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Page xi
... never looked more lovely . The pur- ple gilia was in bloom , the delicate schizanthus with its jagged flowers , the copper - colored streptanthera , the irritable mimu- b xii THE BACKSIDES OF AN AMERICAN CITY . lus ,
... never looked more lovely . The pur- ple gilia was in bloom , the delicate schizanthus with its jagged flowers , the copper - colored streptanthera , the irritable mimu- b xii THE BACKSIDES OF AN AMERICAN CITY . lus ,
Page xiv
... never have doubted , from my own feelings , that Lord BYRON was driven to his defiance of decency , by his hatred of hypocrisy . W. But would you have one , then , neglect such sentiments , or confine them to his breast ? for I do you ...
... never have doubted , from my own feelings , that Lord BYRON was driven to his defiance of decency , by his hatred of hypocrisy . W. But would you have one , then , neglect such sentiments , or confine them to his breast ? for I do you ...
Page xv
... never be adopted . Hypocrisy has too much weight , that it should not be thrown into the scale whenever a character is brought to market . As long , for instance , as a man is counted modest , who tells his readers , in the preface of a ...
... never be adopted . Hypocrisy has too much weight , that it should not be thrown into the scale whenever a character is brought to market . As long , for instance , as a man is counted modest , who tells his readers , in the preface of a ...
Page xxi
... never called him correct . At some future day , I will run over with you the Pleasures of Hope , and I will show you , that , besides other occasional faults , such as confused or inapplicable imagery , strained , or common - place , or ...
... never called him correct . At some future day , I will run over with you the Pleasures of Hope , and I will show you , that , besides other occasional faults , such as confused or inapplicable imagery , strained , or common - place , or ...
Page xxiii
... never indeed become a great writer ; for it is not in him . Neither is he a great poet . But he is a polished and an elegant poet , and he certainly could have applied the file to his prose . W. But you have just said , that the ...
... never indeed become a great writer ; for it is not in him . Neither is he a great poet . But he is a polished and an elegant poet , and he certainly could have applied the file to his prose . W. But you have just said , that the ...
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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.