The Poems of William CollinsH. Frowde, 1907 - 90 страници |
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... Poets ; one letter by Collins pre- served in Seward's Literary Anecdotes ; and many stray references in contemporary publications . To these must be added the results of the extensive and scholarly researches of editors , notably ...
... Poets ; one letter by Collins pre- served in Seward's Literary Anecdotes ; and many stray references in contemporary publications . To these must be added the results of the extensive and scholarly researches of editors , notably ...
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... poet's subsequent performances . During these years at Winchester Collins is said to have also written the song , ' Young Damon of the vale is dead ' ; and it is certain that he had begun the Persian Eclogues before he left school . The ...
... poet's subsequent performances . During these years at Winchester Collins is said to have also written the song , ' Young Damon of the vale is dead ' ; and it is certain that he had begun the Persian Eclogues before he left school . The ...
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... poet was usually of a warm temper . He was soon quit of Oxford and its Philistinism and essays and discipline . The migration to London was ostensibly due to disgust because he did not obtain a fellowship ; but really and more naturally ...
... poet was usually of a warm temper . He was soon quit of Oxford and its Philistinism and essays and discipline . The migration to London was ostensibly due to disgust because he did not obtain a fellowship ; but really and more naturally ...
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... poet lost his mother too , on July 6 , 1744 , and quickly dissipated the small property which she left to him . He had taken his B.A. degree in November , 1743 , and the natural date for resigning his demyship would be July 16 , 1744 ...
... poet lost his mother too , on July 6 , 1744 , and quickly dissipated the small property which she left to him . He had taken his B.A. degree in November , 1743 , and the natural date for resigning his demyship would be July 16 , 1744 ...
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... poet , who was then living in Kew Foot Lane , Richmond ; by him Collins is said to have been introduced to the Prince of Wales . Many of his days were spent at Richmond , either with Thomson or with a neighbour , John Ragsdale , to ...
... poet , who was then living in Kew Foot Lane , Richmond ; by him Collins is said to have been introduced to the Prince of Wales . Many of his days were spent at Richmond , either with Thomson or with a neighbour , John Ragsdale , to ...
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ANTISTROPHE Bard blest Bow'r breathe charm Chichester Circassia Collins's Colonel Martin Colonel Ross Death of Colonel delight demyship drest dwell edition Ev'n ev'ry Eyes fair Fairy Fancy Fear Feet Flow'rs folding Star fond friends Gentleman's Magazine gentlest Gilbert White Grief Grove hail Hand haunt hear Heart Heav'n honour Hour Isle John Home John Ragsdale Johnson join'd Joseph Warton letter lived London lov'd Love magic Maid melting midst Mind mourn Muse Myrtles ne'er Numbers Nymph o'er Oxford Passions Payne pensive Persian Eclogues Pity Pity's Plains poems poet Poet's Poetical possest pour'd Pow'r Queen's College Rage retir'd round rove Scene Shade Shepherds Shrine Sir Thomas Hanmer sister Song Sons of Soul sooth Sophocles Soul Sound Spring stanza sullen sung Swain sweet Tears Thee Thomas Warton Thou thought thro Toil Vale wild William Collins Winchester College Wizzard written Youth ἐν
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Страница 58 - He threw his blood-stain'd sword in thunder down ; And with a withering look The war-denouncing trumpet took And blew a blast so loud and dread, Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe ! And ever and anon he beat...
Страница 58 - ... twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure? Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would her touch the strain prolong; And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She...
Страница 40 - How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
Страница 60 - Can well recall what then it heard. Where is thy native simple heart Devote to Virtue, Fancy, Art?
Страница 52 - midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams ! Or if chill blust'ring winds, or driving rain, Prevent my willing feet ; be mine the hut That, from the mountain's side, Views wilds, and swelling floods, And hamlets brown, and dim-discovered spires ! And hears their simple bell ! and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil...
Страница 51 - Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises, 'midst the twilight path Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum: Now teach me, maid composed, To breathe some softened strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit, As, musing...
Страница 58 - Poured through the mellow horn her pensive soul : And, dashing soft from rocks around, Bubbling runnels joined the sound ; Through glades and glooms the mingled measure stole, Or, o'er some haunted stream, with fond delay, Round an holy calm diffusing, Love of peace, and lonely musing In hollow murmurs died away.
Страница 64 - And mid the varied landscape weep. But thou, who own'st that earthy bed, Ah ! what will every dirge avail? Or tears which love and pity shed, That mourn beneath the gliding sail?
Страница 51 - O'erhang his wavy bed: Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises, 'midst the twilight path Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum...
Страница 63 - Then maids and youths shall linger here, And while its sounds at distance swell, Shall sadly seem in pity's ear To hear the woodland pilgrim's knell.