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... odes possess many exquisite graces of expression , too subtly elegant to be fortunately transposed into another language ; but I am surprised at the fre- quently violent transitions in the ideas of these odes . They sometimes put me in ...
... odes possess many exquisite graces of expression , too subtly elegant to be fortunately transposed into another language ; but I am surprised at the fre- quently violent transitions in the ideas of these odes . They sometimes put me in ...
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... odes , and he- roic verses , to fabricating riddles and charards ! Thus employed , his mind is somewhat in the same predicament with Hercules's body , when he sat amongst the women , and handled the dis- taff . Dr Darwin finds himself ...
... odes , and he- roic verses , to fabricating riddles and charards ! Thus employed , his mind is somewhat in the same predicament with Hercules's body , when he sat amongst the women , and handled the dis- taff . Dr Darwin finds himself ...
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... odes of Horace * . You seem to pre- fer the ode addressed to Melpomene . My fa- vourite is that which recommends a frugal sacri- fice ; it appears to me more pleasing , though per- haps less sublime . Scarce an hour has past since Mr ...
... odes of Horace * . You seem to pre- fer the ode addressed to Melpomene . My fa- vourite is that which recommends a frugal sacri- fice ; it appears to me more pleasing , though per- haps less sublime . Scarce an hour has past since Mr ...
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... odes from Horace . If I had ever entertained the idea of translating or paraphrasing the lyric compositions of that very agreeable poet regularly , I should have probably renounced it after having read your last letter ; but I had no ...
... odes from Horace . If I had ever entertained the idea of translating or paraphrasing the lyric compositions of that very agreeable poet regularly , I should have probably renounced it after having read your last letter ; but I had no ...
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... odes of mine beautiful . His partial regard for me may render his praise too vivid for their merit ; but that praise cannot be bestowed , with any degree of truth , upon the entire translations of the Horace- odes which the scholars ...
... odes of mine beautiful . His partial regard for me may render his praise too vivid for their merit ; but that praise cannot be bestowed , with any degree of truth , upon the entire translations of the Horace- odes which the scholars ...
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Page 218 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice...
Page 360 - Thyself how wondrous then! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these Thy lowest works : yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine. Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, Angels ! for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night, Circle his throne rejoicing : ye in heaven, On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Page 356 - Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
Page 110 - This pow'r has praise that virtue scarce can warm, Till fame supplies the universal charm. Yet Reason frowns on War's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name; And mortgag'd states their grandsires...
Page 19 - Thou sun, of this great world both eye and soul, Acknowledge him thy greater ; sound his praise In thy eternal course, both when thou climb'st, And when high noon hast gain'd, and when thou fall'st.
Page 207 - Wing'd with red lightning and impetuous rage, Perhaps hath spent his shafts, and ceases now To bellow through the vast and boundless deep.
Page 219 - Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers.
Page 360 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 218 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill...
Page 66 - he would hang a dog that read the ' Lycidas ' of Milton twice." " What, then," replied I, " must become of me, who can say it by heart ; and who often repeat it to myself with a delight, which grows by what it feeds upon ? " " Die," returned the growler,