An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie, L.L.D...Isaac Riley, 1806 - 559 من الصفحات |
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... English versification.t Even at that early period , his turn for poetry began to show itself , and among his school - fellows he went by the name of the Poet . It was remarked , likewise by his family at home , particularly by a sister ...
... English versification.t Even at that early period , his turn for poetry began to show itself , and among his school - fellows he went by the name of the Poet . It was remarked , likewise by his family at home , particularly by a sister ...
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... English language , particularly in poetry and belles lettres , of whom he well knew how to appreciate the respective merits , and with the most favourite passages of whose works his memory was stored beyond that of almost any man I ever ...
... English language , particularly in poetry and belles lettres , of whom he well knew how to appreciate the respective merits , and with the most favourite passages of whose works his memory was stored beyond that of almost any man I ever ...
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... English school at Aberdeen , I am happy in the opportunity of thus publicly testifying my most sincere respect ; and that gratitude which I shall ever feel towards him for the warm interest he was pleased to take in the direction of my ...
... English school at Aberdeen , I am happy in the opportunity of thus publicly testifying my most sincere respect ; and that gratitude which I shall ever feel towards him for the warm interest he was pleased to take in the direction of my ...
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... English novels . I grant there are in the novel before us a great many passages of the most interesting kind , but these passages are few in comparison to the extent of the work . I cannot help thinking that our author is often tedious ...
... English novels . I grant there are in the novel before us a great many passages of the most interesting kind , but these passages are few in comparison to the extent of the work . I cannot help thinking that our author is often tedious ...
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... English language . " After allowing this writer so large a share of merit , perhaps it may be thought too trifling to censure his style . It is , indeed , sometimes very expressive . To have raised it above the familiar had been faulty ...
... English language . " After allowing this writer so large a share of merit , perhaps it may be thought too trifling to censure his style . It is , indeed , sometimes very expressive . To have raised it above the familiar had been faulty ...
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الصفحة 306 - Man that is born of a woman Is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down : He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
الصفحة 498 - His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great; and what he did not immediately know he could at least tell where to find.
الصفحة 306 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
الصفحة 543 - Oh, how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields ! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields ; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of Heaven, Oh, how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
الصفحة 14 - Thy shades, thy silence, now be mine, Thy charms my only theme ; My haunt the hollow cliff, whose pine Waves o'er the gloomy stream, Whence! the scared owl on pinions grey Breaks from the rustling boughs, And down the lone vale sails away To more profound repose.
الصفحة 191 - Reynolds,, who was the intimate and beloved friend of that great man ; the friend whom he declared to be " the most invulnerable man he knew ; whom, if he should quarrel with him, he should find the most difficulty how to abuse.
الصفحة 351 - True wit is nature to advantage dressed, — What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
الصفحة 340 - I know not who will go to heaven if Langton does not. Sir, I could almost say, Sit anima mea cum Langtono.
الصفحة 520 - gainst Passion's threatful blast Let steady Reason urge the struggling oar ; Shot through the dreary gloom, the morn at last Gives to thy longing eye the blissful shore. Forget my frailties, thou art also frail ; Forgive my lapses, for thyself may'st fall ; Nor read, unmoved, my artless tender tale, — I was a friend, O man, to thee, to all.
الصفحة 79 - See the grisly texture grow, ("Tis of human entrails made,) And the weights, that play below, Each a gasping warrior's head. Shafts for shuttles, dipt in gore, Shoot the trembling cords along Sword, that once a Monarch bore, Keep the tissue close and strong.