The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 23Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1819 |
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... mind and aid his restoration to health ; to yield him , whenever he chose them , most grateful intervals from his labo- rious studies , and enable him to return to them with redoubled vigour and delight . Had it not been for this most ...
... mind and aid his restoration to health ; to yield him , whenever he chose them , most grateful intervals from his labo- rious studies , and enable him to return to them with redoubled vigour and delight . Had it not been for this most ...
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... mind was capacious , his curiosity excur- sive , and his industry continual , his writings are very numerous , and his subjects various . With his theological works I am only enough acquainted to admire his meekness of opposition , and ...
... mind was capacious , his curiosity excur- sive , and his industry continual , his writings are very numerous , and his subjects various . With his theological works I am only enough acquainted to admire his meekness of opposition , and ...
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... mind , it is diffused over his works : under his direction it may be truly said , Theologie Philosophia ancillatur , philosophy is subservient to evangelical instruction : it is difficult to read a page without learning , or at least ...
... mind , it is diffused over his works : under his direction it may be truly said , Theologie Philosophia ancillatur , philosophy is subservient to evangelical instruction : it is difficult to read a page without learning , or at least ...
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... safely pleased : and happy will be that reader whose mind is dis- posed , by his verses or his prose , to copy his bene- volence to man , and his reverence to God . HORE LYRICÆ . VOL . XXHI PREFACE . It has LIFE OF WATTS . 11.
... safely pleased : and happy will be that reader whose mind is dis- posed , by his verses or his prose , to copy his bene- volence to man , and his reverence to God . HORE LYRICÆ . VOL . XXHI PREFACE . It has LIFE OF WATTS . 11.
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... minds raised near to Heaven in melody and devotion at once . In the younger days of heathenism the Muses were devoted to the same service : the language in which old Hesiod addresses them is this ; " Pierian Muses , fam'd for heavenly ...
... minds raised near to Heaven in melody and devotion at once . In the younger days of heathenism the Muses were devoted to the same service : the language in which old Hesiod addresses them is this ; " Pierian Muses , fam'd for heavenly ...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 27 Ezekiel Sanford,Robert Walsh, Jr. No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 379 - 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.
Page 377 - 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 378 - 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 ii - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Page 378 - And, though sometimes, each dreary pause between. Dejected Pity at his side Her soul-subduing voice applied, Yet still he kept his wild unalter'd mien, While each strain'd ball of sight seem'd bursting from his head.
Page 383 - No wither'd witch shall here be seen, No goblins lead their nightly crew ; The female fays shall haunt the green, And dress thy grave with pearly dew. The redbreast oft at evening hours Shall kindly lend his little aid, With hoary moss and gather'd flowers, To deck the ground where thou art laid.
Page 377 - tis said, when all were fired, Filled with fury, rapt, inspired, From the supporting myrtles round They snatched her instruments of sound...
Page 22 - Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou?
Page 380 - IN yonder grave a Druid lies, Where slowly winds the stealing wave ! The year's best sweets shall duteous rise, To deck its Poet's sylvan grave ! In yon deep bed of whispering reeds His airy harp* shall now be laid ; That he, whose heart in sorrow bleeds, May love through life the soothing shade.
Page 362 - 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.