Poetry for Schools: Designed for Reading and Recitation : the Whole Selected from the Best Poets in the English LanguageW.E. Dean, 1842 - 348 страници |
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... thought That , with the freshness wearing out before My mind could relish what it might have sought If free to choose , I cannot now restore Its health ; but what it then detested , still abhor . " In a note upon these lines this high ...
... thought That , with the freshness wearing out before My mind could relish what it might have sought If free to choose , I cannot now restore Its health ; but what it then detested , still abhor . " In a note upon these lines this high ...
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... thoughts when their actions are for- gotten , and with whom we may be familiar though we can never see them . These are the authors of books , who have re- corded their beautiful ideas that others may be better , and wiser , and happier ...
... thoughts when their actions are for- gotten , and with whom we may be familiar though we can never see them . These are the authors of books , who have re- corded their beautiful ideas that others may be better , and wiser , and happier ...
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... thought of those other mansions of the dead ; and because this noble race thus appeared to regard the grave as their last rest , he meant at once to satirize and reprove their seeming unbelief , by insinuating , that perhaps the ...
... thought of those other mansions of the dead ; and because this noble race thus appeared to regard the grave as their last rest , he meant at once to satirize and reprove their seeming unbelief , by insinuating , that perhaps the ...
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... thought ; but notwithstanding this presump- tion , Pastoral Poetry is out of date — little read , and , at present , not at all written . Many English poets from Chaucer to Shen- stone have written Pastorals . Ambrose Phillips , a ...
... thought ; but notwithstanding this presump- tion , Pastoral Poetry is out of date — little read , and , at present , not at all written . Many English poets from Chaucer to Shen- stone have written Pastorals . Ambrose Phillips , a ...
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... thoughts . This may be obviated by careful and early study , and by a habit of committing our ideas to writing . We ought to know what terms are suitable to ordinary discourse . A person who reads much becomes pedantic or bombastical ...
... thoughts . This may be obviated by careful and early study , and by a habit of committing our ideas to writing . We ought to know what terms are suitable to ordinary discourse . A person who reads much becomes pedantic or bombastical ...
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Страница 248 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms, — the day Battle's...
Страница 31 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Страница 56 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Страница 247 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark!
Страница 300 - Twas autumn, and sunshine arose on the way To the home of my fathers, that welcomed me back. I flew to the pleasant fields traversed so oft In life's morning march, when my bosom was young ; I heard my own mountain-goats bleating aloft, And knew the sweet strain that the corn-reapers sung.
Страница 248 - Gathering" rose! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard ; and heard, too, have her Saxon foes : — How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill ! But with the breath which fills Their mountain-pipe, so fill the mountaineers With the fierce native daring which instils The stirring memory of a thousand years, And Evan's, Donald's fame rings in each clansman's ears...
Страница 48 - Eugh, obedient to the benders will ; The Birch for shaftes ; the Sallow for the mill ; The Mirrhe sweete-bleeding in the bitter wound ; The warlike Beech ; the Ash for nothing ill ; The fruitful! Olive ; and the Platane round ; The carver Holme ; the Maple seeldom inward sound.
Страница 248 - ... mounting in hot haste : the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While thronged the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips, — "The foe! They come! They come!
Страница 300 - By the wolf-scaring faggot that guarded the slain, At the dead of the night a sweet Vision I saw; And thrice ere the morning I dreamt it again.
Страница 84 - Henceforth I learn that to obey is best, And love with fear the only God, to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend...