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... WRITINGS , AND EXPLANATORY NOTES . BY JAMES ROBERT BOYD , 66 EDITOR OF THE PARADISE LOST , " " THOMSON'S SEASONS , " ETC. NEW YORK : A. S. BARNES & CO . , 51 JOHN - STREET . CINCINNATI : -H . W. DERBY & CO . 1852 . Entered according to ...
... WRITINGS , AND EXPLANATORY NOTES . BY JAMES ROBERT BOYD , 66 EDITOR OF THE PARADISE LOST , " " THOMSON'S SEASONS , " ETC. NEW YORK : A. S. BARNES & CO . , 51 JOHN - STREET . CINCINNATI : -H . W. DERBY & CO . 1852 . Entered according to ...
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... writings , and notes explanatory of the text , the editor has been influenced in no small degree by a desire to make the Poem far more useful than it has hitherto been without notes . It has by no means the erudite character of the ...
... writings , and notes explanatory of the text , the editor has been influenced in no small degree by a desire to make the Poem far more useful than it has hitherto been without notes . It has by no means the erudite character of the ...
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... writing it , their experi- ence may accord with his : " I chase the moments with a serious song , Song soothes our pain ; and age has pains to soothe . " We have spoken of the importance of the use of this poem in the education of the ...
... writing it , their experi- ence may accord with his : " I chase the moments with a serious song , Song soothes our pain ; and age has pains to soothe . " We have spoken of the importance of the use of this poem in the education of the ...
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... Writings of the Author , " and there- fore it may now be sufficient just to enter our dissent from the ob- jections , and to adduce in the author's vindication a few of the beau- tiful and triumphant lines with which he brings his poem ...
... Writings of the Author , " and there- fore it may now be sufficient just to enter our dissent from the ob- jections , and to adduce in the author's vindication a few of the beau- tiful and triumphant lines with which he brings his poem ...
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... writings , as a preparation for reading them with an intelligent appreciation of the excellencies and defects , or as a means of awak- ening the attention to all those qualities and objects that are intrin- sically most deserving of it ...
... writings , as a preparation for reading them with an intelligent appreciation of the excellencies and defects , or as a means of awak- ening the attention to all those qualities and objects that are intrin- sically most deserving of it ...
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Page 363 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of eternity — the throne Of the Invisible ; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made ; each zone Obeys thee ; thou goest forth, dread fathomless alone.
Page 185 - tis said) Before was never made, But when of old the sons of morning sung, While the Creator great His constellations set, And the well-balanced world on hinges hung. And cast the dark foundations deep, And bid the weltering waves their oozy channel keep.
Page 397 - And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it...
Page 124 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven : And how they might have borne more welcome news.
Page 363 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy...
Page 378 - This was the most unkindest cut of all ; For when the noble Caesar saw him stab, Ingratitude, more strong than traitors...
Page 270 - Pure as the expanse of heaven I thither went With unexperienced thought and laid me down On the green bank to look into the clear Smooth lake that to me seemed another sky. As I bent down to look just opposite A shape within the watery gleam appeared Bending to look on me. I started back It started back but pleased I soon returned Pleased it returned as soon with answering looks Of sympathy and love.
Page 77 - An heir of glory! a frail child of dust! Helpless immortal! insect infinite! A worm! a god! I tremble at myself, . And in myself am lost ! at home a stranger, Thought wanders up and down, surprised, aghast, And wondering at her own: how reason reels!
Page 375 - Prone on the ground, as since, but on his rear, Circular base of rising folds, that tower'd Fold above fold a surging maze, his head Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes ; With burnish'd neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant...
Page 75 - To reason, and on reason build resolve, (That column of true majesty in man) Assist me : I will thank you in the grave ; The grave, your kingdom : There this frame shall fall A victim sacred to your dreary shrine.