A Century of Acrostics on the Most Eminent Names in Literature, Science, and Art, Down to the Present Time: Chronologically ArrangedSimpkin, Marshall & Company, 1855 - 56 من الصفحات |
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AKENSIDE alphabet anagram Angelic band Bard Barham boast BORN BOSWELL BRIGHTEST Brislington Bristol calm CHALMERS charm'd charms Cheshire CICERO Clifton dark deeds deep delight ditto Divine Donhead St dreams DRYDEN e'en e'er eloquence Enchanting fam'd fame fancy's foremost stand glorious glory GOETHE Grinfield HAMLET HANDEL HARVARD COLLEGE hast Heaven Highwick Homer humour inspir'd J. B. Esq JENNER JOHN LAVARS Kingsdon land Livius lov'd majestic melodious mighty MILTON Miss mongst Mudeford Muse N e'er Nature's ne'er nobler O'er Poet poet's Portsea pride Prince proud Psalm quaint Queen Rang'd rare rich music round thee scenes Scotia's SCOTT Sedgehill SHAKSPEARE Shakspeare's Simonet song stirring strain style sublime sweet themes thine Thomas THOMSON thou didst thought thy bright thy genius thy memory thy mind thy Muse thy name thy reign thy soul thy verse Truro WALTON ween wert West Lydford wild wondrous word
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الصفحة 28 - His sovereign favours, and his country loves; Happy next him who to these shades retires, Whom nature charms, and whom the muse inspires, Whom humbler joys of home-felt quiet please, Successive study, exercise, and ease.
الصفحة iv - Thy genius calls thee not to purchase fame In keen iambics, but mild anagram. Leave writing plays, and choose for thy command Some peaceful province in acrostic land. There thou may'st wings display and altars raise, And torture one poor word ten thousand ways.
الصفحة 29 - Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The act of order * to a peopled kingdom : They have a king, and officers of sorts ; Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds ; Which pillage they with merry march bring...
الصفحة 3 - Orphean lyre I sung of chaos and eternal Night, Taught by the heavenly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend, Though hard and rare.
الصفحة 22 - And something previous e'en to taste— 'tis sense; Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven; A light which in yourself you must perceive ; Jones and Le Notre have it not to give.
الصفحة 2 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
الصفحة 13 - O who can tell how calm and sweet, Meek Walton ! shews thy green retreat, When wearied with the tale thy times disclose, The eye first finds thee out in thy secure repose...
الصفحة iii - An ingenious variety, called the Telestich, is that in which the letters beginning the lines spell a word, while the letters ending the lines, when taken together, form a word of an opposite meaning, as in this instance : " U nite and untie are the same — so say yo U.
الصفحة 27 - The excursions of his genius are immense? His imperial fancy has laid all nature under tribute, and has collected riches from every scene of the creation, and every walk of art.
الصفحة 30 - The loud wind roar'd, the rain fell fast ; The white man yielded to the blast ; He sat him down beneath our tree, For weary, sad, and faint was he ; And ah ! no wife or mother's care For him the milk or corn prepare.