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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... - solution of attempting to write the Life of Dr Beattie , I determined to request per- mission to inscribe it to your Lordship ; be- cause I well know the high value he justly 229910 vi set on your friendship , and how much it ΤΟ ...
... - solution of attempting to write the Life of Dr Beattie , I determined to request per- mission to inscribe it to your Lordship ; be- cause I well know the high value he justly 229910 vi set on your friendship , and how much it ΤΟ ...
الصفحة vii
... writer take care to " dwell principally on such topics as cha- " racterize the man , and distinguish that 66 peculiar part which he acted in the va- " ried drama of society . " Keeping in view this rule of Mr Mason's , it is my purpose ...
... writer take care to " dwell principally on such topics as cha- " racterize the man , and distinguish that 66 peculiar part which he acted in the va- " ried drama of society . " Keeping in view this rule of Mr Mason's , it is my purpose ...
الصفحة vii
... write biography , ' ought to have had a near acquaintance with the person whose life and character he means to deli- neate ; it is my pride to say , that , during the long period of almost forty years , I was honoured with Dr Beattie's ...
... write biography , ' ought to have had a near acquaintance with the person whose life and character he means to deli- neate ; it is my pride to say , that , during the long period of almost forty years , I was honoured with Dr Beattie's ...
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... write so much , preserving and en- joying at the same time a suitable inter- course with society . * After these few introductory observa- * I have retained the ancient custom of placing the Notes at the bottom of the page , though in ...
... write so much , preserving and en- joying at the same time a suitable inter- course with society . * After these few introductory observa- * I have retained the ancient custom of placing the Notes at the bottom of the page , though in ...
الصفحة 19
... write down any poetical thought that had struck his fancy . In the year 1749 , he commenced his academi- cal course , and attended the Greek class in Ma- rischal College , Aberdeen , at that time taught by Dr Blackwell . † Of Dr ...
... write down any poetical thought that had struck his fancy . In the year 1749 , he commenced his academi- cal course , and attended the Greek class in Ma- rischal College , Aberdeen , at that time taught by Dr Blackwell . † Of Dr ...
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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.