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Page lvi
... rural imagery , and must be peculiarly pleasing to those who are familiar with the scenes fo elegantly painted . He employed his pen at times in vari- ous anonymous pamphlets and effays , on mifcellaneous fubjects , and particularly in ...
... rural imagery , and must be peculiarly pleasing to those who are familiar with the scenes fo elegantly painted . He employed his pen at times in vari- ous anonymous pamphlets and effays , on mifcellaneous fubjects , and particularly in ...
Page lxiv
... rural painting , may , at least , to the ear have the fame merit that landskip painting has to the But few poems eye . of this kind were ever known to come from the pen of a good writer without a mixture of moral reflections ; and in ...
... rural painting , may , at least , to the ear have the fame merit that landskip painting has to the But few poems eye . of this kind were ever known to come from the pen of a good writer without a mixture of moral reflections ; and in ...
Page lxvii
... rural imagery , in which it will be found that his principal merit is novelty in defcription , and a laudable endeavour to introduce an occafional fim- plicity of ftile , perhaps too much re- jected by the prefent faftidious readers of ...
... rural imagery , in which it will be found that his principal merit is novelty in defcription , and a laudable endeavour to introduce an occafional fim- plicity of ftile , perhaps too much re- jected by the prefent faftidious readers of ...
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... rural character . . Dr. Johnson , who , in his account of Cooper's Hill , concurred with the vox populi , has in his account of Lycidas , widely diffented from it . His cenfure is indeed fufficiently fevere , He ob- jects to the form ...
... rural character . . Dr. Johnson , who , in his account of Cooper's Hill , concurred with the vox populi , has in his account of Lycidas , widely diffented from it . His cenfure is indeed fufficiently fevere , He ob- jects to the form ...
Page 39
... drama , and a well written ec- logue , will always be read with delight . Theocrites perhaps gave a picture of genuine Sicilian rural life . Virgil intro- C 4 duced duced himself , and his friend Gallus , in a CRITICAL ESSAYS . 39.
... drama , and a well written ec- logue , will always be read with delight . Theocrites perhaps gave a picture of genuine Sicilian rural life . Virgil intro- C 4 duced duced himself , and his friend Gallus , in a CRITICAL ESSAYS . 39.
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Page 149 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Page 38 - And all their echoes, mourn. The willows and the hazel copses green Shall now no more be seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays. As killing as the canker to the rose...
Page 192 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 156 - The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Page 245 - When time advances, and when lovers fail, She then shines forth, solicitous to bless, In all the glaring impotence of dress.
Page 214 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...
Page 218 - Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man...
Page 100 - Be full, ye courts ; be great who will ; Search for peace with all your skill ; Open wide the lofty door, Seek her on the marble floor ; In vain...
Page 229 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.
Page 161 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th