The Poetical Works of Anna Seward: With Extracts from Her Literary Correspondence, Volumen3J. Ballantyne and Company, 1810 |
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... charms . But there are people of genius , who have fer- vent taste for lyric excellence , that consider poetry , divested of measure , as bombastic prose . Influenced by that prejudice , they perceive neither grandeur nor beauty in the ...
... charms . But there are people of genius , who have fer- vent taste for lyric excellence , that consider poetry , divested of measure , as bombastic prose . Influenced by that prejudice , they perceive neither grandeur nor beauty in the ...
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... charm'd soul return her morning years , Their transports heighten'd , and dispell'd their cares . Thus on the spirit Memory's local spell No time can weaken , and no change repel ; It melts the heart , and rushes through the brain ...
... charm'd soul return her morning years , Their transports heighten'd , and dispell'd their cares . Thus on the spirit Memory's local spell No time can weaken , and no change repel ; It melts the heart , and rushes through the brain ...
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... charms , A Russian maiden scorns me . III . On Norway's wintry mountains high My natal morn arose , 7 Whose sons can teach their shafts to fly , Unerring from their bows : But o'er the lone sea bends my course , The bounding ship I ...
... charms , A Russian maiden scorns me . III . On Norway's wintry mountains high My natal morn arose , 7 Whose sons can teach their shafts to fly , Unerring from their bows : But o'er the lone sea bends my course , The bounding ship I ...
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... charm boon Nature gave , No green field blossoms , and no hedge - rows wave ! On the dim waters nods the useless sail , And Eurus howls along the deluged vale . His reign usurp'd , since Time can ne'er restore , Indignant rising to ...
... charm boon Nature gave , No green field blossoms , and no hedge - rows wave ! On the dim waters nods the useless sail , And Eurus howls along the deluged vale . His reign usurp'd , since Time can ne'er restore , Indignant rising to ...
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... Charm'd when the summon'd train forsake their home , Grotesque and gay , to fleet beneath thy dome ; Could I , amid the jocund band , convene Youth , health , or spirit , to the glittering scene , Then should my pen thy flattering ...
... Charm'd when the summon'd train forsake their home , Grotesque and gay , to fleet beneath thy dome ; Could I , amid the jocund band , convene Youth , health , or spirit , to the glittering scene , Then should my pen thy flattering ...
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The Poetical Works of Anna Seward: With Extracts from Her Literary ..., Volumen3 Anna Seward Vista de fragmentos - 1974 |
The Poetical Works of Anna Seward: With Extracts from Her Literary ..., Volumen3 Anna Seward Vista de fragmentos - 1810 |
Términos y frases comunes
amid ANNA SEWARD ARGANTYR beauty bend beneath blest bloom bowers breast breath bright brow Charm'd charms clouds cold dark darken'd dear Deva e'en Eglwyseg EYAM eyes fair fame fate fires flood gale Genius gild gleams glide gloom glow golden grace heart HERVA hills hope Horace joys LADY ELEANOR BUTLER LICHFIELD Licinius life's light Llangollen lonely loud lustre lyre maid MARCHIONESS OF DONEGALL morn mourn Muse Naiad ne'er night numbers Nymph o'er pale Paraphrase plain Poem poet poetic pride proud resistless rise rising song rocks rose Rule Britannia scene scorn shade shalt shine shore sighs silent skies smile soft song SONNET soul spirit storms strains stream sullen sweet tears TELEPHUS tender TEUCER thee thine thou thro tomb vale vanish'd verse vex'd Vincent Bourne warm waves wild winds Winter Wrexham youth
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Página 78 - Ah me ! what hand can touch the strings so fine ? Who up the lofty diapason roll Such sweet, such sad, such solemn airs divine, Then let them down again into the soul...
Página 161 - I love to rise ere gleams the tardy light, Winter's pale dawn ; and as warm fires illume, And cheerful tapers shine around the room, Through misty windows bend my musing sight Where, round the dusky lawn, the mansions white, With shutters closed, peer faintly through the gloom, That slow recedes; while yon gray spires assume, Rising from their dark pile, an added height By indistinctness given.
Página 77 - In the elliptic arch of the door, there is a prismatic lantern of variously tinted glass, containing two large lamps with their reflectors. The light they shed resembles that of a volcano, gloomily glaring. Opposite, on the chimney-piece, a couple of small lamps, in marble reservoirs, assist the prismatic lantern to supply the place of candles, by a light more consonant to the style of the apartment, the pictures it contains of absent friends, and to its aerial music.
Página 114 - SONNET. SIDDONS! when first commenced thy ardent course, The Powers, that guard the Drama's awful shrineBeauty and grandeur, tenderness and force, Silence that speaks, and eloquence divine — For thee erected that approachless throne None may or hope to conquer or to share ; And all our subject passions trembling own Each various sense subdued and captive there. Yet the heart says, " Respect a rival claim, A claim that rises in unvanquish'd strife : Behold ! dividing still the palm of fame, Her...
Página 192 - While summer roses all their glory yield To crown the votary of love and joy, Misfortune's victim hails, with many a sigh, Thee, scarlet Poppy of the pathless field, Gaudy, yet wild and lone; no leaf to shield Thy flaccid vest, that, as the gale blows high, Flaps, and alternate folds around thy head. — So stands in the long grass a...
Página 224 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease...
Página 309 - Her bloom was like the springing flower, That sips the silver dew; The rose was budded in her cheek, Just opening to the view.
Página 366 - The Grave of Youth. WHEN life is hurried to untimely close, In the years of crystal eyes and burnish'd hair, Dire are the thoughts of death ; — eternal parting From all the precious soul's yet known delights, All she had clung to here ; — from youth and hope, And the year's blossom'd April ; — bounding strength, Which had out-leap'd the roes, when morning suns Yellow'd their...
Página 91 - Mid the forest's inmost gloom, Thy daughter, circling thrice thy tomb, With mystic rites of thrilling power Disturbs thee at this midnight hour I I, thy Sauferlama's child, Of my filial right beguil'd, Now adjure thee to resign The charmed Sword by birth-right mine ! When the Dwarf on Eyvor's plain, Dim glided by thy marriage-train, In jewel'd belt of gorgeous pride, To thy pale and trembling bride, Gave he not, in whisper deep, That dread companion...
Página 3 - The ancient custom of hanging a garland of white roses made of writing paper, and a pair of white gloves, over the pew of the unmarried villagers who die in the flower of their age, prevails to this day in the village of Eyam, and in most other villages and little towns in the Peak.