... call feeling , as a critical criterion . Mr Hardinge , perhaps , detests a particular mode of expression ; Mr Hayley thinks it charming - yet Mr Hardinge says , there is no reasoning upon these matters , 156 LETTER XXXV .
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... critical investigation , the purposed atonement forms the greater sin . Yours , very faithfully . LETTER XXXIX . GEORGE HARDINGE , ESO . Lichfield , Oct. 10 , 1788 . I AM not inexorable , nor so arrogant , as to think lightly of any ...
... critical investigation , the purposed atonement forms the greater sin . Yours , very faithfully . LETTER XXXIX . GEORGE HARDINGE , ESO . Lichfield , Oct. 10 , 1788 . I AM not inexorable , nor so arrogant , as to think lightly of any ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Adieu admired amidst appears bard beautiful blank verse Cary charming compositions confess critical dear delight Dr Johnson Dryden Eartham elegance Eloisa to Abelard eloquence Epic Poetry excellence express Eyam fame fancy father favour feel genius Gentleman's Magazine give glow grace gratified Gray happiness Hayley Hayley's heart HERBERT CROFT honour hope ideas imagination ingenious interest Italian poetry Johnson Knowles Lady language late leisure less LETTER Lichfield literary living Lucy Porter Lycidas lyric Milton mind Miss Monody muse nature never numbers opinion passages Petrarch Pindar Piozzi pleasure poem poet poetic poetry Pope powers praise present prose recollect rhyme Shakespeare shew sister Solihul sonnet Sophia speak spirit style sublime superior sure sweet talents taste thing thou tion verse vulgarism Weston Whalley WILLIAM HAYLEY wish wonder word writings youth
Pasajes populares
Página 128 - So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Página 303 - LAWRENCE ! of virtuous father virtuous son, Now that the fields are dank, and ways are mire, Where shall we sometimes meet, and by the fire Help waste a sullen day, what may be won From the hard season gaining ? Time will run On smoother, till Favonius re-inspire The frozen earth, and clothe in fresh attire The lily' and rose, that neither sow'd nor spun.
Página 162 - Tis night, and the landscape is lovely no more ; I mourn, but, ye woodlands, I mourn not for you ; For morn is approaching, your charms to restore, Perfumed with fresh fragrance, and glittering with dew: Nor yet for the ravage of winter I mourn ; Kind nature the embryo blossom will save. But when shall spring visit the mouldering urn ! O, when shall it dawn on the night of the grave...
Página 267 - For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat. Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat. These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain, These goods He grants, who grants the power to gain ; With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find.
Página 346 - imp their eagle wings," a delighted spectator and auditor of their efforts. It was here, that Miss Molly Aston was frequently a visitor in the family of her brother-in-law, and probably amused herself with the uncouth adorations of the...
Página 321 - So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Página 103 - Johnson had always a metaphysic passion for one princess or other: first, the rustic Lucy Porter, before he married her nauseous mother; next, the handsome, but haughty, Molly Aston; next, the sublimated, methodistic, Hill Boothby, who read her bible in Hebrew; and, lastly, the more charming Mrs. Thrale, with the beauty of the first, the learning of the second, and with more worth than a bushel of such sinners and such saints. It is ridiculously diverting to see the old elephant forsaking his nature...
Página 303 - The lily and rose, that neither sowed nor spun. What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste, with wine, whence we may rise. To hear the lute well touched, or artful voice Warble immortal notes and Tuscan air ? He who of those delights can judge, and spare To interpose them oft, is not unwise.
Página 103 - This last and long-enduring passion for Mrs. Thrale was, however, composed equally, perhaps, of cupboard love, Platonic love, and vanity tickled and gratified, from morn to night, by incessant homage. The two first ingredients are certainly oddly heterogeneous ; but Johnson, in religion and politics, in love and in hatred, was composed of such opposite and contradictory materials, as never before met in the human mind. This is the reason why folk are never weary of talking, reading, and writing about...
Página 58 - Shocked at the unfeeling rudeness he thus recorded of himself, I replied, that I was surprised any person should obtrude their writings upon his attention; adding, that if I could write as well as Milton or Gray, I should think the best fate to be desired for my compositions was exemption from his notice. I expected a sharp sarcasm in return, but he only rolled his large head in silence. Johnson told me once, " he would hang a dog that read the ' Lycidas