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Página 97
... gave vent to his indignation against his opponents in a stinging satire , The Legion Club . The poem was scarcely finished when he was seized with a severe attack of giddiness to which he was subject , and he never afterwards deemed it ...
... gave vent to his indignation against his opponents in a stinging satire , The Legion Club . The poem was scarcely finished when he was seized with a severe attack of giddiness to which he was subject , and he never afterwards deemed it ...
Página 98
... gave way , he was hardly ever free from suffer- ing ; and it was his custom to pray every morning that he might not live another day ; and often when he parted at night with his most intimate friends , he would say with a sigh , " I ...
... gave way , he was hardly ever free from suffer- ing ; and it was his custom to pray every morning that he might not live another day ; and often when he parted at night with his most intimate friends , he would say with a sigh , " I ...
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... gave as a subject for an exercise the explanation of the 104th Psalm . Thomson produced a paraphrase and illus- tration of the subject as was required , but his language was so highly poetical and his style so figurative that the ...
... gave as a subject for an exercise the explanation of the 104th Psalm . Thomson produced a paraphrase and illus- tration of the subject as was required , but his language was so highly poetical and his style so figurative that the ...
Página 106
... gave him three guineas for the poem , and it was published in 1726. Winter was dedicated to Sir Spencer Compton , at that time Speaker of the House of Commons , but for a time he did not notice the author . At length some one having ...
... gave him three guineas for the poem , and it was published in 1726. Winter was dedicated to Sir Spencer Compton , at that time Speaker of the House of Commons , but for a time he did not notice the author . At length some one having ...
Página 107
... gave rise to the waggish parody , O , Jemmy Thompson , Jemmy Thompson , O ! Thomson had been introduced to the notice of Lord Talbot , and he received an invitation to accompany the eldest son of that nobleman in a tour through France ...
... gave rise to the waggish parody , O , Jemmy Thompson , Jemmy Thompson , O ! Thomson had been introduced to the notice of Lord Talbot , and he received an invitation to accompany the eldest son of that nobleman in a tour through France ...
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Página 36 - And, father cardinal, I have heard you say That we shall see and know our friends in heaven: If that be true, I shall see my boy again; For since the birth of Cain, the first male child, To him that did but yesterday suspire, There was not such a gracious creature born.
Página 37 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me ; Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief.
Página 129 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Página 205 - Wordsworth on the other hand, |was to propose to himself as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us; an inexhaustible treasure, but for which, in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes, yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor...
Página 113 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and, as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was...
Página 209 - Several years ago, when the Author retired to his native Mountains, with the hope of being enabled to construct a literary Work that might live, it was a reasonable thing that he should take a review of his own Mind, and examine how far Nature and Education had qualified him for such employment. As subsidiary to this preparation, he undertook to record, in Verse, the origin and progress of his own powers, as far as he was acquainted with them.
Página 127 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Página 35 - I am as sorry as if the original fault had been my fault, because myself have seen his demeanour no less civil than he excellent in the quality he professes: besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing, that approves his art.
Página 205 - ... modifying colours of the imagination. The sudden charm which accidents of light and shade, which moonlight or sunset diffused over a known and familiar landscape, appeared to represent the practicability of combining both.
Página 154 - I will be wise, And just, and free, and mild, if in me lies Such power, for I grow weary to behold The selfish and the strong still tyrannize Without reproach or check.