A Journal of Summer Time in the CountryScholartis, 1928 - 234 strani |
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Stran 33
... Virgil : " At first she flutters ; but at length she springs To smoother flight , and shoots upon her wings . " This imitative harmony was sure to win the ear of Coleridge , from whose poetry many exquisite speci- mens might be selected ...
... Virgil : " At first she flutters ; but at length she springs To smoother flight , and shoots upon her wings . " This imitative harmony was sure to win the ear of Coleridge , from whose poetry many exquisite speci- mens might be selected ...
Stran 69
... Virgil's Grove compared with the Tinian Lawn , encircled by stately trees , so full of leaf that no branch or stem was visible - nothing but large undulating masses of foliage . How insignificant be- came all rustic ornament before the ...
... Virgil's Grove compared with the Tinian Lawn , encircled by stately trees , so full of leaf that no branch or stem was visible - nothing but large undulating masses of foliage . How insignificant be- came all rustic ornament before the ...
Stran 85
... Virgil , who was familiar with the scenery as Johnson with the flow of Fleet Street , reverses or transposes the charac- teristic epithet . JOHNSON and Thomson had two feelings in common- a passion SUMMER TIME IN THE COUNTRY 85.
... Virgil , who was familiar with the scenery as Johnson with the flow of Fleet Street , reverses or transposes the charac- teristic epithet . JOHNSON and Thomson had two feelings in common- a passion SUMMER TIME IN THE COUNTRY 85.
Stran 104
... Virgil ; one retiring to investigate the mysteries , the other to enjoy the beauties of Nature . The first lifts her veil as an anatomist ; the second , as a lover . Virgil might desire to imitate , as he certainly wished to honour ...
... Virgil ; one retiring to investigate the mysteries , the other to enjoy the beauties of Nature . The first lifts her veil as an anatomist ; the second , as a lover . Virgil might desire to imitate , as he certainly wished to honour ...
Stran 105
... Virgil , on the contrary , seeks to revive his associations . Mantua and Cremona supply his landscapes . The neighbouring streams of Mincius , Athesis , and Eridanus , and the remote summits of the Alps and Apennines , blend , however ...
... Virgil , on the contrary , seeks to revive his associations . Mantua and Cremona supply his landscapes . The neighbouring streams of Mincius , Athesis , and Eridanus , and the remote summits of the Alps and Apennines , blend , however ...
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AARON HILL admirable Æneid beauty Ben Jonson beneath Berkshire bird bloom bough bright charm Cimabue cloud colour Correggio Cowley Cowper criticism dark delight Dryden English exquisite Faery Queen fancy favourite feeling flowers fountain garden genius Giorgione gleam glow-worm glowing grace grass Gray Greek green Ham House hand happy heard heart hedge hills Iliad Jeremy Taylor Johnson landscape leaf leaves light living look Lord Lucretius memory Milton mind morning nature never nightingale numbers o'er painted painter Paradise Lost pencil Petrarch picture picturesque pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope recollect remark rose round Rubens rural Salvator Rosa says scene shade shadow Shakespeare shining singing Slight circumstances soft song Spenser spring stream summer sweet taste things Thomson thou thought Tibullus Titian trees truth verses village Virgil walk Waller Walpole Warburton watch Willmott wings wood write
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Stran 162 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Stran 108 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Stran 44 - To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Stran 43 - High on th' opponent bank, and ceaseless sings The tedious time away; or else supplies Her place a moment, while she sudden flits To pick the scanty meal. Th...
Stran 196 - The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free.
Stran 59 - Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step and musing gait And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes...
Stran 103 - As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread.
Stran 180 - Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose : Another side, umbrageous grots and caves Of cool recess, o'er which the mantling vine Lays forth her purple grape, and gently creeps Luxuriant; meanwhile murmuring waters fall Down the slope hills, dispersed, or in a lake, That to the fringed bank with myrtle crown'd Her crystal mirror holds, unite their streams.
Stran 162 - WAS ever of opinion that the honest man, who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population. From this motive, I had...
Stran 33 - That we may lift the soul, and contemplate With lively joy the joys we cannot share. My gentle-hearted Charles ! when the last rook Beat its straight path along the dusky air Homewards, I blest it...