The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays, 1. kötetNathan Drake Suttaby, Evance, and Company, 1811 |
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29. oldal
... Tales , written for the Free - Thinker ; and which display a con . siderable share of imagination , and an undeviating attention to rectitude of precept . No. V. Ut pictura poësis . HORATIUS . Poems and NO . 4 . 29 . THE GLEANER .
... Tales , written for the Free - Thinker ; and which display a con . siderable share of imagination , and an undeviating attention to rectitude of precept . No. V. Ut pictura poësis . HORATIUS . Poems and NO . 4 . 29 . THE GLEANER .
30. oldal
... Poems and Pictures are adjudged alike . COLMAN . DR . Lacon , Mr. Johnson , and myself , were taking a walk one evening last summer , when on a sudden a dark and thick cloud gathered in the east , which was adorned with a beautiful ...
... Poems and Pictures are adjudged alike . COLMAN . DR . Lacon , Mr. Johnson , and myself , were taking a walk one evening last summer , when on a sudden a dark and thick cloud gathered in the east , which was adorned with a beautiful ...
31. oldal
... in- imitable painter ; but when I reflect upon the beauty , variety , and harmony of the universe , I am apt to consider that as a fine poem , which • * you look on as a finished picture . " This NO . 5 . 31 THE GLEANER.
... in- imitable painter ; but when I reflect upon the beauty , variety , and harmony of the universe , I am apt to consider that as a fine poem , which • * you look on as a finished picture . " This NO . 5 . 31 THE GLEANER.
33. oldal
... and sometimes the humours of a sot , or a hen - pecked blockhead : this species therefore has a great likeness to the low poets , who write humorous ballads , VOL . I. D farces , and burlesque verse , the end of both NO.5 33 THE GLEANER .
... and sometimes the humours of a sot , or a hen - pecked blockhead : this species therefore has a great likeness to the low poets , who write humorous ballads , VOL . I. D farces , and burlesque verse , the end of both NO.5 33 THE GLEANER .
34. oldal
... poets ; but they resemble those that describe a graceful or a deformed man . But they are more aptly compared to those poets , who , to celebrate the praises of the fair - one by whose beauty they are captivated , delineate her face ...
... poets ; but they resemble those that describe a graceful or a deformed man . But they are more aptly compared to those poets , who , to celebrate the praises of the fair - one by whose beauty they are captivated , delineate her face ...
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254. oldal - 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.
52. oldal - 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.
55. oldal - 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.
139. oldal - 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...
124. oldal - 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...
5. oldal - ... 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.
55. oldal - 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...
322. oldal - 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...
177. oldal - 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...
38. oldal - 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.