The poems, with critical notes; a life of the author; and an essay on his poetry; by the Rev. John MitfordJ. Mawman, 1816 |
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Page iii
... mind , was worthy of his warmest attachment . The purity of taste , indeed , as well as the proficiency in literature which the letters of West display , were remarkable at his age ; and his studious and pensive habits of mind , his ...
... mind , was worthy of his warmest attachment . The purity of taste , indeed , as well as the proficiency in literature which the letters of West display , were remarkable at his age ; and his studious and pensive habits of mind , his ...
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... mind by genius and by virtue ; which have supplied the fancy with its earliest images , and are connected in the memory with its most lasting associations . In such moments as these , we ap- pear to be able suddenly to arrest the ...
... mind by genius and by virtue ; which have supplied the fancy with its earliest images , and are connected in the memory with its most lasting associations . In such moments as these , we ap- pear to be able suddenly to arrest the ...
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... mediators , and without reserving one disagreeable circumstance for the mind to brood upon in silence . " See Walpole's Works , vol . v . p . 389 . VOL . I. b Strawberry - Hill , when he came , he without THE LIFE OF GRAY . ix.
... mediators , and without reserving one disagreeable circumstance for the mind to brood upon in silence . " See Walpole's Works , vol . v . p . 389 . VOL . I. b Strawberry - Hill , when he came , he without THE LIFE OF GRAY . ix.
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... mind deeply impressed with the solemnity of the situation ; where " every precipice and cliff was pregnant with Religion and Poetry . ” * In two months after the return of Gray in 1741 , his father died , † his constitution being worn ...
... mind deeply impressed with the solemnity of the situation ; where " every precipice and cliff was pregnant with Religion and Poetry . ” * In two months after the return of Gray in 1741 , his father died , † his constitution being worn ...
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... mind had already too far affected a body , from the first weak and delicate . " 6 West was indeed at this time rapidly declining in health , and had gone into Hertfordshire for the benefit of the air . To him , Gray sent part of his ...
... mind had already too far affected a body , from the first weak and delicate . " 6 West was indeed at this time rapidly declining in health , and had gone into Hertfordshire for the benefit of the air . To him , Gray sent part of his ...
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Page 16 - Alas! regardless of their doom The little victims play; No sense have they of ills to come Nor care beyond to-day: Yet see how all around 'em wait The ministers of human fate And black Misfortune's baleful train!
Page 107 - The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Page 123 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath, and near his favourite tree ; Another came : nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he : The next, with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne, — Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 119 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.
Page 116 - Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Page clxvi - The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool ; The playful children just let loose from school ; The watch-dog's voice that bayed the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind ; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And filled each pause the nightingale had made.
Page 122 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 112 - Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!
Page 34 - Slow melting strains their queen's approach declare: Where'er she turns the Graces homage pay. With arms sublime, that float upon the air, In gliding state she wins her easy way: O'er her warm cheek and rising bosom move 40 The bloom of young desire and purple light of love.
Page 117 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.