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... frequently fail him in expressing all he feels and wishes to say , but there is a vitality about it which the stone and the canvas cannot represent . What fine chisel ever yet cut breath ? The painter might depict to us poor Lear raving ...
... frequently fail him in expressing all he feels and wishes to say , but there is a vitality about it which the stone and the canvas cannot represent . What fine chisel ever yet cut breath ? The painter might depict to us poor Lear raving ...
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... e.g. rough , through ; wreath , breath , would be inadmissible as rhymes . Such pairs as I , eye ; lyre , liar , are assonances , not rhymes . In some of our Alliteration is the frequent recurrence of the same sound at B 2 PROSODY . 3.
... e.g. rough , through ; wreath , breath , would be inadmissible as rhymes . Such pairs as I , eye ; lyre , liar , are assonances , not rhymes . In some of our Alliteration is the frequent recurrence of the same sound at B 2 PROSODY . 3.
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Robert Frederick Brewer. Alliteration is the frequent recurrence of the same sound at the beginning of words or syllables in the same verse ; it is the chief characteristic of Anglo - Saxon and early English poetry : e . g . The bookful ...
Robert Frederick Brewer. Alliteration is the frequent recurrence of the same sound at the beginning of words or syllables in the same verse ; it is the chief characteristic of Anglo - Saxon and early English poetry : e . g . The bookful ...
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... frequently introduced ; the latter consisted of quaint dialogues , and frequently of furious disputes between characters personating abstract virtues and vices , the devil being the important one , as he always overcame the vices , and ...
... frequently introduced ; the latter consisted of quaint dialogues , and frequently of furious disputes between characters personating abstract virtues and vices , the devil being the important one , as he always overcame the vices , and ...
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... frequently made use of it , and em- bodied some of their most beautiful thoughts in this form , it continued to be looked down upon by English writers as an alien , unsuited to our northern tongue , and too crippling to the airy fancy ...
... frequently made use of it , and em- bodied some of their most beautiful thoughts in this form , it continued to be looked down upon by English writers as an alien , unsuited to our northern tongue , and too crippling to the airy fancy ...
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Страница 36 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Страница 34 - I care not, Fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face...
Страница 60 - But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began...
Страница 70 - They never fail who die In a great cause : the block may soak their gore ; Their heads may sodden in the sun ; their limbs Be strung to city gates and castle walls — But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts Which overpower all others, and conduct The world at last to freedom.
Страница 61 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Страница 49 - Far, far aloof the affrighted ravens sail ; The famish'd eagle screams, and passes by. Dear lost companions of my tuneful art, Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart...
Страница 61 - Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet, For every pelting, petty officer, Would use his heaven for thunder ; Nothing but thunder.
Страница 50 - Pr'ythee, lead me in : There take an inventory of all I have, To the last penny : 'tis the king's : my robe, And my integrity to heaven, is all I dare now call mine own. O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Страница 13 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Страница 13 - And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him, — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won. He heard it, but he heeded not, — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away.