The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays, المجلد 1Nathan Drake Suttaby, Evance, and Company, 1811 |
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الصفحة vii
... the most delicate mind , and that the whole should subserve the best interests of virtue . To conclude : it is my wish , that the Gleaner should form a valuable accompaniment to the Classical Essayists ; INTRODUCTION . vii.
... the most delicate mind , and that the whole should subserve the best interests of virtue . To conclude : it is my wish , that the Gleaner should form a valuable accompaniment to the Classical Essayists ; INTRODUCTION . vii.
الصفحة 38
... arts , to heighten their images , and strikę our minds with greater force , agree to represent human qualities as persons , and to endow them with their peculiar properties . They describe virtues 38 NO . 6 . THE GLEANER.
... arts , to heighten their images , and strikę our minds with greater force , agree to represent human qualities as persons , and to endow them with their peculiar properties . They describe virtues 38 NO . 6 . THE GLEANER.
الصفحة 39
... virtues in the form of goddesses , and vices in that of furies , and give to each their emblematical distinctions . Thus Justice holds her sword in one hand , and her balance in the other ; while Fame is provided with wings and a silver ...
... virtues in the form of goddesses , and vices in that of furies , and give to each their emblematical distinctions . Thus Justice holds her sword in one hand , and her balance in the other ; while Fame is provided with wings and a silver ...
الصفحة 44
... sense and decency , and often entertain the audience at the expence of religion , virtue , and innocence . LAY - MONASTERY , No. 32 , Jan. 27 , 1713 , No. VII . Si veteres ita miratur laudatque poetas , 44 NO . 6 . THE GLEANER .
... sense and decency , and often entertain the audience at the expence of religion , virtue , and innocence . LAY - MONASTERY , No. 32 , Jan. 27 , 1713 , No. VII . Si veteres ita miratur laudatque poetas , 44 NO . 6 . THE GLEANER .
الصفحة 58
... virtue which out- shone all the graces of her person . All the youth of the neighbourhood were impatient to see her ; and more impatient , after they had seen her , to obtain her in marriage ; none doubting of being completely happy ...
... virtue which out- shone all the graces of her person . All the youth of the neighbourhood were impatient to see her ; and more impatient , after they had seen her , to obtain her in marriage ; none doubting of being completely happy ...
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الصفحة 254 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
الصفحة 52 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
الصفحة 55 - With quicken'd step, Brown night retires. Young day pours in apace, And opens all the lawny prospect wide. The dripping rock, the mountain's misty top, Swell on the sight, and brighten with the dawn.
الصفحة 139 - Enlarge my life with multitude of days ! In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays: Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy...
الصفحة 124 - All those things are passed away like a shadow, and as a host that hasted by; and as a ship that passeth over the waves of the water, which, when it is gone by,, the trace thereof cannot be found, neither the pathway of the keel in the waves...
الصفحة 5 - ... for the supports of his body were easily attained, but the eager longings for seeing again the face of man, during the interval of craving bodily appetites, were hardly supportable. He grew dejected, languid, and melancholy, scarce able to refrain from doing himself violence, till by degrees, by the force of reason and frequent reading of the scriptures, and turning his thoughts upon the study of navigation, after the space of eighteen months, he grew thoroughly reconciled to his Condition.
الصفحة 55 - Young day pours in apace, And opens all the lawny prospect wide. The dripping rock, the mountain's misty top, Swell on the sight, and brighten with the dawn. Blue...
الصفحة 322 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes: 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown ; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and...
الصفحة 177 - Twill trickle to his rival's bier ; O'er Pur's the mournful requiem sound, And Fox's shall the notes rebound. The solemn echo seems to cry, — " Here let their discord with them die...
الصفحة 38 - The tuneful page with speaking picture charm. What to the ear sublimer rapture brings, That strain alone the genuine Poet sings ; That form alone where glows peculiar grace, The genuine Painter condescends to trace : 10 No sordid theme will verse or paint admit, Unworthy colours, if unworthy wit.