The British Prose Writers, Volume 22J. Sharpe, 1821 - British prose literature |
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... mentioning , by way of apology , that it is only three months since I resumed the task of writing verses , which I re- ~ nounced when I left school ; and not from any mo- tive of vanity , or desire of reputation , but merely as ...
... mentioning , by way of apology , that it is only three months since I resumed the task of writing verses , which I re- ~ nounced when I left school ; and not from any mo- tive of vanity , or desire of reputation , but merely as ...
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... mention nearly a complete ode in another place ; but I am disgusted with the flat and perpetual imi- tation of the many Turkish poets , to whom we may aptly apply the words of Horace : O servile herd of imitators ! -- Do you wish to ...
... mention nearly a complete ode in another place ; but I am disgusted with the flat and perpetual imi- tation of the many Turkish poets , to whom we may aptly apply the words of Horace : O servile herd of imitators ! -- Do you wish to ...
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... mention the evident corruption of the sense in some passages . Your translation of the Epigram on the Kiss of Agatho , is very elegant ; and the idea in it resem- bles that of Hafez , in the following lines : Anxious thy blooming charms ...
... mention the evident corruption of the sense in some passages . Your translation of the Epigram on the Kiss of Agatho , is very elegant ; and the idea in it resem- bles that of Hafez , in the following lines : Anxious thy blooming charms ...
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... mentioning the work which I want , and the name of the printer . Although your politeness has excused any far- ther efforts , I nevertheless send the ode which you requested in your last letter but one , as I think it will please you ...
... mentioning the work which I want , and the name of the printer . Although your politeness has excused any far- ther efforts , I nevertheless send the ode which you requested in your last letter but one , as I think it will please you ...
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... mention to have read in the miscellaneous works of some ano- nymous author , had been correct , you would not have wanted my humble assistance : but it is so full of errors , that I must be an Edipus to interpret it . Every one knows ...
... mention to have read in the miscellaneous works of some ano- nymous author , had been correct , you would not have wanted my humble assistance : but it is so full of errors , that I must be an Edipus to interpret it . Every one knows ...
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accept admirable agreeable amusement ancient answer Arabic Asiatic attention beautiful believe Bengal Brahmans Calcutta Cicero constitution copy court Crishna-nagur dear lord dear sir delight Edmund Cartwright elegant England English Farewell favour give Greek H. A. Schultens Hafez happy Hindu honour hope India John Macpherson justice Kasidah labour lady Jones Lady Spencer language learned leisure liberty literature London Lord Althorpe manuscript mean ment mention Nadir Shah native never Nezami obliging letter opinion Oriental Oxford Persian Persian Language perusal pleased pleasure poems poetry poets politics present Prince Adam Czartoryski printed published pundits reason received respect Reviczki Sallust Sanscrit sent sentiments Sept sincere sir George Young Sir John Macpherson sir William Jones society soon thanks tion translation Treatise truth vacation verse wish words write Written in Latin
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Page 131 - ... of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world: all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power: both angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Page 29 - Where the great sun begins his state, Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight ; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale, Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 55 - Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six. Four spend in prayer— the rest on nature fix. Rather. Six hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and 'all to heaven.
Page 29 - ... out in the morning, in company with a friend, to visit a place, where Milton spent some part of his life, and where, in all probability, he composed several of his earliest productions. It is a small village, situated on a pleasant...
Page 170 - I have carefully and regularly perused these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion, that the volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written.
Page 29 - Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures; Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray; Mountains, on whose barren breast The laboring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide ; Towers and battlements it sees Bosomed high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes ; Hard by, a cottage chimney smokes, From betwixt two aged oaks...
Page 135 - Many learned investigators of antiquity are fully persuaded, that a very old and almost primaeval language was in use among these northern nations, from which not only the Celtic dialects, but even the Greek and Latin are derived...
Page 121 - I GIVE you many thanks for your most obliging and valuable present; and feel myself extremely honoured by this mark of your friendship. My first leisure will be employed in .an attentive perusal of an author, who had merit enough to fill up a part of yours, and whom you have made accessible to me with an ease and advantage, which one so many years disused to Greek literature as I have been, could not otherwise have.
Page 173 - Before thy mystic altar, heavenly truth, I kneel in manhood, as I knelt in youth. Thus let me kneel, till this dull form decay, And life's last shade be brightened by thy ray. Then shall my soul, now lost in clouds below, Soar without bound, without consuming glow.
Page 174 - Here was deposited, the mortal part of a man, who feared GOD, but not death; and maintained independence, but sought not riches; who thought none below him, but the base and unjust, none above him, but the wise and virtuous...