The Poetical Works of Mr. William CollinsT. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1802 - 124 pages |
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... Authors , has cul- tivated the Lyric Muse with peculiar felicity ; his works are small in bulk , but highly finished ; and have deservedly gained him a respectable rank amongst qur minor Poets . His characteristics are tenderness ...
... Authors , has cul- tivated the Lyric Muse with peculiar felicity ; his works are small in bulk , but highly finished ; and have deservedly gained him a respectable rank amongst qur minor Poets . His characteristics are tenderness ...
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... author's productions . As the subject is historical , rather than fanciful , it has less of the peculiar manner of COLLINS than any other of his Poems . In a slight , but neatly executed sketch , he traces the state of the Drama through ...
... author's productions . As the subject is historical , rather than fanciful , it has less of the peculiar manner of COLLINS than any other of his Poems . In a slight , but neatly executed sketch , he traces the state of the Drama through ...
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... author has en- deavoured to throw interest and variety into this ele- gant species of composition , by introducing the man- ners , and especially the appropriate scenery of other countries . The attempt was laudable , and the effect ...
... author has en- deavoured to throw interest and variety into this ele- gant species of composition , by introducing the man- ners , and especially the appropriate scenery of other countries . The attempt was laudable , and the effect ...
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... Author was this , that true Poetry being a representation of Na- ture , must have its archetype in those ideas of the Supreme Mind , which originally gave birth to Na- ture ; and therefore , that no one should attempt it without being ...
... Author was this , that true Poetry being a representation of Na- ture , must have its archetype in those ideas of the Supreme Mind , which originally gave birth to Na- ture ; and therefore , that no one should attempt it without being ...
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... Author concludes with expres → sing his despair of fulfilling , or seeing fulfilled by any future Poet , that high idea of the poetical cha- racter which he has been impressing on the mind . The ODE ON THE DEATH of COLONEL ROSS , is in ...
... Author concludes with expres → sing his despair of fulfilling , or seeing fulfilled by any future Poet , that high idea of the poetical cha- racter which he has been impressing on the mind . The ODE ON THE DEATH of COLONEL ROSS , is in ...
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Page 99 - To fair Fidele's grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring Each opening sweet of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing spring. No wailing ghost shall dare appear To vex with shrieks this quiet grove: But shepherd lads assemble here, And melting virgins own their love. No...
Page 82 - He threw his blood-stain'd sword, in thunder, down ; And, with a withering look, The war-denouncing trumpet took, And blew a blast so loud and dread, Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe...
Page 79 - When Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft, to hear her shell, Throng'd around her magic cell...
Page 9 - Or moss-crowned fountains mitigate the day, In vain ye hope the green delights to know, Which plains more blest or verdant vales bestow ; Here rocks alone, and tasteless sands are found, And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around. Sad was the hour, and luckless was the day, When first from Schiraz
Page 46 - How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
Page 66 - O'erhang his wavy bed, Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn...
Page 67 - Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises, 'midst the twilight path Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum: Now teach me, maid composed, To breathe some softened strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit...
Page 81 - twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure? Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail...
Page 83 - Pour'd through the mellow horn her pensive soul: And dashing soft from rocks around Bubbling runnels join'd the sound; Through glades and glooms the mingled measure stole, Or, o'er some haunted stream, with fond delay, Round an holy calm diffusing, Love of peace, and lonely musing, In hollow murmurs died away.
Page 86 - Love framed with Mirth a gay fantastic round ; Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound : And he, amidst his frolic play, As if he would the charming air repay, Shook thousand odours from his dewy wings. O Music ! sphere-descended maid, Friend of Pleasure, Wisdom's aid, Why, Goddess! why, to us denied, Lay'st thou thy ancient lyre aside...