Observations on the Writings and on the Character of Mr. GrayT. Cadell and W. Davies Strand, 1814 - 180 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 101 - Nor second he that rode sublime Upon the seraph-wings of Ecstasy, The secrets of th' abyss to spy. He passed the flaming bounds of Place and Time: The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw; but, blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.
الصفحة 49 - No more the Grecian muse unrivall'd reigns, To Britain let the nations homage pay : She felt a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray.
الصفحة 68 - There is not an ode in the English language which is constructed like these two compositions ; with such power, such majesty, and such sweetness, with such proportioned pauses and just cadences, with such regulated measures of the verse, with such master principles of lyrical art displayed and exemplified, and, at the same time, with such a concealment of the difficulty, which is lost in the softness and uninterrupted flowing of the lines in each stanza, with such a musical magic, that every verse...
الصفحة 129 - But it must be at least confessed, that to embellish the form of nature is an innocent amusement ; and some praise must be allowed by the most supercilious observer to him, who does best what such multitudes are contending to do well.
الصفحة 44 - Him have we seen the greenwood side along, While o'er the heath we hied, our labour done, Oft as the woodlark piped her farewell song, With wistful eyes pursue the setting sun.
الصفحة 89 - To smuggle a few years, and strive to mend A broken character and constitution.
الصفحة 128 - Of all that might delight a dainty ear, Such as at once might not on living ground, Save In this paradise, be heard elsewhere: Right hard it was for wight which did it hear, To...
الصفحة 43 - I will set down after this another little fragment, two verses made by Mr. Gray as we were walking in the spring in the neighbourhood of Cambridge, " There pipes the woodlark, and the song thrush there Scatters his loose notes in the waste of air.
الصفحة 32 - As an instance of the strictness of his principles, he once made it his particular request to a friend who was going to the continent, that he would not pay a visit to Voltaire; and when his friend replied, " What can a visit from a person like me to him signify ?" he rejoined, with peculiar earnestness, " Sir, every tribute to such a man signifies.
الصفحة 48 - Education, in order to produce the happiness of mankind,' he said, he could not; and then explained himself in words of this kind, or to this effect: ' I have been used to write chiefly lyrick poetry, in which, the poems being short, I have accustomed myself to polish every part of them with care; and as this has become a habit, I can scarcely write in any other manner; the labour of this in a long poem would hardly be tolerable.