The Works of Thomas Gray ...: Letters. Criticisms on architecture and paintingW. Pickering, 1835 |
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... tastes for all the world like chopped hay , or rather like chopped logick ; for he has a violent affection to that art , being in some sort his own invention ; so that he often loses himself in little trifling dis- tinctions and verbal ...
... tastes for all the world like chopped hay , or rather like chopped logick ; for he has a violent affection to that art , being in some sort his own invention ; so that he often loses himself in little trifling dis- tinctions and verbal ...
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... taste , that this frippery mode of composition will never come into fashion again ; especially since Dr. Hurd has pointed out , by example as well as precept , wherein the true beauty of Dialogue - writing consists.- Mason . Walpole's ...
... taste , that this frippery mode of composition will never come into fashion again ; especially since Dr. Hurd has pointed out , by example as well as precept , wherein the true beauty of Dialogue - writing consists.- Mason . Walpole's ...
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... taste in these mat- ters , as , if I could shew them to you , would make you laugh , even though you had a moderate fit of the colic upon you . But this between ourselves , for this is the Esoteric Doctrine , which I shall communicate ...
... taste in these mat- ters , as , if I could shew them to you , would make you laugh , even though you had a moderate fit of the colic upon you . But this between ourselves , for this is the Esoteric Doctrine , which I shall communicate ...
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... taste is Sir T. Fitz - Os- borne's Letters . : I send you a bit of a thing for two reasons ; first , because it is of one of your favourites , Mr. M. Green and next , because I would do justice . The thought on which my second Ode ...
... taste is Sir T. Fitz - Os- borne's Letters . : I send you a bit of a thing for two reasons ; first , because it is of one of your favourites , Mr. M. Green and next , because I would do justice . The thought on which my second Ode ...
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... taste or attention . He intro- duced a mixed style , which now goes by the name of the Battey - Langley manner . He is an ar- chitect , that has published a book of bad designs ; if you have seen Mr. Walpole's , pray let me hear your ...
... taste or attention . He intro- duced a mixed style , which now goes by the name of the Battey - Langley manner . He is an ar- chitect , that has published a book of bad designs ; if you have seen Mr. Walpole's , pray let me hear your ...
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Page 139 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Page 140 - Edward, lo! to sudden fate (Weave we the woof; The thread is spun;) Half of thy heart we consecrate. (The web is wove; The work is done.) — Stay, oh stay!
Page 139 - Fill high the sparkling bowl, The rich repast prepare; Reft of a crown, he yet may share the feast: Close by the regal chair Fell Thirst and Famine scowl A baleful smile upon their baffled guest. Heard ye the din of battle bray, Lance to lance, and horse to horse ? Long years of havock urge their destined course, And thro' the kindred squadrons mow their way.
Page 138 - Give ample room, and verge enough The characters of hell to* trace. Mark the year, and mark the night, When Severn shall re-echo with affright The shrieks of death, thro...
Page 25 - And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i...
Page 140 - What strings symphonious tremble in the air. What strains of vocal transport round her play ? Hear from the grave, great Taliessin, hear : They breathe a soul to animate thy clay.
Page 246 - Did you never observe (while rocking winds are piping loud) that pause, as the gust is recollecting itself, and rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an ^Eolian harp ? I do assure you there is nothing in the world so like the voice of a spirit.
Page 141 - Fond impious Man, think'st thou yon sanguine cloud Rais'd by thy breath, has quench'd the Orb of day? To-morrow he repairs the golden flood, And warms the nations with redoubled ray. Enough for me: With joy I see The different doom our Fates assign : Be thine Despair and scept'red Care ; To triumph and to die are mine.
Page 189 - Nevertheless I interest myself a little in the history of it, and rather wish somebody may accept it that will retrieve the credit of the thing, if it be retrievable, or ever had any credit.
Page 255 - Dr. * * (one of its nuisances) is not expected here again in a hurry. He is gone to his grave with five fine mackerel (large and full of roe) in his belly. He eat them all at one dinner; but his fate was a turbot on Trinity Sunday, of which he left little for the company besides bones. He had not been...