Scribbleomania: Or, The Printer's Devil's Polichronicon. A Sublime PoemSherwood, Neely and Jones, 1815 - 341 sidor |
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... stories high , While opposite lattice , in lieu of the sky , A huge stack of chimneys obscures the day's light , And Sol's poorest blaze never gladdens my sight : From this you may guess I am not over wealthy 14 SCRIBBLEOMANIA .
... stories high , While opposite lattice , in lieu of the sky , A huge stack of chimneys obscures the day's light , And Sol's poorest blaze never gladdens my sight : From this you may guess I am not over wealthy 14 SCRIBBLEOMANIA .
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... never knock under ; A phalanx of Harpies , intent upon plunder ; Just deaf to the wailings of genius and merit , ( g ) As mentally ' reft of one germ of true spirit : A race which no venom can too much bespatter ; Whose deeds deserve ...
... never knock under ; A phalanx of Harpies , intent upon plunder ; Just deaf to the wailings of genius and merit , ( g ) As mentally ' reft of one germ of true spirit : A race which no venom can too much bespatter ; Whose deeds deserve ...
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... I'm less able , Than to jabber with each tribe of workmen at Babel . We're told a faint heart will not fair lady win ; Thus I ne'er shall conclude , if I never begin : Then at it , my Pegasus , here's whip and THE WRITER TO HIS POETIC ...
... I'm less able , Than to jabber with each tribe of workmen at Babel . We're told a faint heart will not fair lady win ; Thus I ne'er shall conclude , if I never begin : Then at it , my Pegasus , here's whip and THE WRITER TO HIS POETIC ...
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... never fails to bring to recol- lection the lines of Virgil , taken in a literal sense , where he says , -Tale tuum carmen nobis , divine Poeta , Quale sopor fessis.- As pleasing are thy verses to us , divine Poet , as sleep is to the ...
... never fails to bring to recol- lection the lines of Virgil , taken in a literal sense , where he says , -Tale tuum carmen nobis , divine Poeta , Quale sopor fessis.- As pleasing are thy verses to us , divine Poet , as sleep is to the ...
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... Never surely was there a greater abundance of poets than have sprung up in our days ; and these poets have small reason to complain of coldness on the part of the public . But so strongly have we at present imbibed the spirit of trade ...
... Never surely was there a greater abundance of poets than have sprung up in our days ; and these poets have small reason to complain of coldness on the part of the public . But so strongly have we at present imbibed the spirit of trade ...
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Scribbleomania: Or, The Printer's Devil's Polichronicon. A Sublime Poem William Henry Ireland Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1815 |
Scribbleomania; Or, The Printer's Devil's Polichronicon: A Sublime Poem William Henry Ireland Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1815 |
Scribbleomania: Or, the Printer's Devil's Polichronicon, a Poem, Ed. by ... William Henry Ireland Ingen förhandsgranskning - 2016 |
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Sida 215 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus : Let no such man be trusted.
Sida 112 - Biron they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal: His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor) Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Sida 259 - Holy Scriptures ; and am of opinion,• that this volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been composed.
Sida 242 - If her temper be bad, want of breeding makes her worse, and she grows haughty, insolent, and loud. If she be passionate, want of manners makes her termagant and a scold, which is much at one with lunatic. If she be proud, want of discretion (which still is breeding) makes her conceited, fantastic, and ridiculous. And from these she degenerates to be turbulent, clamorous, noisy, nasty, and the devil.
Sida 259 - The two parts, of which the Scriptures consist, are connected by a chain of compositions, which bear no resemblance, in form or style, to any that can be produced from the stores of Grecian, Indian, Persian, or even Arabian learning. The antiquity of those...
Sida 271 - Sixth, to preach in any place of his Majesty's dominions, though he was a layman ; and he is said to have preached before the King at court, wearing a velvet bonnet, or round cap, a damask gown, and gold chain about his neck..
Sida 334 - THE LIFE OF THE MOST NOBLE ARTHUR, DUKE OF WELLINGTON, from the Period of his first Achievements in India, down to his Invasion of France, and the Peace of Paris in 1814.
Sida 272 - Arriving at the mount of St. Mary's in the stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you. some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, and carefully conserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the Spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation...
Sida 294 - The law against witches does not prove there be any ; but it punishes the malice of those people, that use such means to take away men's lives : if one should profess that by turning his hat thrice, and crying buz, he could take away a man's life, though in truth he could do no such thing : yet this were a just law made by the state, that whosoever should turn his hat thrice, and cry buz, with an intention to take away a man's life, shall be put to death.
Sida 241 - ... comparison: her society is the emblem of sublimer enjoyments; her person is angelic, and her conversation heavenly; she is all softness and sweetness, peace, love, wit, and delight; she is every way suitable to the sublimest wish; and...