The Task, Table Talk, and Other Poems: With Critical Observations of Various Authors on His Genius and Character, and Notes, Critical and Illustrative[A.S.] Barnes, 1856 - 435 pages |
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... charms , and is often the attribute of real genius . He was singularly calculated to excite emotions of esteem and love by those qualities that win confidence and inspire sympathy . In friendship he was uniformly faithful ; and , if the ...
... charms , and is often the attribute of real genius . He was singularly calculated to excite emotions of esteem and love by those qualities that win confidence and inspire sympathy . In friendship he was uniformly faithful ; and , if the ...
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... charm and excellence . They form a kind of biographical sketch , drawn by his own hand . His poetry proclaims the author ; his correspondence depicts the We see him in his walks , in the privacy of his study , in his daily occupations ...
... charm and excellence . They form a kind of biographical sketch , drawn by his own hand . His poetry proclaims the author ; his correspondence depicts the We see him in his walks , in the privacy of his study , in his daily occupations ...
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... charm for him . Poetry being essentially an imitative art , he who is no lover of nature loses all the finest subjects of imitation . On the contrary , this attachment , especially if he be of an ardent character , supplies subjects to ...
... charm for him . Poetry being essentially an imitative art , he who is no lover of nature loses all the finest subjects of imitation . On the contrary , this attachment , especially if he be of an ardent character , supplies subjects to ...
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... charm to his poetry , is the depth and ar- dor of his piety . It is impossible not to be aware of the severance which crit- ics have labored to effect between religion and poetry - between the character of the prophet and of the poet ...
... charm to his poetry , is the depth and ar- dor of his piety . It is impossible not to be aware of the severance which crit- ics have labored to effect between religion and poetry - between the character of the prophet and of the poet ...
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... charms . In all that he says . and does , there is a total absence of all plot and stratagem , of all pretensions to think profoundly or write finely ; though , without an effort , he does both . His manner is to invite you to walk ...
... charms . In all that he says . and does , there is a total absence of all plot and stratagem , of all pretensions to think profoundly or write finely ; though , without an effort , he does both . His manner is to invite you to walk ...
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Page 96 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Page 75 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Page 225 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 346 - But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
Page 138 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Page 11 - My panting side was charged, when I withdrew, To seek a tranquil death in distant shades.
Page 215 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Page 387 - Could time, his flight reversed, restore the hours, When playing with thy vesture's tissued flowers, The violet, the pink, and jessamine, I pricked them into paper with a pin, (And thou wast happier than myself the while, Wouldst softly speak, and stroke my head, and smile...
Page 327 - When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
Page 217 - Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.