Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807, المجلد 1A. Constable, 1811 - 432 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة ix
... with most of the illustrious literary characters who adorned the latter half of the last cen- tury . There are accordingly interspersed in these volumes many interesting anec- X dotes of eminent persons , which will pro- bably 5 ix.
... with most of the illustrious literary characters who adorned the latter half of the last cen- tury . There are accordingly interspersed in these volumes many interesting anec- X dotes of eminent persons , which will pro- bably 5 ix.
الصفحة xi
... literary cor- respondence , and a biographical memoir , have since been edited in three volumes , by WALTER Scorт , Esq . to whom that part of Miss SEWARD's writings had been committed , by a bequest similar to that under which the ...
... literary cor- respondence , and a biographical memoir , have since been edited in three volumes , by WALTER Scorт , Esq . to whom that part of Miss SEWARD's writings had been committed , by a bequest similar to that under which the ...
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... literary Colossus * has been some time in Lichfield . The extinction , in our sphere , of that mighty spirit approaches fast . A confirmed dropsy deluges the vital source . It is melancholy to observe with what terror he contemplates ...
... literary Colossus * has been some time in Lichfield . The extinction , in our sphere , of that mighty spirit approaches fast . A confirmed dropsy deluges the vital source . It is melancholy to observe with what terror he contemplates ...
الصفحة 11
... literary comet may set where it rose , and Lichfield receive his pale and stern re- mains . You will be kindly gratified to hear that I re- ceive the highest encomiums upon my poem , LOUISA , by the first literary characters of the age ...
... literary comet may set where it rose , and Lichfield receive his pale and stern re- mains . You will be kindly gratified to hear that I re- ceive the highest encomiums upon my poem , LOUISA , by the first literary characters of the age ...
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... LITERARY DISSERTATIONS , " promising me much gratification , became esta- blished soon after I had the honour to address you last , and , contrary to the general consequence of raised expectations , it promised no more than it performed ...
... LITERARY DISSERTATIONS , " promising me much gratification , became esta- blished soon after I had the honour to address you last , and , contrary to the general consequence of raised expectations , it promised no more than it performed ...
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الصفحة 218 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice...
الصفحة 360 - Thyself how wondrous then! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these Thy lowest works : yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine. Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, Angels ! for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night, Circle his throne rejoicing : ye in heaven, On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
الصفحة 356 - Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
الصفحة 110 - This pow'r has praise that virtue scarce can warm, Till fame supplies the universal charm. Yet Reason frowns on War's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name; And mortgag'd states their grandsires...
الصفحة 19 - Thou sun, of this great world both eye and soul, Acknowledge him thy greater ; sound his praise In thy eternal course, both when thou climb'st, And when high noon hast gain'd, and when thou fall'st.
الصفحة 207 - Wing'd with red lightning and impetuous rage, Perhaps hath spent his shafts, and ceases now To bellow through the vast and boundless deep.
الصفحة 219 - Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers.
الصفحة 360 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
الصفحة 218 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill...
الصفحة 66 - he would hang a dog that read the ' Lycidas ' of Milton twice." " What, then," replied I, " must become of me, who can say it by heart ; and who often repeat it to myself with a delight, which grows by what it feeds upon ? " " Die," returned the growler,