Letters and Essays in Prose and VerseE. Moxon, 1834 - 268 страница |
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... joys , and its ambitious strife . Less fitted for the many , than the few That love the Beautiful , and seek the True , Too proud to pay his honour for his fame , To wish a statesman's , or a conqueror's name ,. The Poet shuns the ...
... joys , and its ambitious strife . Less fitted for the many , than the few That love the Beautiful , and seek the True , Too proud to pay his honour for his fame , To wish a statesman's , or a conqueror's name ,. The Poet shuns the ...
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... joy each dawning hint pursues , Yet courts in vain the coy , capricious Muse : For still he finds his struggling powers too weak The dazzling vision , swelling theme to speak : The tuneless sounds , the sullied speech , of earth Refuse ...
... joy each dawning hint pursues , Yet courts in vain the coy , capricious Muse : For still he finds his struggling powers too weak The dazzling vision , swelling theme to speak : The tuneless sounds , the sullied speech , of earth Refuse ...
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... joys enhance , And lend to truth the interest of romance , To teach content , yet bid our hopes aspire , Endear this world , and fit us for a higher . Proud of his high commission he disdains To charm by vulgar , or unhallow'd strains ...
... joys enhance , And lend to truth the interest of romance , To teach content , yet bid our hopes aspire , Endear this world , and fit us for a higher . Proud of his high commission he disdains To charm by vulgar , or unhallow'd strains ...
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... joys , who still shall find , When thy cheek fades , fresh beauties in thy mind , Sweet Soother of those ills that ... Joy , Sages had taught , and Poets sung , in vain , All art were foily , and all science pain- But oh ! ye days when ...
... joys , who still shall find , When thy cheek fades , fresh beauties in thy mind , Sweet Soother of those ills that ... Joy , Sages had taught , and Poets sung , in vain , All art were foily , and all science pain- But oh ! ye days when ...
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... joys , who still shall find , When thy cheek fades , fresh beauties in thy mind , Sweet Soother of those ills that ... Joy , Sages had taught , and Poets sung , in vain , All art were foily , and all science pain- But oh ! ye days when ...
... joys , who still shall find , When thy cheek fades , fresh beauties in thy mind , Sweet Soother of those ills that ... Joy , Sages had taught , and Poets sung , in vain , All art were foily , and all science pain- But oh ! ye days when ...
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acquainted Alps AMBLESIDE amusing ancient Aristotle asso authority beauty behold better bien blessing blest brave breathe called charms cheerful Cicero cloud common conciliating qualities confest delight Dugald Stewart elegant eloquence English EPISTLE Essay evil eyes fair fame fear feelings flower forget forms of speech grace GRASMERE habits happy hear heart heav'n Helvetius hills honour hope hour human humble idiom instance Isocrate JOHN FELL joys Keswick language laws Leibnitz living lov'd metaphysics mind moral nature never night Nihil o'er once opinion orator passion perhaps pleasure Plutarch poet poetry praise proud Quintilian rich ridiculous scarcely sentiments shun SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH sleep smile speak spirit sweet Tacitus Thaxted thee thine thou thoughts Thucydides tion toil tongue tropes true trust truth verse virtues wake walk wish word writers young youth
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Страница 14 - ... attempt may sometimes have, it is always obtained at the expense of purity and of the graces that are natural and appropriate to our language. It is true that when the exigence calls for auxiliaries of all sorts, and common language becomes unequal to the demands of extraordinary thoughts, something ought to be conceded to the necessities which make " ambition virtue;" but the allowances to necessities ought not to grow into a practice.
Страница 9 - ... to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations, and the learned depart from established forms of speech in hope...
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