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Page 137 - Great Julius, on the mountains bred, A flock perhaps, or herd, had led : He *, that the world subdued, had been But the best wrestler on the green.
Page 189 - Leasowes, where they appear so lovely as to endear the memory of their author; and justify the reputation of Mr. Shenstone, who inhabited, made, and celebrated the place ; it is a perfect picture of his mind, simple, elegant, and amiable ; and will always suggest a doubt, whether the spot inspired his verse; or whether, in the scenes which he formed, he only realized the pastoral images which abound in his songs.
Page 16 - ... and now and then when they had drunk so much as hardly to distinguish wine from water, they would conclude with a bottle or two of claret. They kept late hours, drank their favourite toasts on their knees, and in short were what were then called
Page 15 - tis for us to think, How the world is rul'd by asses, And the wisest sway'd by chink. I own, with shame, that, being then not seventeen, I was so far captivated with the social disposition of these young people (many of whom were ingenious lads and good scholars) that I began to...
Page 152 - Freedom I love, and form I hate, And chufe my lodgings at an inn. Here, waiter ! take my fordid ore, Which lacqueys elfe might hope to win ; It buys, what courts have not in ftore ; It buys me freedom at an inn. Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his ftages may have been, May figh to think he ftill has found The warmeft welcome, at an inn.
Page 51 - ... in the corner of a field, amongst some hazels, he had scooped out a sort of cave, stuck a little cross of wood over the door and called it an hermitage; and, a few years after, had built an elegant little summer house in the water, under the fine group of beeches (which was afterwards removed by Mr Pitt's advice).
Page 189 - Who knew'ft, perchance, to harmonize thy fhades Still fofter than thy fong ; yet was that fong Nor rude, nor inharmonious, when attun'd To paftoral plaint, or tale of flighted love.
Page 195 - If virtue, fcience, manly fenfe ; If wit, that never gave offence ; The cleareft head, the tendereft heart, In thy efteem e'er claim'da part ; Ah ! finite thy breaft, and drop a tear, For know, thy Shenftone's duft lies here. . G,
Page 140 - The Leasowes', but he had already tried his hand upon the estate, as landscape-gardener, during the time of his tenant. Now he 'retired', to quote a delightful passage from Graves's Recollection, 'to the indolence of Shades and solitude, where an elegant fancy was tempted to riot amidst the flowers of descriptive poetry, rather than toil in the mine of profound learning and abstruse sciences'.
Page 189 - ... purity. An allufion to them evidently enters into the defign of * the Leafowes, where they appear fo lovely as to endear the memory of their author ; and juftify the reputation of Mr. Shenftone, who inhabited, made, and celebrated the place ; it is a perfect picture...