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... sounds that echo still . " He owes his pre - eminence to several facts . First of all , he was gifted by nature with extraordinary poetic genius , which embodied itself in a number of imperishable works . He is justly called by Dryden ...
... sounds that echo still . " He owes his pre - eminence to several facts . First of all , he was gifted by nature with extraordinary poetic genius , which embodied itself in a number of imperishable works . He is justly called by Dryden ...
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... bitter wound ; The warlike beech ; the ash for nothing ill ; The fruitfull olive ; and the platane round ; The carver holme ; the maple seeldom inward sound . X. Led with delight , they thus beguile the way THE FAERY QUEENE . 99.
... bitter wound ; The warlike beech ; the ash for nothing ill ; The fruitfull olive ; and the platane round ; The carver holme ; the maple seeldom inward sound . X. Led with delight , they thus beguile the way THE FAERY QUEENE . 99.
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... lyes Wrapt in eternall silence farre from enimyes . XLII . The messenger approching to him spake ; But his waste wordes retournd to him in vaine : So sound he slept , that nought mought him awake 108 ENGLISH LITERATURE .
... lyes Wrapt in eternall silence farre from enimyes . XLII . The messenger approching to him spake ; But his waste wordes retournd to him in vaine : So sound he slept , that nought mought him awake 108 ENGLISH LITERATURE .
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Including a Number of Classic Works, with Notes Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter. So sound he slept , that nought mought him awake . Then rudely he him thrust , and pusht with paine Whereat he gan to stretch : but he againe Shooke him ...
Including a Number of Classic Works, with Notes Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter. So sound he slept , that nought mought him awake . Then rudely he him thrust , and pusht with paine Whereat he gan to stretch : but he againe Shooke him ...
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... sound His mery oaten pipe ; but shund th ' unlucky ground . XXIX . But this good knight , soone as he them can spie , For the coole shade him thither hastly got : For golden Phoebus , now ymounted hie , From fiery wheeles of his faire ...
... sound His mery oaten pipe ; but shund th ' unlucky ground . XXIX . But this good knight , soone as he them can spie , For the coole shade him thither hastly got : For golden Phoebus , now ymounted hie , From fiery wheeles of his faire ...
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Page 245 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines...
Page 466 - Far, far away thy children leave the land. 50 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, "Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made : But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.
Page 568 - Is lightened: — that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on, — Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul: While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
Page 297 - Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskined stage. But, O sad virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower! Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did seek...
Page 574 - Shaped by himself with newly -learned art ; A wedding or a festival, A mourning or a funeral ; And this hath now his heart, And unto this he frames his song : Then will he fit his tongue To dialogues of business, love, or strife : But it will not be long Ere this be thrown aside. And with new joy and pride The little Actor cons another part ; Filling from time to time his
Page 569 - All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains; and of all that we behold From this green earth; of all the mighty world Of eye, and ear, — both what they half create, And what perceive...
Page 565 - That on a wild secluded scene impress Thoughts of more deep seclusion ; and connect The landscape with the quiet of the sky.
Page 559 - These beauteous Forms., Through a long absence, have not been to me As is a landscape to a blind man's eye : But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them, In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart ; And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration...
Page 296 - With a sad leaden downward cast Thou fix them on the earth as fast. And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet, And hears the Muses in a ring Aye round about Jove's altar sing ; And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his pleasure ; 50 But, first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon...
Page 359 - The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me : But shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.