“Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part;
Nature in him was almost lost in Art.”
To Sir Thomas Hammer on his Edition of Shakespeare.
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Источник: The Passions, an Ode for Music (1747), Line 57. Compare: "Sweetest melodies / Are those that are by distance made more sweet", William Wordsworth, Personal Talk, stanza 2.
“When Music, heavenly maid, was young,
While yet in early Greece she sung.”
Источник: The Passions, an Ode for Music (1747), Line 1.
“Fill'd with fury, rapt, inspired.”
Источник: The Passions, an Ode for Music (1747), Line 10.
Samuel Johnson The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1781), "William Collins" http://www.bookrags.com/ebooks/4678/50.html <br class="br">Criticism
“O Music! sphere-descended maid,
Friend of Pleasure, Wisdom's aid!”
Источник: The Passions, an Ode for Music (1747), Line 95.
Источник: Ode to Evening (1747) http://www.netpoets.com/classic/poems/017002.htm, line 9.
“Well may your hearts believe the truths I tell:
'T is virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.”
Oriental Eclogues. 1, Line 5. Compare: "That virtue only makes our bliss below, / And all our knowledge is ourselves to know", Alexander Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle iv, line 397.
“By fairy hands their knell is rung,
By forms unseen their dirge is sung.”
Источник: How Sleep the Brave (1748), line 7.
“How sleep the brave, who sink to rest,
By all their country’s wishes blest!”
Вариант: How sleep the brave who sink to rest
By all their country's wishes blest!
Источник: How Sleep the Brave (1748), line 1.
Источник: Ode Occasioned by the Death of Mr. Thomson, (1748) http://www.luminarium.org/eightlit/collins/thomson.php, line 1.
Источник: Ode to Evening (1747) http://www.netpoets.com/classic/poems/017002.htm, line 21.
Ode written in the year 1746. A variation of the first two lines is "By hands unseen the knell is rung; / By fairy forms their dirge is sung".
“Love of peace, and lonely musing,
In hollow murmurs died away.”
Источник: The Passions, an Ode for Music (1747), Line 67.
“T was sad by fits, by starts 't was wild.”
Источник: The Passions, an Ode for Music (1747), Line 28.
Источник: Ode Occasioned by the Death of Mr. Thomson, (1748) http://www.luminarium.org/eightlit/collins/thomson.php, line 29.
