The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays ...Lackington and Company and J. Mawman, 1817 |
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... scene to seize the imagination with rap- ture ; a poet's language would have run spontane- ously into metre at the sight of it : What a sub- ject , ' said I within myself , is here present for those ingenious bards , who have the happy ...
... scene to seize the imagination with rap- ture ; a poet's language would have run spontane- ously into metre at the sight of it : What a sub- ject , ' said I within myself , is here present for those ingenious bards , who have the happy ...
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... scene begins Of human habitation , thinly group'd Over the meagre earth ; for there no youth No sturdy peasant , who ... scenes With pity not with scorn , and let thy heart , Not wanton with prosperity , but warm With grateful adoration ...
... scene begins Of human habitation , thinly group'd Over the meagre earth ; for there no youth No sturdy peasant , who ... scenes With pity not with scorn , and let thy heart , Not wanton with prosperity , but warm With grateful adoration ...
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... Titanian fires around , And cancels Heaven's high edict ; Nature feels Quick growth and quick decay ; the verdant scene Glitters awhile and vanishes at once . Not such the tints that Albion's landscape wears , Her N ° 57 . 43 OBSERVER .
... Titanian fires around , And cancels Heaven's high edict ; Nature feels Quick growth and quick decay ; the verdant scene Glitters awhile and vanishes at once . Not such the tints that Albion's landscape wears , Her N ° 57 . 43 OBSERVER .
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... scene Enamour'd , native here prolongs his stay , And when his fiery successor at length Warns him from hence , with ling'ring step and slow , And many a stream of falling tears he parts , Like one , whom surly creditors arrest In a ...
... scene Enamour'd , native here prolongs his stay , And when his fiery successor at length Warns him from hence , with ling'ring step and slow , And many a stream of falling tears he parts , Like one , whom surly creditors arrest In a ...
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... sunk the vision of prosperity ; swifter than the shifting of a play - house scene vanished all the enchanting prospect ; a naked lodge in a warren with content had been more enviable in my eye than F 2 N ° 58 . 51 OBSERVER .
... sunk the vision of prosperity ; swifter than the shifting of a play - house scene vanished all the enchanting prospect ; a naked lodge in a warren with content had been more enviable in my eye than F 2 N ° 58 . 51 OBSERVER .
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Page 119 - I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature...
Page 100 - And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: 17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Page 86 - And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph...
Page 128 - I am settled, and bend up Each corporal agent to this terrible feat. Away, and mock the time with fairest show : False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
Page 99 - Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Page 118 - Cannot be ill, cannot be good : if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion...
Page 94 - And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry: 13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon : and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves ; for the time of figs was not yet.
Page 134 - His cloister'd flight; ere to black Hecate's summons The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note.
Page 111 - I may define it to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure and the imperfections with dislike.
Page 157 - Witch. Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake : Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue...