Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807, Volume 2 |
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... poetic critic , during several years , in the Monthly Review . That was Mr Bentley , partner with the great Wedgewood . We found a classic spirit , and elegance in his criticisms , which rendered them at once just and delightful . He ...
... poetic critic , during several years , in the Monthly Review . That was Mr Bentley , partner with the great Wedgewood . We found a classic spirit , and elegance in his criticisms , which rendered them at once just and delightful . He ...
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... poetic page . Doubtless those great authors felt , as strongly as myself , the important power they possess of ... poet are all the privileges which enable him to say much in little . Pity that you thus suffer prejudices to spoil , at ...
... poetic page . Doubtless those great authors felt , as strongly as myself , the important power they possess of ... poet are all the privileges which enable him to say much in little . Pity that you thus suffer prejudices to spoil , at ...
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... poets ought always , upon established pri- vilege , to omit , wherever their omission does not produce obscurity . Every one accustomed to poetic language , and such only is it of consequence to please , will , I am sure , understand ...
... poets ought always , upon established pri- vilege , to omit , wherever their omission does not produce obscurity . Every one accustomed to poetic language , and such only is it of consequence to please , will , I am sure , understand ...
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... poetic gilding . It would jar me to part with the epithet natural for the temper of the dog . I am proud of your praise of the * twentyfourth quatrain , which is one of my greatest favourites in the poem . Stanza 25th , I think the word ...
... poetic gilding . It would jar me to part with the epithet natural for the temper of the dog . I am proud of your praise of the * twentyfourth quatrain , which is one of my greatest favourites in the poem . Stanza 25th , I think the word ...
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... the drowsy earth , Though faint with mid - day toil , he scorns repose , Leaves the warm comforts of thy glowing hearth , To guard thy slumbers , and appal thy foes . * The first line of the 31st pleads the poetic 14 LETTER II .
... the drowsy earth , Though faint with mid - day toil , he scorns repose , Leaves the warm comforts of thy glowing hearth , To guard thy slumbers , and appal thy foes . * The first line of the 31st pleads the poetic 14 LETTER II .
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Page 263 - These gifts to man the laws' of God ordain, These gifts he grants who grants the pow'r to gain; With these celestial wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not
Page 299 - virtuous son, Now that the fields are dank, and ways are mire, Where shall we sometimes meet, and by the fire Help waste a sullen day what may be won Prom the hard season
Page 299 - nor spun. What neat repast shall feast us, light, and choice, Of Attic taste, with wine, whence we may rise To hear the lute well touch'd, or artful voice Warble immortal notes, and Tuscan air? He, who of these delights can judge, and spare To interpose them oft, is not unwise. With what tender pensive grace is that picture of the gloomy season, in the opening, brought to the
Page 13 - The dead man's knell Is there scarce ask'd for whom; and good men's lives - Expire before the flowers in their caps, Dying, or crc they
Page 267 - aggregate, are as freely used in ethic, metaphysic, or didactic pbetry', as in prose; “Remembrance and reflection, how allied! What thin partitions sense from thought divide !“ If in the sentence, quoted in my last from
Page 355 - more' plenteous leisure, that has fifteen volumes of the glorious Richardson upon their shelves? -. — “Who but rather turns To heaven's bright orb his unrestrained view, Than to the glimmering of a waxen flame! Who, that from Alpine heights his labouring eye,
Page 11 - to taste? Forbid who will, none shall from me with-hold Longer, thy offer'd good.” “Whether it be envy or reserve that forbids others to taste of thee,” is the implied meaning; and, to people used to poetry, surely sufficiently implied; while the ellipsis, by curtailing the words, gives rapid force to the meaning. Again, in the same poem, Book Tenth, line 245, —“ Whatever draws me, Or sympathy,
Page 382 - human heart, that Shakespeare of prose, Richardson, express himself upon this subject: “You are, all of you, too rich to be happy, child; for must not ‘each of' you, by the constitutions of your family, be put upon making yourselves still richer; and so every
Page 27 - hero. To me alone One of old Gideon's miracles was shown; For upon all the quicken'd ground ‘The fruitful seed of Heaven did brooding lie, And nothing but the muses fleece was dry.” Then the public hireling critics are not
Page 124 - the ocean's bed, But yet, anon, repairs his drooping head; And tricks his beams, and with