Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807, المجلد 1A. Constable, 1811 - 432 من الصفحات |
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... talents , and polished manners . The situation of Lausanne pleased me more than that of Geneva . It commands a finer view of the lake , is more rural , and less pretending . It is not encumbered , as about Geneva , with a multitude of ...
... talents , and polished manners . The situation of Lausanne pleased me more than that of Geneva . It commands a finer view of the lake , is more rural , and less pretending . It is not encumbered , as about Geneva , with a multitude of ...
الصفحة 35
... talents . The proof of their dearer far is their elegance is before me ; but kindness than their grace . Ah ! Madam , the af- fection which that kindness has excited in my heart , creates a tender interest in all you say to me , beyond ...
... talents . The proof of their dearer far is their elegance is before me ; but kindness than their grace . Ah ! Madam , the af- fection which that kindness has excited in my heart , creates a tender interest in all you say to me , beyond ...
الصفحة 37
... talents of his brethren in the race of literary glory , it is sacrificing the many to an in- dividual , when , to exalt him , truth is thus involv- ed , and hid in hyperbolic praise . O England ! not less ungrateful than partial is this ...
... talents of his brethren in the race of literary glory , it is sacrificing the many to an in- dividual , when , to exalt him , truth is thus involv- ed , and hid in hyperbolic praise . O England ! not less ungrateful than partial is this ...
الصفحة 39
... ; but I have often thought , that we never rise from any composition by the pen of the illustrious , with exactly the same degree of respect for the talents of the au- thor with which we sat down to peruse it ; LETTER X. 39.
... ; but I have often thought , that we never rise from any composition by the pen of the illustrious , with exactly the same degree of respect for the talents of the au- thor with which we sat down to peruse it ; LETTER X. 39.
الصفحة 45
... talents , but , as yet , have turned them into no profitable channel . " - " Mother , I have not deceived Mrs Porter : I have told her the worst of me ; that I am of mean extraction ; that I have no money ; and that I have had an uncle ...
... talents , but , as yet , have turned them into no profitable channel . " - " Mother , I have not deceived Mrs Porter : I have told her the worst of me ; that I am of mean extraction ; that I have no money ; and that I have had an uncle ...
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Adieu admire agreeable amiable amongst ANNA SEWARD Avignon bard beautiful benevolence blank verse celebrated character charming cold composition criticism dear delight Dewes Dr Johnson elegant envy Epic Poetry epithets excellence eyes fame fancy father feel flattering genius gentleman Gentleman's Magazine GEORGE HARDINGE Gibraltar glow graces happiness Hayley Hayley's heart honour hope hour idea imagination ingenious interest Knowles lady late LETTER Lichfield light literary Lord Lucy Porter lyre Madam March 25 Milton mind MISS WESTON Monody morning muse nature never nymph observe odes Ossian Paradise Lost passages perhaps Petrarch Piozzi pleasure poem poet poetic poetry praise prose regret rendered rhyme rocks scene sensibility Seward Shakespeare shew sonnet Sophia spirit style sublime sure sweet talents taste thou tion truth Vaucluse verse virtues Whalley WILLIAM HAYLEY wish writings youth
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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,