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... replied , " You have written a pretty book , Mr Pope ; but you must not call it Homer . " Bentley was right . With all its pomp of language and melody of versifica- tion , its richness of imagery and mag- nificence of diction , Pope's ...
... replied , " You have written a pretty book , Mr Pope ; but you must not call it Homer . " Bentley was right . With all its pomp of language and melody of versifica- tion , its richness of imagery and mag- nificence of diction , Pope's ...
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... replied : These of death Here is Dante portrayed to the life in the very outset . What a collection of awful images in a few lines ! Loud lamentations , hideous cries , mingled with the sound of clasped hands , be- neath a starless sky ...
... replied : These of death Here is Dante portrayed to the life in the very outset . What a collection of awful images in a few lines ! Loud lamentations , hideous cries , mingled with the sound of clasped hands , be- neath a starless sky ...
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... replied I. Ralph Doughby , Esquire of New Feliciana , La . , was an old acquaint- ance of Richards and myself , and an excellent specimen of a warm - hearted , impetuous , breakneck Kentuckian , with a share of earthquake in his com ...
... replied I. Ralph Doughby , Esquire of New Feliciana , La . , was an old acquaint- ance of Richards and myself , and an excellent specimen of a warm - hearted , impetuous , breakneck Kentuckian , with a share of earthquake in his com ...
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... replied my friend . We had sat for some time talking over Doughby's mishaps , when we were interrupted by a noise upon deck . Hurras and hallos were resounding from every side and corner of the steamer . We hurried out to see what was ...
... replied my friend . We had sat for some time talking over Doughby's mishaps , when we were interrupted by a noise upon deck . Hurras and hallos were resounding from every side and corner of the steamer . We hurried out to see what was ...
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... replied Doughby , shaking his head , " I had something else to do besides knifing the stag . No , no , I had plenty to think of to keep away from the tree - trunk . Besides , I let the knife fall at the very moment the beast dragged me ...
... replied Doughby , shaking his head , " I had something else to do besides knifing the stag . No , no , I had plenty to think of to keep away from the tree - trunk . Besides , I let the knife fall at the very moment the beast dragged me ...
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Page 395 - whispers through the trees': If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep': The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with 'sleep'. Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Page 376 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 130 - For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man — This was my sole resource, my only plan : Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.
Page 392 - First follow nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
Page 392 - Want as much more to turn it to its use ; For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife. 'Tis more to guide than spur the Muse's steed, Restrain his fury than provoke his speed : The winged courser, like a generous horse, Shows most true mettle when you check his course.
Page 153 - What verse can do he has perform'd in this, Which he presumes the most correct of his; But spite of all his pride, a secret shame Invades his breast at...
Page 632 - He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass Of his Canterbury Tales the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age. Not a single character has escaped him.
Page 128 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 488 - I HEARD a voice from heaven, saying unto me, Write, From henceforth blessed are the dead which die in the Lord : even so saith the Spirit ; for they rest from their labours.
Page 397 - Some beauties yet no Precepts can declare, For there's a happiness as well as care. ( Music resembles Poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master-hand alone can reach. ) '45 If, where the rules not far enough extend, (Since rules were made but to promote their end) Some lucky Licence answer to the full Th' intent propos'd, that Licence is a rule.