Literary By-paths in Old EnglandLittle, Brown,, 1906 - 400 страници |
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... dear mother in the churchyard of Stoke Poges , near Slough in Buckinghamshire , by her remains . " Of course this wish was re- spected , but there is no inscription on the tomb to show that the poet is buried there . In 119 IN OLD ENGLAND.
... dear mother in the churchyard of Stoke Poges , near Slough in Buckinghamshire , by her remains . " Of course this wish was re- spected , but there is no inscription on the tomb to show that the poet is buried there . In 119 IN OLD ENGLAND.
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... ; and perhaps the village preacher , who was so dear to all the country round , had to administer many a thrashing to a certain graceless son of his ; and perhaps Paddy Byrne was something of a pedant ; and 160 LITERARY BY - PATHS.
... ; and perhaps the village preacher , who was so dear to all the country round , had to administer many a thrashing to a certain graceless son of his ; and perhaps Paddy Byrne was something of a pedant ; and 160 LITERARY BY - PATHS.
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... dear remains , The tender father , and the gen'rous friend ; The pitying heart that felt for human woe , The dauntless heart that fear'd no human pride ; The friend of man - to vice alone a foe ; For ' e'en his failings lean'd to ...
... dear remains , The tender father , and the gen'rous friend ; The pitying heart that felt for human woe , The dauntless heart that fear'd no human pride ; The friend of man - to vice alone a foe ; For ' e'en his failings lean'd to ...
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... Dear Sir , — A few days ago I received a parcel through the hands of Messrs . Longman containing your poem The Naiad , etc. , ' and a letter , accompanying it , for both which marks of your attention you will accept my cordial thanks ...
... Dear Sir , — A few days ago I received a parcel through the hands of Messrs . Longman containing your poem The Naiad , etc. , ' and a letter , accompanying it , for both which marks of your attention you will accept my cordial thanks ...
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... dear Sir , with great respect , " Your obliged servant , " W. WORDSWORTH . ' " " Although Wordsworth's letter can hardly have been regarded by Reynolds as so encouraging as Byron's , yet , allowing for the difference in the men , he ...
... dear Sir , with great respect , " Your obliged servant , " W. WORDSWORTH . ' " " Although Wordsworth's letter can hardly have been regarded by Reynolds as so encouraging as Byron's , yet , allowing for the difference in the men , he ...
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Страница 106 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Страница 164 - His house was known to all the vagrant train. He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain ; The long-remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast.
Страница 154 - Careless their merits, or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his" failings leaned to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all.
Страница 164 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Страница 162 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs — and God has given my share — I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose...
Страница 113 - In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire. These ears, alas ! for other notes repine ; A different object do these eyes require ; My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine ; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire...
Страница 265 - Bright Star! would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores...
Страница 4 - The nobility of the Spencers has been illustrated and enriched by the trophies of Marlborough ; but I exhort them to consider the Fairy Queen* as the most precious jewel of their coronet.
Страница 183 - This kind of life - the cheerless gloom of a hermit, with the unceasing moil of a galley-slave - brought me to my sixteenth year; a little before which period I first committed the sin of rhyme.
Страница 181 - In hell they'll roast thee like a herrin! In vain thy Kate awaits thy comin! Kate soon will be a woefu