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Page xii
... senses as fatigue , that skies are ever blackened , and that flowers ever fade . Accordingly W- sat awhile in silence ; and the first remark that opened our dialogue was suggested by the scene before him . W. What an evening , ERNEST ...
... senses as fatigue , that skies are ever blackened , and that flowers ever fade . Accordingly W- sat awhile in silence ; and the first remark that opened our dialogue was suggested by the scene before him . W. What an evening , ERNEST ...
Page xvi
... sense . W. Very good ; but you should then have the people more virtuous than their haranguer ; for you may depend upon it , that those will shout the loudest , that have least of sympathy with what the orator affects to be his feelings ...
... sense . W. Very good ; but you should then have the people more virtuous than their haranguer ; for you may depend upon it , that those will shout the loudest , that have least of sympathy with what the orator affects to be his feelings ...
Page xix
... sense , or , what is as mean if not as bad , but echoes public outcry . Yet , while ENGLAND is indulging , on all occasions , in this outcry , against one of the best men , as well as most able , that wear a crown , INDIA , won by ...
... sense , or , what is as mean if not as bad , but echoes public outcry . Yet , while ENGLAND is indulging , on all occasions , in this outcry , against one of the best men , as well as most able , that wear a crown , INDIA , won by ...
Page xxiii
... sense , and given his sentences the turn and lightness of a school - boy's , had critics done their duty ? W. I believe that you are right . Yet CAMPBELL may have been incapable ... A. Of what ? Of seeing these faults ? Do not think it ...
... sense , and given his sentences the turn and lightness of a school - boy's , had critics done their duty ? W. I believe that you are right . Yet CAMPBELL may have been incapable ... A. Of what ? Of seeing these faults ? Do not think it ...
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... sense . But your speaking of imagination leads me to notice another mis- take into which people have fallen through the misguidance of false critics . The world in general has very little idea of the real merit of a poet as tested by ...
... sense . But your speaking of imagination leads me to notice another mis- take into which people have fallen through the misguidance of false critics . The world in general has very little idea of the real merit of a poet as tested by ...
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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.