The SeasonsA.S. Barnes, 1856 - 335 pages |
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... CHARACTER ; AND NOTES , EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL , BY JAMES ROBERT BOYD , EDITOR OF THE PARADISE LOST , AND OF YOUNG'S NIGHT THOUGHTS , WITH NOTES , ETC. " The Seasons , " - a Poem , which , founded as it is upon the unfading beauties ...
... CHARACTER ; AND NOTES , EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL , BY JAMES ROBERT BOYD , EDITOR OF THE PARADISE LOST , AND OF YOUNG'S NIGHT THOUGHTS , WITH NOTES , ETC. " The Seasons , " - a Poem , which , founded as it is upon the unfading beauties ...
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... , I have endeavored , by the copiousness and elementary character of many of the notes , to make the study of them an introduction and preparation for the general reading of poetry to advan tage 4 PLAN AND DESIGN OF THIS EDITION .
... , I have endeavored , by the copiousness and elementary character of many of the notes , to make the study of them an introduction and preparation for the general reading of poetry to advan tage 4 PLAN AND DESIGN OF THIS EDITION .
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... character , and to lead us into the angelic pleasure of communion with the Great Author of all good - of all that is beautiful , grand , harmonious , and admirable in creation ; for they " Whom Nature's works can charm , with God ...
... character , and to lead us into the angelic pleasure of communion with the Great Author of all good - of all that is beautiful , grand , harmonious , and admirable in creation ; for they " Whom Nature's works can charm , with God ...
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... economy of ideas and senti- ment something of a character and a color correspondent to the beauty , vicissitude , and grandeur which continu- 1 * PLAN AND DESIGN OF THIS EDITION . 9 alone when we meet them: we learn their habits...
... economy of ideas and senti- ment something of a character and a color correspondent to the beauty , vicissitude , and grandeur which continu- 1 * PLAN AND DESIGN OF THIS EDITION . 9 alone when we meet them: we learn their habits...
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... character of the poet , and which have been carefully gathered from the writings of men of a highly cultivated taste , constitute another feature of this edition which will commend it to the intelligent reader , and prepare him for a ...
... character of the poet , and which have been carefully gathered from the writings of men of a highly cultivated taste , constitute another feature of this edition which will commend it to the intelligent reader , and prepare him for a ...
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admirable Æneid amid ancient animal Autumn beam beauty beneath birds blank verse blaze bloom Boötes breath breeze bright character charm Cincinnatus clouds color death deep delight E'en earth ether fancy flame flocks flood flower forest genius gloom glow grace Greece grove Hagley Park happy heart heaven hills Hugh Miller human Julius Cæsar light lively luxury Lycurgus mind mingled mix'd mountains Muse Musidora Nature Nature's night o'er Oronoque Paradise Lost passions Phocion plain poem poet poetic poetry poison'd rage reign rise river round rural Samuel Johnson scene Scotland Seasons shade shining smiling snow soft song soul Southdean spirit Spring storm stream sublime Summer swain sweet swelling taste tempest thee Thessaly Thomson thou thought Timoleon toil trees tribes vale verse virtue walks wave whole wild winds wing Winter wintry wonders woods youth
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Page 96 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 110 - Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page 283 - In vain for him th' officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing and the vestment warm; In vain his little children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home.
Page 284 - Of these, and all the thousand nameless ills, That one incessant struggle render life, One scene of toil, of suffering, and of fate, Vice in his high career would stand appall'd, And heedless rambling Impulse learn to think; The conscious heart of Charity would warm, And her wide wish Benevolence dilate; The social tear would rise, the social sigh; And into clear perfection, gradual bliss, Refining still, the social passions work.
Page 211 - Beneath the shelter of encircling hills, A myrtle rises, far from human eye, And breathes its balmy fragrance o'er the wild • So flourish'd, blooming, and unseen by all, The sweet Lavinia ; till at length compell'd By strong Necessity's supreme command, With smiling patience in her looks, she went To glean Palemon's fields.
Page 330 - A secret world of wonders in thyself, Sound his stupendous praise; whose greater voice Or bids you roar, or bids your roarings fall. Soft roll your incense, herbs, and fruits, and flowers, In mingled clouds to him whose sun exalts, Whose breath perfumes you, and whose pencil paints.
Page 17 - IN yonder grave a Druid lies, Where slowly winds the stealing wave ! The year's best sweets shall duteous rise, To deck its poet's sylvan grave ! In yon deep bed of whispering reeds His airy harp ' shall now be laid ; That he whose heart in sorrow bleeds May love through life the soothing shade.
Page 14 - Oh sympathizing love of others' bliss, Where will you 'find another breast like his? Such was the Man — the Poet well you know : Oft has he touched your hearts with tender woe : Oft in this crowded house, with just applause You heard him teach fair Virtue's purest laws; For his chaste Muse employ'd her heaven-taught lyre None but the noblest passions to inspire, Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line, which dying he could wish to blot.
Page 330 - As home he goes beneath the joyous moon. Ye that keep watch in heaven, as earth asleep Unconscious lies, effuse your mildest beams, Ye constellations, while your angels strike, Amid the spangled sky, the silver lyre. Great source of day ! best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On nature write with every beam His praise.
Page 268 - Winter comes, to rule the varied year, Sullen and sad, with all his rising train — Vapours, and clouds, and storms. Be these my theme ; These, that exalt the soul to solemn thought And heavenly musing. Welcome, kindred glooms ! Congenial horrors, hail ! With frequent foot, Pleased have I, in my cheerful morn of life, When nursed by careless Solitude I lived, And sung of Nature...