The Literary Women of England: Including a Biographical Epitome of All the Most Eminent to the Year 1700; and Sketches of the Poetesses to the Year 1850; with Extracts from Their Works, and Critical RemarksSaunders, Otley, 1861 - 564 pages |
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Page 35
... scenes severally familiar to their eyes . Where light- ning has once struck , it is apt to strike again ; where ... scene , the rivers , the sky , the air , seem all whispering incentives to be good and to be great , to be good and ...
... scenes severally familiar to their eyes . Where light- ning has once struck , it is apt to strike again ; where ... scene , the rivers , the sky , the air , seem all whispering incentives to be good and to be great , to be good and ...
Page 47
... scene 1 . WARTON , in a note to the 58th section of his ' History of English Poetry , ' brings various authorities to prove that in the latter part of the sixteenth century female writers of poetry had become numerous , and among them ...
... scene 1 . WARTON , in a note to the 58th section of his ' History of English Poetry , ' brings various authorities to prove that in the latter part of the sixteenth century female writers of poetry had become numerous , and among them ...
Page 123
... scenes of herds and flocks , And fruitful plains and barren rocks , Of shallow brooks that flow'd so clear , The ... scene then changed , with bold erected look Our martial king the fight with rev'rence strook ; For , not content t ...
... scenes of herds and flocks , And fruitful plains and barren rocks , Of shallow brooks that flow'd so clear , The ... scene then changed , with bold erected look Our martial king the fight with rev'rence strook ; For , not content t ...
Page 145
... scenes of heaven he sets in view , And tells me that no other joys are true . But love , fond love , would yet resist his power , Would fain awhile defer the parting hour . He brings thy mourning image to my eyes , And would obstruct my ...
... scenes of heaven he sets in view , And tells me that no other joys are true . But love , fond love , would yet resist his power , Would fain awhile defer the parting hour . He brings thy mourning image to my eyes , And would obstruct my ...
Page 147
... scene , must inevitably excite disgust . 6 Any one accustomed to contemplate rural nature under the shades of night , in stillness and in solitude , must be struck with surprise and won to sympathy by the en- chanting reproduction of ...
... scene , must inevitably excite disgust . 6 Any one accustomed to contemplate rural nature under the shades of night , in stillness and in solitude , must be struck with surprise and won to sympathy by the en- chanting reproduction of ...
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