Bell's Edition, 99-100. kötetJ. Bell, 1793 |
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xxvii. oldal
... wild and romantic appearance of water , and at the same time strictly natural , is what + TRANSLATION . To the genius and friendship of WILLIAM SOMERVILLE , By W. S. Sprinkling the ashes of a friendly bard With tributary tears . I never ...
... wild and romantic appearance of water , and at the same time strictly natural , is what + TRANSLATION . To the genius and friendship of WILLIAM SOMERVILLE , By W. S. Sprinkling the ashes of a friendly bard With tributary tears . I never ...
xxviii. oldal
... wild green slopes peeping through dingle , or irregular groupes of trees , a.confused mixture of savage and cultivated ground , held up to the eye , and forming a landscape fit for the pencil of Salvator Rosa . Winding on beside this ...
... wild green slopes peeping through dingle , or irregular groupes of trees , a.confused mixture of savage and cultivated ground , held up to the eye , and forming a landscape fit for the pencil of Salvator Rosa . Winding on beside this ...
xxxiii. oldal
... wild sloping ground ; and in an- other a view of the town , appearing from hence as upon the shelving banks of a large piece of water in the flat . Suffice it to say , that the hill and vale , plain and woodland , villages and single ...
... wild sloping ground ; and in an- other a view of the town , appearing from hence as upon the shelving banks of a large piece of water in the flat . Suffice it to say , that the hill and vale , plain and woodland , villages and single ...
xxxv. oldal
... wild heath , intersected with cross roads , is a very considerable object . Near adjoining to this is a seat , from whence the water is seen to advantage in many different stages of its progress ; or where ( as a poetical friend once ...
... wild heath , intersected with cross roads , is a very considerable object . Near adjoining to this is a seat , from whence the water is seen to advantage in many different stages of its progress ; or where ( as a poetical friend once ...
xxxvi. oldal
... wild declivities , intermixed with smooth green slopes and scenes of cultivation . We now return again into the great lawn at bot- tom , and soon come to a seat , which gives a nearer view of the water before mentioned , between the ...
... wild declivities , intermixed with smooth green slopes and scenes of cultivation . We now return again into the great lawn at bot- tom , and soon come to a seat , which gives a nearer view of the water before mentioned , between the ...
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
azure ray bard beauty Beauty mourns beeches beneath bless'd bliss bloom boast bosom bow'r breast Carthage charms Clent hill crown'd cry'd Damon dear Delia delight ELEGY Ev'n ev'ry Exeter Exchange fair faithless fame Fancy Fate Faunus favour'd flame flow'rs flows fond form'd Fortune friendship gen'rous genius gentle glow grace ground grove hanging wood hear hill IMITATION lawn Leasowes lov'd LUXBOROUGH lyre maid mind mournful Muse Naiad native ne'er numbers nymph o'er oaks pain paint path peace pensive plain pleas'd pleasing pleasure poison'd polish'd pow'r praise pride rills rose rove rural scene scorn seat shade Shenstone shepherd shine Shropshire shrubs sigh skies smile soft song soul strain stray'd stream swain sweet tear tender thee thine thou thro toils tow'ring trees tuneful Twas vale valley verdant vernal verse virtue weep wild WILLIAM SHENSTONE winding wood youth
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45. oldal - COME listen to my mournful tale. Ye tender hearts, and lovers dear ; Nor will you scorn to heave a sigh, Nor will you blush to shed a tear. And thou, dear Kitty, peerless maid, Do thou a pensive ear incline ; For thou canst weep at every woe, And pity every plaint, but mine. Young Dawson was a gallant...
189. oldal - Alas ! from the day that we met, What hope of an end to my woes ? When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repose. Yet time may diminish the pain: The flower, and the shrub, and the tree, Which I rear'd for her pleasure in vain, In time may have comfort for me.
165. oldal - For she was just, and friend to virtuous lore, And pass'd much time in truly virtuous deed ; And, in those elfins...
167. oldal - But ah ! what pen his piteous plight may trace ? Or what device his loud laments explain ? The form uncouth of his disguised face ? The pallid hue that dyes his looks amain ? The plenteous shower that does his cheek distain?
167. oldal - She meditates a prayer to set him free; Nor gentle pardon could this dame deny, (If gentle pardon could with dames agree,) To her sad grief that swells in either eye, And wrings her so that all for pity she could die.
163. oldal - And if neglect had lavish'd on the ground Fragment of bread, she would collect the same ; For well she knew, and quaintly could expound, What sin it were to waste...
184. oldal - With the lilac to render it gay ! Already it calls for my love, To prune the wild branches away.
183. oldal - My banks they are furnished with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep; My grottoes are shaded with trees, And my hills are white over with sheep.
170. oldal - Heaven shield their short-lived pastimes, I implore ! For well may freedom erst so dearly won, Appear to British elf more gladsome than the sun.
xviii. oldal - ... to country solitudes, and sought his happiness in rural employments, has a right to consider himself as a real shepherd. The flocks, the meadows, and the grottos, are his own, and the embellishment of his farm his sole amusement. As the sentiments, therefore, were inspired by Nature, and that in the earlier part of his life, he hopes they will retain a natural appearance; diffusing at least some part of that amusement which he freely acknowledges he received from the composition of them.