An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie ...: Including Many of His Original Letters ...A. Constable and Company, 1807 |
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... English versification . † Even at that early * For such books as he read at this early period , he was al- most solely indebted to the Rev. Mr Thomson , at that time mi- nister of Lawrencekirk ; a very learned man , whose collection ...
... English versification . † Even at that early * For such books as he read at this early period , he was al- most solely indebted to the Rev. Mr Thomson , at that time mi- nister of Lawrencekirk ; a very learned man , whose collection ...
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... English language , particularly in poetry and belles lettres , of whom he well knew how to appreciate the re- spective merits , and with the most favourite passages of whose works his memory was stored beyond that of almost any man I ...
... English language , particularly in poetry and belles lettres , of whom he well knew how to appreciate the re- spective merits , and with the most favourite passages of whose works his memory was stored beyond that of almost any man I ...
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... English school at Aber- deen , 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 ...
... English school at Aber- deen , 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 ...
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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 te ...
... 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 te ...
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... English lan- guage . " 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 ...
... English lan- guage . " 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 ...
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الصفحة 148 - 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.
الصفحة 27 - Let vanity adorn the marble tomb With trophies, rhymes, and scutcheons of renown, In the deep dungeon of some Gothic dome, Where night and desolation ever frown. Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down; Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With here and there a violet bestrewn, Fast by a brook or fountain's murmuring wave; And many an evening sun shine sweetly on my grave.
الصفحة 251 - Minstrel' last night, with as much rapture as poetry, in her noblest, sweetest charms, ever raised in my soul. It seemed to me, that my once most beloved minstrel, Thomson, was come down from heaven, refined by the converse of purer spirits than those he lived with here, to let me hear him sing again the beauties of nature, and the finest feelings of virtue, not with human, but with angelic strains ! I beg you to express my gratitude to the poet for the pleasure he has given me.
الصفحة 37 - Where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar ? Not one now, to mock your own grinning?
الصفحة 115 - Not long ago, I began a poem in the style and stanza of Spenser, in which I propose to give full scope to my inclination, and be either droll or pathetic, descriptive or sentimental, tender or satirical, as the humour strikes me; for, if I mistake not, the measure which I have adopted admits equally of all these kinds of composition.
الصفحة 250 - It allows the sententiousness of the couplet, as well as the more complex modulation of blank verse. What some critics have remarked, of its uniformity growing at last tiresome to the ear, will be found to hold true only when the poetry is faulty in other respects.
الصفحة 351 - ... which, they said, was a book they always kept by them ; and the King said he had one copy of it at Kew, and another in town, and immediately went and took it down from a shelf. I found it was the second edition. ' I never stole a book but one,' said his Majesty, ' and that was yours (speaking to me); I stole it from the Queen, to give it to Lord Hertford to read.
الصفحة 350 - We were received in the most gracious manner possible by both their Majesties. I had the honour of a conversation with them (nobody else being present but Dr. Majendie) for upwards of an hour, on a great variety of topics ; in which both the King and Queen joined, with a degree of cheerfulness, affability, and ease, that was to me surprising, and soon dissipated the embarrassment which I felt at the beginning of the conference. They both complimented me, in the highest terms, on my
الصفحة 65 - Goddess' pensive form was seen. Her robe of Nature's varied green Waved on the gale ; grief dimm'd her radiant eyes, Her bosom heaved with boding sighs : She eyed the main ; where, gaining on the view. Emerging from th' ethereal blue, Midst the dread pomp of war, Blazed the Iberian streamer from afar.
الصفحة 148 - Now the storm begins to lower (Haste, the loom of Hell prepare), Iron-sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darkened air. Glittering lances are the loom, Where the dusky warp we strain, Weaving many a soldier's doom, Orkney's woe, and Randver's bane.