A Journal of Summer Time in the CountryScholartis, 1928 - 234 strani |
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Stran 33
... picturesque word , " shoots , " had been already applied to the dove's flight by Dryden , in his musical translation of the lines in Virgil : " At first she flutters ; but at length she springs To smoother flight , and shoots upon her ...
... picturesque word , " shoots , " had been already applied to the dove's flight by Dryden , in his musical translation of the lines in Virgil : " At first she flutters ; but at length she springs To smoother flight , and shoots upon her ...
Stran 37
... picturesque contrast of Bacon and Shakespeare , be- tween whom he sees " as great a difference as between an American forest and a London timber - yard . In the timber - yard , the materials are sawed , and squared , and set across ; in ...
... picturesque contrast of Bacon and Shakespeare , be- tween whom he sees " as great a difference as between an American forest and a London timber - yard . In the timber - yard , the materials are sawed , and squared , and set across ; in ...
Stran 58
... picturesque results , without regard to truth , are the aim proposed . In Rembrandt , light and shade become the conspicuous elements ; and , remembering that darkness overspread the land , he portrays the taking down from the Cross by ...
... picturesque results , without regard to truth , are the aim proposed . In Rembrandt , light and shade become the conspicuous elements ; and , remembering that darkness overspread the land , he portrays the taking down from the Cross by ...
Stran 72
... picturesque tourist in England may find nume- rous pleasure - grounds to reward his industry . It will be sufficient to specify the Chinese garden at Cassiobury , famous in Evelyn's time , with conservatory and pagoda full of porcelain ...
... picturesque tourist in England may find nume- rous pleasure - grounds to reward his industry . It will be sufficient to specify the Chinese garden at Cassiobury , famous in Evelyn's time , with conservatory and pagoda full of porcelain ...
Stran 110
... picturesque interchange of common and woodland , and small en- closures divided by lanes , to which thick borders of hedgerow timber give a character of deep and forest- like richness . " And again : " This shady yet sunny Berkshire ...
... picturesque interchange of common and woodland , and small en- closures divided by lanes , to which thick borders of hedgerow timber give a character of deep and forest- like richness . " And again : " This shady yet sunny Berkshire ...
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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...