Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860, Том 2

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Страница 176 - FAIR stood the wind for France When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry; But putting to the main, At Caux, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed King Harry.
Страница 199 - Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea. I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known, - cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but...
Страница 192 - SOLDIER'S DREAM Our bugles sang truce — for the night-cloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered, The weary to sleep and the wounded to die.
Страница 177 - With Spanish yew so strong, Arrows a cloth-yard long, That like to serpents stung, Piercing the weather; None from his fellow starts, But playing manly parts, And like true English hearts, Stuck close together.
Страница 174 - Curst be the heart that thought the thought, And curst the hand that fired the shot, When in my arms Burd Helen dropt, And died to succour me ! 0 think na ye my heart was sair, When my love dropt down and spak' nae mair ! There did she swoon wi' meikle care, On fair Kirconnell lea.
Страница 199 - And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea, But never a moment ceased the fight of the one and the fifty-three.
Страница 198 - THE winds were yelling, the waves were swelling, The sky was black and drear, When the crew with eyes of flame brought the ship without a name Alongside the last Buccaneer. " Whence flies your sloop full sail before so fierce a gale, When all others drive bare on the seas ? Say, come ye from the shore of the holy Salvador, Or the gulf of the rich Caribbees...
Страница 113 - Twas twilight, and I bade you go, But still you held me fast; It was the time of roses, We plucked them as we passed!
Страница 175 - ... make men cast all care away. The time of war is come, prepare your corslet, spear, and shield, Methinks I hear the drum strike doleful marches to the field : Tantara ! Tantara ! the trumpets sound, which makes our hearts with joy abound, The roaring guns are heard afar, and...
Страница 95 - Porson relate to Wordsworth ; and they connect Mr. Landor with a body of groundless criticism, for which vainly he will seek to evade his responsibility by pleading the caution posted up at the head of his Conversations, viz. — ' Avoid a mistake in attributing to the writer any opinions in this book but what are spoken under his own name.

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