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... poets were permitted and even encouraged to ridicule them on the public stage . Those who had just been amused with the wit and satire of Aristophanes must have worshipped with but little sincerity beings that had lately and been the ...
... poets were permitted and even encouraged to ridicule them on the public stage . Those who had just been amused with the wit and satire of Aristophanes must have worshipped with but little sincerity beings that had lately and been the ...
Page 87
... poet . Neither do we think that the " severe and stinging re- proach " which the wicked experience , does " amply supply the chastisement of the cheated laws . " - To themselves , indeed , it may ; but what is the effect on the practice ...
... poet . Neither do we think that the " severe and stinging re- proach " which the wicked experience , does " amply supply the chastisement of the cheated laws . " - To themselves , indeed , it may ; but what is the effect on the practice ...
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... poet undertakes no easy task . In fact , unless he possesses the power to conceive and present his subject in a poetical light , an imagination sufficiently quick and luxuriant to make the best advantage of every opportunity to ...
... poet undertakes no easy task . In fact , unless he possesses the power to conceive and present his subject in a poetical light , an imagination sufficiently quick and luxuriant to make the best advantage of every opportunity to ...
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... poet is not necessarily confined to those strict niceties of grammar which the different construction of a dead language required an ancient to observe ; and though , again , eminent beauties may sometimes be obtained in ours by their ...
... poet is not necessarily confined to those strict niceties of grammar which the different construction of a dead language required an ancient to observe ; and though , again , eminent beauties may sometimes be obtained in ours by their ...
Page 111
... the " World before the Flood , " we recurred , as our readers probably will , to the only poet who has succeeded in filling up the outline of scripture truth with the shading and colouring Montgomery's World before the Flood . 111.
... the " World before the Flood , " we recurred , as our readers probably will , to the only poet who has succeeded in filling up the outline of scripture truth with the shading and colouring Montgomery's World before the Flood . 111.
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Page 135 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress...
Page 137 - The Mind, that broods o'er guilty woes, Is like the Scorpion girt by fire, In circle narrowing as it glows, The flames around their captive close, Till inly...
Page 151 - I have great love and regard towards you; and desire to win and gain your love and friendship, by a kind, just and peaceable life...
Page 85 - For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. for there are no bands in their death : but their strength is firm. They are not in trouble as other men , neither are they plagued like other men.
Page 151 - God do to us, who hath made us, not to devour and destroy one another, but to live soberly and kindly together in the world.
Page 138 - Can this with faded pinion soar From rose to tulip as before? Or Beauty, blighted in an hour, Find joy within her broken bower ? No: gayer insects fluttering by !Ne'er droop the wing o'er those that die, And lovelier things have mercy shown To every failing but their own, And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame.
Page 136 - As if to him it could impart The doom he dreads, yet dwells upon ; Yes, but for these and these alone, Some moments, ay, one treacherous hour, He still might doubt the tyrant's power ; So fair, so calm, so softly sealed, The first, last look, by death revealed ! Such is the aspect of this shore ; 'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more ! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there.
Page 92 - But though the ancients thus their rules invade, (As kings dispense with laws themselves have made,) Moderns, beware! or if you must offend Against the precept, ne'er transgress its end; Let it be seldom, and compelled by need; And have, at least, their precedent to plead.
Page 136 - Appals the gazing mourner's heart, As if to him it could impart The doom he dreads, yet dwells upon ; Yes, but for these, and these alone, Some moments, ay, one treacherous hour, He still might doubt the tyrant's power; So fair, so calm, so softly sealed, The first, last look by death revealed...
Page 465 - The fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flamed ; This more delusive, not the touch, but taste Deceived ; they, fondly thinking to allay Their appetite with gust, instead of fruit Chew'd bitter ashes, which the offended taste With spattering noise rejected : oft they...