The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays, Svazek 1Nathan Drake Suttaby, Evance, and Company, 1811 |
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... Ear tickling , an essay on . 306 317 XXXIX . On the prevalence of an idle and savage curiosity for witnessing public execu- tions : story of the dreadful conse- quences arising from the indulgence of such a propensity ... 328 XL . On ...
... Ear tickling , an essay on . 306 317 XXXIX . On the prevalence of an idle and savage curiosity for witnessing public execu- tions : story of the dreadful conse- quences arising from the indulgence of such a propensity ... 328 XL . On ...
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... ears : but , upon the recovery of his temper , he could with pleasure not only hear their voices , but approach the monsters themselves with great intrepidity . He speaks of sea - lions , whose jaws and tails were capable of seizing and ...
... ears : but , upon the recovery of his temper , he could with pleasure not only hear their voices , but approach the monsters themselves with great intrepidity . He speaks of sea - lions , whose jaws and tails were capable of seizing and ...
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... ear . One gives us pleasure by silent eloquence , the other by vocal imagery . One shews the art of drawing and colouring by the pen , the other with equal elegance expresses a poetical spirit by the pencil . When a poet has formed an ...
... ear . One gives us pleasure by silent eloquence , the other by vocal imagery . One shews the art of drawing and colouring by the pen , the other with equal elegance expresses a poetical spirit by the pencil . When a poet has formed an ...
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... ear sublimer rapture brings , That strain alone the genuine poet sings : That form alone where glows peculiar grace , The genuine painter condescends to trace : No sordid theme will verse or paint admit , Unworthy colours if unworthy ...
... ear sublimer rapture brings , That strain alone the genuine poet sings : That form alone where glows peculiar grace , The genuine painter condescends to trace : No sordid theme will verse or paint admit , Unworthy colours if unworthy ...
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... ear- lier , or later , as they pleased : but Alexander Severus first permitted the public baths to be kept open all the night , in the intense heats of the summer . The poets likewise came to the baths to repeat their compositions ...
... ear- lier , or later , as they pleased : but Alexander Severus first permitted the public baths to be kept open all the night , in the intense heats of the summer . The poets likewise came to the baths to repeat their compositions ...
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admirable Æneid Alibez ancient appeared Aristotle beauty behold body BOSCAWEN Braminto brother countenance court daugh desire Didius Julianus Divine dress ears entertained epic poetry eyes fairy fancy father favour fear Florio FREE-THINKER gentleman give hand happy heart heaven Homer honour human imagination Jupiter kicking kind king King Henry's chapel kingdom labour ladies late learning Leonidas liberty likewise lived look lover LUCRETIUS mandarine manner marriage ment mind morning nature never observed pain paper passed passion Persia person petrifaction pleased pleasure poem poetry poets prince prove Pulcheria queen readers reason riches Romans ruin scene seemed sense sensible shew sight soon soul spirit spleen Texel thing thought tion told took true turned tutior UNIVERSAL SPECTATOR verger Virgil virtue whole wife wish woman writing young youth
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Strana 260 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Strana 182 - Where — taming thought to human pride !The mighty chiefs sleep side by side. Drop upon Fox's grave the tear, 'Twill trickle to his rival's bier ; O'er PITT'S the mournful requiem sound, And Fox's shall the notes rebound. The solemn echo seems to cry, ' Here let their discord with them die. Speak not for those a separate doom, Whom Fate made Brothers in the tomb ; But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like agen...
Strana 328 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd, — It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd, — It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest : it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown...
Strana 122 - To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man: And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began.
Strana 53 - With quicken'd step, Brown night retires. Young day pours in apace, And opens all the lawny prospect wide. The dripping rock, the mountain's misty top, Swell on the sight, and brighten with the dawn.
Strana 4 - ... the Scriptures, and turning his thoughts upon the study of navigation, after the space of eighteen months he grew thoroughly reconciled to his condition.
Strana 182 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Strana 182 - Here, where the end of earthly things Lays heroes, patriots, bards, and kings ; Where stiff the hand, and still the tongue, Of those who fought, .and spoke, and sung ; Here, where the fretted aisles prolong The distant notes of holy song, As if some angel spoke agen, All peace on earth, good-will to men...
Strana 194 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.