With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical Robert Anderson. د For a Jew many people the master mistook , Whose Levites were scullions , his high - priest a cook ; And though he design'd our religion to alter , When they saw the burnt ...
... د SELECT WORKS OF THE BRITISH POETS , IN A CHRONOLOGICAL SERIES FROM FALCONER TO SIR WALTER SCOTT . 385-2 WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL NOTICES . DESIGNED AS A CONTINUATION OF DR . AIKIN'S BRITISH POET S. BY JOHN FROST , A.Μ ...
... father fighs From the remembrace of his dying fon ; When death has fever'd , with a long farewell , The lover from the object of defire , In the full bloom of youth , and leaves the wretch , To footh affliction in the well - known ...
... English poetry was the appearance of some one not only endowed with poetic genius and an intellect cultivated with the best scholarship of the age , but also adding ... د QUALITY OF CHAUCER'S POETRY . 93 or country , 92 LECTURE THIRD .
... poem to the memory of Sir Ifaac Newton , prefixed to the " View of Sir Iaac Newton's P ifophy , " published in ... د But there's a youth that you can name , Who needs no leading ftrings to fame , Whofe quick maturity of brain The ...
With Biographical and Critical Notices, and an Essay on English Poetry Thomas Campbell. The roaring of the cannon ... د , The Mirror for Magistrates " was intended to cele- brate the chief unfortunate personages in English history ...
... poet's part in the transaction met with the royal approbation ; for the old king dying , one of the first acts of the prince , on his accession , was to confirm his father's grants to him , with an additional one , as we have observed ...
... د UNIVERSAL PASSION ; IN SEVEN CHARACTERISTICAL SATIRES . -Fulgente trahit constrictos gloria curru Non minus ignotos generosis . Hor . SATIRE I. TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF DORSET . -Tanto major Famæ sitis est , quam Virtutis . Juv . Sat ...
Samuel Johnson. He is supposed to have fallen , by his father's death , into the hands of his uncle , a vintner * near Charing- cross , who fent him for some time to Dr. Busby , at Westminster ; but , not intending to give him any ...
... English language . ECLOGUE I. i د THIS eclogue , which is entitled Selim , or the Shepherd's Moral , as there is no- thing dramatic in the subject , may be thought the least entertaining of the four : but it is by no means the least ...