The Poetical Works, with The Virtuoso: A Fragment, Never Before Published, and The Life of the AuthorW. Suttaby and C. Corrall, 1807 - 239 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة xi
... living a poet of as genuine a genius as this kingdom ever produced , Shakespeare alone excepted . By poetical genius , I do not mean the mere talent of making verses , but that glorious enthusiasm of soul , that fine phrenzy , in which ...
... living a poet of as genuine a genius as this kingdom ever produced , Shakespeare alone excepted . By poetical genius , I do not mean the mere talent of making verses , but that glorious enthusiasm of soul , that fine phrenzy , in which ...
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... living image , like the morn That wakes in Zephyr's arms the blushing May , Moves onward ; or as Venus , when she stood Effulgent on the pearly car , and smil'd , Fresh from the deep , and conscious of her form , To see the Tritons tune ...
... living image , like the morn That wakes in Zephyr's arms the blushing May , Moves onward ; or as Venus , when she stood Effulgent on the pearly car , and smil'd , Fresh from the deep , and conscious of her form , To see the Tritons tune ...
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... living fountains in itself contains Of beauteous and sublime : here hand in hand , Sit paramount the Graces ; here enthron'd , Celestial Venus , with divinest airs , Invites the soul to never - fading joy . 485 495 Look then abroad ...
... living fountains in itself contains Of beauteous and sublime : here hand in hand , Sit paramount the Graces ; here enthron'd , Celestial Venus , with divinest airs , Invites the soul to never - fading joy . 485 495 Look then abroad ...
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... living blossoms to adorn My native clime : while far above the flight Of fancy's plume aspiring , I unlock The springs of ancient wisdom ! while I join 600 Thy name , thrice honor'd ! with the immortal praise Of nature , while to my ...
... living blossoms to adorn My native clime : while far above the flight Of fancy's plume aspiring , I unlock The springs of ancient wisdom ! while I join 600 Thy name , thrice honor'd ! with the immortal praise Of nature , while to my ...
الصفحة 43
... living soul of every kind The field of motion and the hour of rest , That all conspir'd to his supreme design , To universal good : with full accord 330 Answering the mighty model he had chosen , 335 The best and fairest of unnumber'd ...
... living soul of every kind The field of motion and the hour of rest , That all conspir'd to his supreme design , To universal good : with full accord 330 Answering the mighty model he had chosen , 335 The best and fairest of unnumber'd ...
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Academus Akenside Amid ancient arms Athens awful band bards beauty beauty's behold blank verse bloom bosom breast breath bright brow charms cheerful Clisthenes Cnossus colours dæmon deeds delight divine doth dread Dryads dwell e'er earth envy eternal fair faithful fame fancy fate fix'd flame flowers forms frame freedom gates of morn genius glad gloom glory groves hand haply harmonious hast hath haunt heart heaven honor'd honors hope hour human immortal Jove laws Lycurgus lyre maid majestic Megacles mind morn mortal Muse Muse's Naiads nature nature's Nymphs o'er passion paths Pindar Pisistratus pleasure pomp praise radiant rill round sacred sage scene scorn shade shine sire smiles smiling band song soul sovran springs steps strain streams sublime sway sweet taught tender Tethys thee things thou thro throne toil tongue truth vale virtue virtue's voice walk whate'er whence wisdom wonder youth
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الصفحة 27 - O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free...
الصفحة 20 - The blue profound, and hovering round the Sun, Beholds him pouring the redundant stream Of light ; beholds his unrelenting sway Bend the reluctant planets to absolve The fated rounds of time. Thence far effused, She darts her swiftness up the long career Of devious comets ; through its burning signs Exulting measures the perennial wheel Of Nature, and looks back on all the stars, Whose blended light, as with a milky zone, Invests the orient.
الصفحة 16 - From Heaven my strains begin; from Heaven descends The flame of genius to the human breast, And love and beauty, and poetic joy And inspiration. Ere the radiant Sun Sprang from the east, or 'mid the vault of night The Moon suspended her serener lamp ; Ere mountains, woods, or streams, adorn'd the...
الصفحة 17 - Then liv'd the almighty One : then, deep retir'd In his unfathom'd essence, view'd the forms, The forms eternal of created things ; The radiant sun, the/ moon's nocturnal lamp, The mountains, woods, and streams, the rolling globe, And wisdom's mien celestial. From the first Of days, on them his love divine he fix'd, His admiration : till in time complete, What he admir'd and lov'd, his vital smile Unfolded into being.
الصفحة 16 - Her sister Liberty will not be far. Be present all ye genii, who conduct The wandering footsteps of the youthful bard, New to your springs and shades : who touch his ear With finer sounds : who heighten to his eye The bloom of Nature, and before him turn The gayest, happiest attitude of things.
الصفحة 19 - The wonderful, the fair. I see them dawn ! I see the radiant visions, where they rise, More lovely than when Lucifer displays His beaming forehead through the gates of morn, \To lead the train of Phoebus and the Spring.
الصفحة iv - I know not. He certainly retained an unnecessary and outrageous zeal for what he called and thought liberty ; a zeal which sometimes disguises from the world, and not rarely from the mind which it possesses, an envious desire of plundering wealth or degrading greatness ; and of which the immediate tendency is innovation and anai;chy, an impetuous eagerness to subvert and confound, with very little care what shall be
الصفحة 22 - Risen from the grave to ease the heavy guilt Of deeds in life conceal'd ; of shapes that walk At dead of night, and clank their chains, and wave The torch of hell around the murderer's bed.
الصفحة 68 - The powers of man : we feel within ourselves His energy divine : he tells the heart, He meant, he made us to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life and being ; to be great like him, , Beneficent and active.
الصفحة 19 - Omnipotent might send him forth, In sight of mortal and immortal powers, As on a boundless theatre, to run The great career of justice, to exalt His generous aim to all diviner deeds, To chase each partial purpose from his breast, And through the mists of passion and of sense, And through the tossing tide of chance and pain, To hold his course unfaltering, while the voice Of Truth and Virtue up the steep ascent Of Nature calls him to his high reward, 'The applauding smile of Heaven...