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... spirit . Speaking broadly , and allowing for exceptions , the literary merits of the Queen Anne time are due to inven- tion , fancy , and wit , to a genius for satire exhibited in verse and prose , to a regard for correctness of form ...
... spirit . Speaking broadly , and allowing for exceptions , the literary merits of the Queen Anne time are due to inven- tion , fancy , and wit , to a genius for satire exhibited in verse and prose , to a regard for correctness of form ...
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... spirit of English poetry should tend to the degeneration of the national drama was inevitable . For a time , however , the study of French models , both in the drama and in other departments of literature , may have been productive of ...
... spirit of English poetry should tend to the degeneration of the national drama was inevitable . For a time , however , the study of French models , both in the drama and in other departments of literature , may have been productive of ...
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... spirit which is the salt of a nation's life seemed for the time extinct among public men . When Dutch men - of - war appeared at the Nore the con- fusion was great , but there were few resources and few signs of energy in the men to ...
... spirit which is the salt of a nation's life seemed for the time extinct among public men . When Dutch men - of - war appeared at the Nore the con- fusion was great , but there were few resources and few signs of energy in the men to ...
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... spirit declined , had a baleful influence on the latter days of the seventeenth century and on the entire period covered by the age of Pope . The low tone of the age is to be seen in the almost universal corruption which prevailed , in ...
... spirit declined , had a baleful influence on the latter days of the seventeenth century and on the entire period covered by the age of Pope . The low tone of the age is to be seen in the almost universal corruption which prevailed , in ...
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... spirits than of raising all the plants and ripening all the minerals in the earth . ' He will fly to her in Italy at the least notice and ' from thence , ' he adds , ' how far you might draw me and I might run after you , I no more know ...
... spirits than of raising all the plants and ripening all the minerals in the earth . ' He will fly to her in Italy at the least notice and ' from thence , ' he adds , ' how far you might draw me and I might run after you , I no more know ...
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Page 91 - Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is : Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.
Page 110 - I hear a voice, you cannot hear, Which says, I must not stay ; I see a hand, you cannot see, Which beckons me away.
Page 82 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man...
Page 82 - Distinguished link in being's endless chain! Midway from nothing to the Deity! A beam ethereal, sullied and absorpt! Though sullied and dishonoured, still divine! Dim miniature of greatness absolute! An heir of glory ! a frail child of dust: Helpless immortal! insect infinite! A worm! a god! I tremble at myself, And in myself am lost.
Page 117 - Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome — at an inn.
Page 89 - As home he goes beneath the joyous moon. Ye that keep watch in heaven, as earth asleep Unconscious lies, effuse your mildest beams, Ye constellations, while your angels strike, Amid the spangled sky, the silver lyre. Great source of day! best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On Nature write with every beam His praise.
Page 148 - She was a very beautiful woman, of a noble spirit, and there was a dignity in her grief amidst all the wildness of her transport which, methought, struck me with an instinct of sorrow, that, before I was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since.
Page 32 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride...
Page 34 - What though no friends in sable weeds appear, Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year, And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances, and the public show?
Page 51 - See Mystery to Mathematics fly! In vain, they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die. Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public flame, nor private dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine Lo, thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.