The rhapsodist; or, Mes souvenirs, an epistle [in verse].Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Browne, 1817 - 99 pagine |
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Pagina xxvii
... soul , that appears like intelligence incarnate . He is always superior to his subject ; and , while the reader is transported beyond himself , the POET , comparatively , maintains a dignified composure . His invention is never upon the ...
... soul , that appears like intelligence incarnate . He is always superior to his subject ; and , while the reader is transported beyond himself , the POET , comparatively , maintains a dignified composure . His invention is never upon the ...
Pagina 5
... soul appals ; Whate'er the Attic bards could e'er rehearse , Or MILTON's muse , or HOMER's world of verse , All - all are his ; and all harmonious join To aid th ' elect of heav'n — the favourite of the Nine ! To touch those strings ...
... soul appals ; Whate'er the Attic bards could e'er rehearse , Or MILTON's muse , or HOMER's world of verse , All - all are his ; and all harmonious join To aid th ' elect of heav'n — the favourite of the Nine ! To touch those strings ...
Pagina 9
... soul No rules of sense or decency control ; The thing ( for let not manhood's sacred name Be prostituted to its scorn and shame , ) The thing on offals of sedition fed , By faction's niggard hand supplied with bread , Whose livid spirit ...
... soul No rules of sense or decency control ; The thing ( for let not manhood's sacred name Be prostituted to its scorn and shame , ) The thing on offals of sedition fed , By faction's niggard hand supplied with bread , Whose livid spirit ...
Pagina 10
... soul , and spurious as its birth . O'er classic ground I rove , and from each field Cull such plain flowers , as GREECE and LATIUM yield ; Nor yet to these confined , my slip - shod muse Shall touch , or leave whatever theme I chuse ...
... soul , and spurious as its birth . O'er classic ground I rove , and from each field Cull such plain flowers , as GREECE and LATIUM yield ; Nor yet to these confined , my slip - shod muse Shall touch , or leave whatever theme I chuse ...
Pagina 12
... soul should move , With NEWTON'S spirit , through the realms above ? To this the question comes , as all must see , And there the question rests , at least for me . ( i ) For me no motive ever shall engage With reason's arms to meet the ...
... soul should move , With NEWTON'S spirit , through the realms above ? To this the question comes , as all must see , And there the question rests , at least for me . ( i ) For me no motive ever shall engage With reason's arms to meet the ...
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Academus admiration ANACREON ARISTUS arms atque bade bard beauties beneath blaze bosom CÆSAR character charms Cicero composition conceit Copies coursers critic cùm Demosthenes despotism divine earth epic Epicurus ev'n fame feel fire forms frenzy glory grace Greece Greeks heav'n Homer Homer's genius human Iliad immortal impious ingenii inspired Jove judgment Jupiter labour language LATIUM Lord Byron lustre lyre mankind mighty mihi mind moral muse nations nature neque nihil nobler numbers o'er Odyssey passion Persia PHEIDIAS plain poem Poet Poet's powers praise pride prose quæ quid rays Reilly rerum Rhapsodist rhyme Robert Atkins Roman Rome sacred scene sensibility sentiment SHAKESPEAR's skies Sophocles soul spirit splendour sublime superior tamen taste tempest Tertullian thine thing thunder tion tone verò verse videtur Voltaire Whate'er Whilst William Reilly writer yield γαρ δε και Όμηρου ου τε τὴν
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Pagina 65 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Pagina 60 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Pagina 5 - HIIMANO capiti cervicem pictor equinam Jungere si velit, et varias inducere plumas Undique collatis membris, ut turpiter atrum Desinat in piscem mulier formosa superne, Spectatum admissi risum teneatis, amici...
Pagina 61 - ... methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam ; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms.
Pagina 59 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Pagina 54 - Deus, ecce, deus!' Cui talia fanti ante fores subito non vultus, non color unus, non comptae mansere comae; sed pectus anhelum, et rabie fera corda tument; maiorque videri nec mortale sonans, afflata est numine quando 50 iam propiore dei. 'Cessas in vota precesque, Tros
Pagina 55 - Cum tot sustineas et tanta negotia solus, Res Italas armis tuteris, moribus ornes, Legibus emendes, in publica commoda peccem. Si longo sermone morer tua tempora, Caesar.
Pagina 59 - And this spirit of liberty is so deeply implanted in our constitution, and rooted even in our very soil, that a slave or a negro, the moment he lands in England, falls under the protection of the laws, and so far becomes a freeman (g) ; though the master's right to his service may possibly still continue (6), (7).
Pagina 83 - When the bookseller offered Milton five pounds for his Paradise Lost, he did not reject it and commit his poem to the flames, nor did he accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labor. He knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it.
Pagina 55 - O navis, referent in mare te novi fluctus ! o quid agis ? fortiter occupa portum ! nonne vides ut nudum remigio latus et malus celeri saucius Africo 5 antennaeque gemant ac sine funibus vix durare carinae possint imperiosius aequor?