10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DELIGHTLESS»
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Oxford local examinations. Thomson's Spring: with a life of ...
As yet the trembling year is unconfirmed, And Winter oft at eve resumes the
breeze, Chills the pale morn, and bids his driving sleets 20 Deform the day
delightless ; so that scarce however, makes like govern a noun or pronoun in the
objective ...
James Thomson, Walter McLeod,
1863
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Translating Beowulf: Modern Versions in English Verse
Other words that stand out here as mannered or curious are Ungrievous, krakens
, becrimsoned, seething48 and delightless. Such words may not be archaic but,
with the exception of the weird and wonderful krakens as a term for sea-monsters
...
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Lectures on English Poetry from the Reign of Edward the ...
But how are the beauty and fidelity of the picture deformed by such harsh
inversions and tumid epithets as “day delightless,“ and “bill ingulphed.” Cowper
has not Thomson's genius, but he has much more taste. His range is neither so
wide, nor ...
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Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets
Frequently the adjective is tossed behind the substantive, just for the sake of the
metre, and regardless of all other effect, as,— " driving sleets Deform the day
delightless ;” instead of the delightless day. His adverbs are continually lopped of
...
Un- rhymed verse requires something to diversify it ; one phrase quoted by Mr.
Howitt, " the day delightless," where the position of the adjective is blamed, is not
unpleasing to our ear, when read in the beautiful passage, from which it is ...
Unrhymed verse requires something to diversify it; one phrase quoted by Mr.
Howitt, “ the (lay delightless," where the position of the ad Jectivc is blamed, is not
unpleasing to our car, when read in the beautiful passage, from which it is ...
James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch,
1847
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A new universal etymological technological, and pronouncing ...
DELIBEBATJ VELY— DELIGHTFULNESS. DELIGHTLESS— DELIRIOUS.
Delibebatively, de-lib'nr-a-tiv-le, ad. In a deliberate manner. Delicacy, del'e-ka-se,
t. (delicatesse, Fr.) Daintiness; pleasantness to the taste; nicety in the choice of
food; ...
John Craig (F.G.S.),
1848
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A Collection of Poems: Occasionally Writ on Several Subjects
How long delightless, must I mourn thy Stay ? Relieve my Pains, arise, and come
away : While thou art absent, ev'ry Thing to please, Not once enlivens Health, but
turns Disease. All Day in sad and solemn Tears I mourn, And wisti (I know not ...
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The Literary Remains of the Late Henry Neele: ... Consisting ...
Chills the pale morn, and bids his driving sleets Deform the day delightless ; so
that scarce The bittern knows his time, with bill ingulf d To shake the sounding
marsh, or from the shore The plovers when to scatter o'er the heath, And sing
their ...
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A New Universal Etymological, Technological and Pronouncing ...
Embracing All Terms Used in Art, Science, and Literature John Craig (
lexicographer.) DELIBERATIVELY— DELIGHTFULNESS. DELIGHTLESS—
DELIRIOUS. Deliberatively, de-lib'ur-a-tdv-le, ad. In a deliberate manner.
Delicacy, dcl'e-ka-se, ...
John Craig (lexicographer.),
1849