Letters to John Aikin, M. D.: On His Volume of Vocal Poetry: and on His "Essays on Song-writing; with a Collection of Such English Songs as are Most Eminent for Poetical Merit" ... to which are Added a Collection of Songs Rev. and Altered by the Editor; with Some Original SongsF. Hodson, 1811 - 472 páginas |
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... how should you , or any reader of the few words I have just quoted from your letter , know whether the two . words were underlined by you or by me ? Yet the sentence has a different effect , if you b 2 PREFACE . xvii.
... how should you , or any reader of the few words I have just quoted from your letter , know whether the two . words were underlined by you or by me ? Yet the sentence has a different effect , if you b 2 PREFACE . xvii.
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... effect , if you are supposed to have laid your stress upon the words , from that which it will have if only I am supposed to call your attention to those words . Therefore the Underlinings mislead , or may mislead . For , if the rule be ...
... effect , if you are supposed to have laid your stress upon the words , from that which it will have if only I am supposed to call your attention to those words . Therefore the Underlinings mislead , or may mislead . For , if the rule be ...
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... effects : a work which teaches the most exalted , yet sober , piety ; piety at once pure and practical , and stated in the most engaging manner , in language at once chaste , forcible and beautiful . I shall arrange the instances under ...
... effects : a work which teaches the most exalted , yet sober , piety ; piety at once pure and practical , and stated in the most engaging manner , in language at once chaste , forcible and beautiful . I shall arrange the instances under ...
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... effect in " meliorating the heart , and improving the intellectual faculties , " and as presenting " ideas to the mind not only in the most pleasing , but in their most im- pressive form . " And , again , " The diction of The Essays on ...
... effect in " meliorating the heart , and improving the intellectual faculties , " and as presenting " ideas to the mind not only in the most pleasing , but in their most im- pressive form . " And , again , " The diction of The Essays on ...
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... effect of poetry , to suppose that the characteristic English manliness of thought has been greatly indebted to him for its preservation amid pre- vailing luxury and fashionable frivolity . " In your Essay on Song - writing ( p . xviii ...
... effect of poetry , to suppose that the characteristic English manliness of thought has been greatly indebted to him for its preservation amid pre- vailing luxury and fashionable frivolity . " In your Essay on Song - writing ( p . xviii ...
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Términos y frases comunes
alterations Anacreontic appears Ballad beautiful blessings blest bliss bosom breast Buttermere celebrated Song censure charms cheerful Clare Hall Collection of Songs Comus conceive consider convivial dear delight despair DIBDIN divine e'er Eloisa to Abelard Essay ev'ry expression eyes fair father fear feel Genesis II give given happy heart heaven Henry Kirke White Honour hope humour JAMES HOGG JAMES PLUMPTRE JOHN AIKIN JOHN BARLEYCORN kind lady last verse Letters on Poetry live Lord Lord Lyttelton lover maid mind moral morn ne'er numbers o'er object passage passion Pastoral pleasure poem poet praise profane profligate racter ROBERT BLOOMFIELD Robin Gray sacred second volume sentiment shew sigh smiles Song beginning soul speak swain sweet taste tear tell thee things thou thought thro truth Virtue Vocal Poetry wife wine wish woman word writing young youth
Pasajes populares
Página xxv - When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room, lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him; 9.
Página 278 - The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things ; that they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Página 345 - When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us ; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are : then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets. But he shall say, I tell you, I know not whence ye are ; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
Página 200 - And the harp and the viol, the tabret and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts : but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
Página 243 - What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread.
Página 440 - BEFORE Jehovah's awful throne, Ye nations bow with sacred joy ; Know that the Lord is God alone, He can create, and he destroy.
Página 439 - That day of wrath, that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay ? How shall he meet that dreadful day...
Página 192 - This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
Página 246 - For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies : and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
Página 429 - So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.