| Daniel Webb - 1761 - 354 pages
...; then the ihrouds drop ; "^he downy feather on the cordage hung, .Moves not ; the flat fea fhines like yellow gold Fus'd in the fire, or like the marble...Of fome old temple, wide. IT is evident, that the poet.ftudied the effect in thefe verfes •, but he has foftened 'his artifice by the fimplicity of... | |
| John Dyer - 1761 - 196 pages
...fleeps : then the flirouds drop ; The downy feather, on the cordage hung, Moves not ; the flat fealhines like yellow gold, Fus'd in the fire ; or like the marble floor Of fome old temple wide. But where fo wide, In old or later time, its marble floor Did ever temple boaft as this, which here... | |
| SEVERAL HANDS - 1762 - 536 pages
...drop } The downy feather on the cordage hung, Moves no: ; the fiat fea mines like yellow gold l'u A! in the fire, or like the marble floor Of fome old...evident that the Poet ftudied the effect in thefe Verfes J but he has foftcned his artifice by the fimplicity of his lzn-> guage : had it not been for this,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 410 pages
...fleeps i then the fhrouds drop.; The downy feather, on the cordage hung, Moves not; the flat fca mines like yellow gold, Fus'd in the fire ; or like the marble floor Of fome old temple wide. But where fo wide, . In old or later time, its marble floor Did ever temple boaft as this, which here... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 368 pages
...drop -, The downy .feather, on the cordage hung, Moves not ; the flat fea fhines like yeliow'gold, Fus'd in the fire ; or like the marble floor Of fome old temple wide. But where fo wide, In old or later time, its marble floor , I Did ever temple boaft as this, which... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1787 - 482 pages
...fleeps; then the fhrouds diop; . The downy feather, on the cordage hung, Moves not ; the flat fea fhines like yellow gold Fus'd in the fire, or like the marble floor Of fome old temple wide. THE third fet of objects, which I mentioned the found of words as capable of reprefenting, confifts... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 270 pages
...fleeps: then the fhrouds drop; The downy feather, on the cordage hung, Moves not ; the flat fea mines like yellow gold, Fus'd in the fire; or like the marble floor Of fome old temple wide. But where fo wide. In old or later time, its marble floor Did Did ever temple boaft as this, which... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 512 pages
...ileeps : then the fnrouds drop ; The downy feather, on the cordage hung, Moves not ; the flat fea mines like yellow gold, Fus'd in the fire ; or like the marble floor Of fome old temple wide. But where fo wide, In old or later time, its marble floor Did ever temple boaft as this, which here... | |
| 1801 - 446 pages
...sleeps: then the shrouds drop; The downy feather on the cordage hung Moves not — the flat sea shines like yellow gold Fus'd in the fire, or like the marble floor Of some old temple wide! ANOB. Upon this beach King Charles the Second landed on the i6th May, 1660, about... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1802 - 416 pages
...; then -the ftirouds drop ; The downy feather, on the cordage hung, Moves not ; the flat tea fhines like yellow gold Fus'd in the fire, or like the marble floor Of foroe old temple wide.. The third fet of objects which I mentioned the founds of •words are capable... | |
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