The Etonian, Volume 3Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt H. Colburn and Company and C. Knight., 1824 |
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... Poet promiseth to rival with success the fame of the aforesaid Heroes , Statesmen , and Bards . This frenzy does not subside till the conclusion of the poem , which , of course , must end with a thundering Alexandrine , the very beau ...
... Poet promiseth to rival with success the fame of the aforesaid Heroes , Statesmen , and Bards . This frenzy does not subside till the conclusion of the poem , which , of course , must end with a thundering Alexandrine , the very beau ...
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... Poet , but to write verses , i . e . certain articles of rhyme and syntax . The event was soon blazed over the neighbourhood . The sanguine spirit of the old gentleman foresaw nothing but laurels and University rostra for the promising ...
... Poet , but to write verses , i . e . certain articles of rhyme and syntax . The event was soon blazed over the neighbourhood . The sanguine spirit of the old gentleman foresaw nothing but laurels and University rostra for the promising ...
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... Poet , " Let not a monument give you or me hopes , Since not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops . " Yet we say again , that is not the case here : the history of the man whose bones lie beneath is familiar to us ; his deeds , his ...
... Poet , " Let not a monument give you or me hopes , Since not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops . " Yet we say again , that is not the case here : the history of the man whose bones lie beneath is familiar to us ; his deeds , his ...
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... poet ; and I would as lief meet them in an hexameter as in a temple . But it is a very different thing when the person of the only true God is to be introduced in a poem . A pigmy in poetry may trifle with the thunders of Jupiter ; but ...
... poet ; and I would as lief meet them in an hexameter as in a temple . But it is a very different thing when the person of the only true God is to be introduced in a poem . A pigmy in poetry may trifle with the thunders of Jupiter ; but ...
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... poet ; the bravest soldier ; the most skilful physician ; the most able painters , sculptors , and musicians ; -- will all , - if the breath of Prejudice once taint their fame , verge from the zenith of their glory , and be levelled ...
... poet ; the bravest soldier ; the most skilful physician ; the most able painters , sculptors , and musicians ; -- will all , - if the breath of Prejudice once taint their fame , verge from the zenith of their glory , and be levelled ...
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Page 280 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die.
Page 263 - She, wretched matron, forc'd in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain.
Page 238 - A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place.
Page 285 - INFANT. ERE Sin could blight or Sorrow fade, Death came with friendly care ; The opening bud to Heaven conveyed And bade it blossom there.
Page 30 - And above the firmament that n-ii.H over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone : and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.
Page 30 - And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, \ saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.
Page 239 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 272 - And should we thither roam, Its echoes, and its empty tread, Would sound like voices from the dead ! Or shall we cross yon mountains blue, Whose streams my kindred nation quaff'd!
Page 31 - By four cherubic shapes ; four faces each Had wondrous ; as with stars, their bodies all, And wings, were set with eyes; with eyes the wheels Of beryl, and careering fires between...
Page 325 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath. That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.