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... Pindaric upon stilts , which one must be a better scholar than he is to understand a line of , and the very best scho- lars will understand but a little matter here and there . It wants but seventeen lines of having an end , I don't say ...
... Pindaric upon stilts , which one must be a better scholar than he is to understand a line of , and the very best scho- lars will understand but a little matter here and there . It wants but seventeen lines of having an end , I don't say ...
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... Pindaric . The town is an owl , if it don't like lady Mary ‡ and I am surprised at it : we here are owls enough to think her eclogues very bad ; but that I did not wonder at . Our present taste is sir T. Fitz - Osborne's Letters ...
... Pindaric . The town is an owl , if it don't like lady Mary ‡ and I am surprised at it : we here are owls enough to think her eclogues very bad ; but that I did not wonder at . Our present taste is sir T. Fitz - Osborne's Letters ...
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... Pindaric Ode LXXXIL LXXXIII . - · - - 220 - 223 To Mr. Walpole . - Remarks on Dodsley's Col- lection of Poems , and on several literary characters of the time , together with an ex- tract from a poem - 225 LXXXIV . To Dr. Wharton . - Of ...
... Pindaric Ode LXXXIL LXXXIII . - · - - 220 - 223 To Mr. Walpole . - Remarks on Dodsley's Col- lection of Poems , and on several literary characters of the time , together with an ex- tract from a poem - 225 LXXXIV . To Dr. Wharton . - Of ...
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... Pindaric method without its use ; though as he justly says , when formed in long stanzas , it does not fully succeed in point of effect on the ear : for there was nothing which he more disliked than that chain of irre- difficulty of ...
... Pindaric method without its use ; though as he justly says , when formed in long stanzas , it does not fully succeed in point of effect on the ear : for there was nothing which he more disliked than that chain of irre- difficulty of ...
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... Pindaric form into the English language , made use of the short stanzas which Mr Gray here recommends See his ode to the queen * Afterwards aud tor of excise . His friendship with Mr. Gray commenced at college , and continued till the ...
... Pindaric form into the English language , made use of the short stanzas which Mr Gray here recommends See his ode to the queen * Afterwards aud tor of excise . His friendship with Mr. Gray commenced at college , and continued till the ...
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Page 147 - And that so lamely and unfashionable, That dogs bark at me, as I halt by them...
Page 74 - I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation, that there was no restraining : Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry.
Page 74 - There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument. One need not have a very fantastic imagination to see spirits there at noon-day : You have Death perpetually before your eyes, only so far removed, as to compose the mind without frighting it.
Page 128 - I had discovered a thing very little known, which is, that in one's whole life one can never have any more than a single mother. You may think this is obvious, and (what you call) a trite observation. You are a green gosling ! I was at the same age (very near) as wise as you, and yet I never discovered this (with full evidence and conviction I mean) till it was too late. It is thirteen years ago, and seems but as yesterday, and every day I live it sinks deeper into my heart...
Page 197 - I shall continue good part of the summer); and having put an end to a thing, whose beginning you have seen long ago, I immediately send it you.* You will, I hope, look upon it in the light of a thing with an end to it ; a merit that most of my writings have wanted, and are like to want, but which this epistle I am determined shall not want, when it tells you that I am ever Yours.
Page 22 - My comfort amidst all this is", that i have, at the distance of half a mile, through a green lane, a forest (the vulgar call it a common) all my own, at least as good as so, for I spy no human thing in it but myself.
Page 10 - The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest. There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow : there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
Page 63 - ... almost perpendicular, at the bottom of which rolls a torrent, that sometimes tumbling among the fragments of stone that have fallen from on high, and sometimes precipitating itself down vast descents with a noise like thunder, which is still made greater by the echo from the mountains on each fide, concurs to form one of the most solemn, the most romantic, and the most astonishing scenes I ever beheld.
Page 5 - When you have seen one of my days, you have seen a whole year of my life ; they go round and round like the blind horse in the mill, only he has the satisfaction of fancying he makes a progress and gets some ground ; my eyes are open enough to see the same dull prospect, and to know that, having made four-and-twenty steps more, I shall be just where I was.
Page 203 - I have but one bad way left to escape the honour they would inflict upon me; and therefore am obliged to desire you would make Dodsley print it immediately (which may be done in less than a week's time) from your copy, but without my name, in what form is most convenient for him, but on his best paper and character; he must correct the press himself, and print it without any interval between the stanzas, because the sense is in some places continued beyond them ; and the title must be, — Elegy,...