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Page xxi
... fancy , the emergencies of his rhyme and rythm , and sometimes , as in blank verse , of his rythm only , will cause him to commit errors that would be without excuse in prose . But Mr. CAMP- BELL in his verse is so filled with merely ...
... fancy , the emergencies of his rhyme and rythm , and sometimes , as in blank verse , of his rythm only , will cause him to commit errors that would be without excuse in prose . But Mr. CAMP- BELL in his verse is so filled with merely ...
Page xxviii
... fancy , would be very little estimated . W. But you do not mean to undervalue the powers of the imagination ? A. Not when I assign them their due place . I think it could be easily proved , that of all the faculties that which WORDS ...
... fancy , would be very little estimated . W. But you do not mean to undervalue the powers of the imagination ? A. Not when I assign them their due place . I think it could be easily proved , that of all the faculties that which WORDS ...
Page xxix
... fancy full play , and you shall see . The labor of the latter is one of love , the former needs all your art , all the stores of wit you have gathered in all your life , to keep it from languishing . It is this which makes the ...
... fancy full play , and you shall see . The labor of the latter is one of love , the former needs all your art , all the stores of wit you have gathered in all your life , to keep it from languishing . It is this which makes the ...
Page xxxvi
... fancy life thus quit ! Lone deaths like these the bravest even fear . But , mid the battle's madd'ning strife , With thousands round to see us die , To hear with echoing swell on high , As drops the last sand of our life , The shouts ...
... fancy life thus quit ! Lone deaths like these the bravest even fear . But , mid the battle's madd'ning strife , With thousands round to see us die , To hear with echoing swell on high , As drops the last sand of our life , The shouts ...
Page xli
... fancy , and of a muse yet prac- tising her gamut . But you shake the head . W. I should not , if it were only to me that you talked in this fashion ; for with me it cannot harm you . But it is just so you discourse to the public ; and ...
... fancy , and of a muse yet prac- tising her gamut . But you shake the head . W. I should not , if it were only to me that you talked in this fashion ; for with me it cannot harm you . But it is just so you discourse to the public ; and ...
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accent admiration Æneid Æsop ALEXANDER POPE ARTHUR CARRYL bard beauty behold BIANCA BLANCHE blank verse breast brow cæsura CALAIS Canto cheek CLEON criticism dear delight Devil earth Eclogues English epigram Epistle eyes fancy fear feel FELIX fire flowers fool FROISSARD fustian gentle give grace hand heart Heaven hero hexameter JUVENAL king language LATIUM less light lips look look'd maid man's MDCCCXLI mean measure MELEAGER metre mind mix'd moral muse nature neath never o'er passion PEBBLE perhaps Petrarch pleasure poem poet poetry POPE reader rhyme rose round RUBETA rythm satire seem'd seen sense siege of CALAIS smile song soul sound SOUTHEY spirit spondee suppose sweet syllable taste tell thee thine things thou thought tion truth turn'd verse vex'd VIENNE Vision voice vulgar WALTER MANNY words WORDSWORTH write
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Page 304 - Mercator metuens, otium et oppidi Laudat rura sui : mox reficit rates Quassas, indocilis pauperiem pati. Est, qui nee veteris pocula Massici, Nee partem solido demere de die, Spernit ; nunc viridi membra sub arbuto Stratus, nunc ad aquae lene caput sacrae.
Page 308 - Heu quotiens fidem Mutatosque deos flebit et aspera Nigris aequora ventis Emirabitur insolens, Qui nunc te fruitur credulus aurea, Qui semper vacuam, semper amabilem Sperat nescius aurae Fallacis. Miseri, quibus Intemptata nites.
Page 312 - Arida nutrix. Pone me pigris ubi nulla campis Arbor aestiva recreatur aura, Quod latus mundi nebulae malusque luppiter urget ; 20 Pone sub curru nimium propinqui Solis in terra domibus negata : Dulce ridentem Lalagen amabo, Dulce loquentem.
Page 320 - Vulcanus ardens urit officinas. nunc decet aut viridi nitidum caput impedire myrto aut flore terrae quern ferunt solutae; nunc et in umbrosis Fauno decet immolare lucis, seu poscat agna sive malit haedo.
Page 122 - Needy Knife-grinder! whither are you going? Rough is the road, your Wheel is out of order — Bleak blows the blast; — your hat has got a hole in't, So have your breeches! 'Weary Knife-grinder! little think the proud ones, Who in their coaches roll along the turnpikeroad, what hard work 'tis crying all day "Knives and "Scissors to grind O!
Page 306 - Venator, tenerae conjugis immemor ; Seu visa est catulis cerva fidelibus, Seu rupit teretes Marsus aper plagas.
Page 241 - Archangel : but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd, and care Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows Of dauntless courage and considerate pride, Waiting revenge : cruel his eye, but cast Signs of remorse and passion to behold...
Page 310 - Sive facturus per inhospitalem Caucasum vel quae loca fabulosus Lambit Hydaspes. Namque me silva lupus in Sabina, Dum meam canto Lalagen et ultra...
Page 46 - And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent : and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail ; for the plagu e thereof was exceeding great.
Page 318 - Solvitur acris hiems grata vice veris et Favoni, trahuntque siccas machinae carinas, ac neque iam stabulis gaudet pecus aut arator igni, nec prata canis albicant pruinis.