The Bardiad: A Poem ; in Two CantosLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, etc., etc., Originally published as an ode.-Pref., 1823 - Всего страниц: 286 |
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... Taste and Erudition deserve the immortality of praise ; the propagators of calumny , sensuality , and scepticism , deserve that of reprobation and contempt . To find an apologist for the man who maligns such a Monarch as " George the ...
... Taste and Erudition deserve the immortality of praise ; the propagators of calumny , sensuality , and scepticism , deserve that of reprobation and contempt . To find an apologist for the man who maligns such a Monarch as " George the ...
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... taste ! Why prompt thy Genius to a theme unchaste ? Leave the young fays of rose - bound Erato , Around her throne to wave the bright flambeau ! " The Loves of Angels !! " how can such things be ? How came such feculence reveal'd to ...
... taste ! Why prompt thy Genius to a theme unchaste ? Leave the young fays of rose - bound Erato , Around her throne to wave the bright flambeau ! " The Loves of Angels !! " how can such things be ? How came such feculence reveal'd to ...
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... Taste in life's decline ! If not so faultless , in the censor's eye , Yet soars our MILTON more divinely high ; With scheme more sacred , and with end more true , " " * His matchless Genius " blends the former two ; " As greatest ...
... Taste in life's decline ! If not so faultless , in the censor's eye , Yet soars our MILTON more divinely high ; With scheme more sacred , and with end more true , " " * His matchless Genius " blends the former two ; " As greatest ...
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... taste . Of Dramatists , a countless host we find In every age , of every rank and kind , From roving Thespis , with his face besmear'd , Till SHAKSPEARE , greatest of the race , appear'd ; Whose works to scan is not a province mine ...
... taste . Of Dramatists , a countless host we find In every age , of every rank and kind , From roving Thespis , with his face besmear'd , Till SHAKSPEARE , greatest of the race , appear'd ; Whose works to scan is not a province mine ...
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... Taste , Too oft by low vulgarities debased ; And better themes , in holier garb attir'd , Had still diviner Eulogy requir'd .. Is then RELIGION , ( so endear'd to me , ) Alone denied the charms of Melody ? To every theme must earthly ...
... Taste , Too oft by low vulgarities debased ; And better themes , in holier garb attir'd , Had still diviner Eulogy requir'd .. Is then RELIGION , ( so endear'd to me , ) Alone denied the charms of Melody ? To every theme must earthly ...
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Стр. 190 - The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty Go<J of Jacob : (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel...
Стр. 201 - Who can count the dust of Jacob, And the number of the fourth part of Israel ? Let me die the death of the righteous, And let my last end be like his...
Стр. 187 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar...
Стр. 176 - Less than a god they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so well. What passion cannot Music raise and quell?
Стр. 175 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.
Стр. 196 - See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me : I kill, and I make alive ; I wound, and I heal : neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
Стр. 190 - Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion. Who shall rouse him up? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Стр. 100 - But hark ! a rap comes gently to the door ; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad cam' o'er the moor, To do some errands, and convoy her hame. The wily mother sees the conscious flame Sparkle in Jenny's e'e, and flush her cheek ; With heart-struck anxious care, inquires his name, While Jenny hafflins is afraid to speak : Weel pleased the mother hears it's nae wild, worthless rake. Wi...
Стр. 136 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Стр. 194 - Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy. And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: Thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble. And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, The floods stood upright as a heap, And the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.