Poems on Different Subjects: To which is Added a Descriptive Account of a Family Tour to the West; in the Year 1800, in a Letter to a LadyW. Dickson for the benefit of the authoress, 1808 - 220 頁 |
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第 187 頁 - Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border, ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near? that lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall...
第 1 頁 - Hastings, Sally. Poems, on different subjects. To which is added, a descriptive account of a family tour to the West; in the year, 1800.
第 203 頁 - Confufion heard his Voice, and wild Uproar ftood rul'd.' "He then delivered a concife and very nervous Addrefs to them, on the Indecorum of Fighting in the pretence of Ladies, and the want of Gallantry betrayed in being the Caufe of raifing their Terrors. He concluded by reminding them, 'that Intoxication, though excufable in a Gentleman, under certain Circumftances, was by no means an Apology for a Breach of the Laws of Good-breeding; and the Refpect which every Gentleman felt himfelf bound, in...
第 187 頁 - But o'er the twilight groves and dusky caves, Long-sounding aisles and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose: Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods.
第 203 頁 - I know not why It was, that this Officer had fo much Influence over his Companions; but, certain It is, his Commands were as ftrictly adhered to, and held as inviolate, as the Laws of the Medes and Perfians: And for his own part, he carried his Politenefs fo far as to make Love to a Perfon of our Party; whom he entertained with a Song, which confifted of two elegant Lines and a — — Hiccough. "The landlord, by a well-timed piece of Policy, concealed all their Swords; and, in the heat of another...
第 203 頁 - Swords, and heard the clafhiug of them over our heads, we began to entertain ftrong Apprehenfions for our perfonal Safety. We could not wholly conceal our Fear; and one of the leading Officers, approaching the fpot where we fat, begged of us to difmifs our Terrors, as he was himfelf from Lancafter county, and would fhed the laft drop of his heart's Blood, to procure a proper Refpect for every Individual from that place. This gracious Affurance did not, however, very much tend to diffipate our Alarm...
第 68 頁 - Cupid's Bow" and in the "Graces of Venus," "at the request of a friend," whosa name is delicately veiled as "Miss Eliza C " she pours out a passionate ode to Love, relapsing, however, to the pious mood in a "song" of "Celestial Delights," "There living waters freely roll, To eafe the forrows of the foul, And all its pow'rs refine; There peace and pardon fweetly blend: And love, and joy, and grace defcend; And glory all divine. "There fruits of life eternal grow, And feas of pureft pleafures flow;...
第 206 頁 - Nature here Wantons as in her prime, and plays at will Her virgin fancies, pouring forth more sweet, Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss ! MILToN, B.
第 203 頁 - ... Stentor. The more unintelligible they became, the more Vociferation had they recourfe to; until, finding that their Voices produced no better effect, than if they were fhouting to a Whirlwind. and that they became not only incomprehenfible, but difregarded — fuddenly dropping their Arguments — they feized their Swords, and appeared as terrific as Milton's Devils! And 'Confufion' became 'worfe confounded.' "We fat quiet Spectators all night; and there was not a Room in the Houfe unoccupied....
第 202 頁 - Excellence belonged not to him who fpoke beft, but to him who fpoke loudeft and moft; and every Man feemed to have the lungs of a Stentor. The more unintelligible they became, the more Vociferation had they recourfe to; until, finding that their Voices produced no better effect, than if they were fhoutlng to a Whirlwind, and that they became not only incomprehenfible, but difregarded — fuddenly dropping their Arguments — they feized their Swords, and appeared as terrific as Milton's Devils! And...