Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... o'er , But lives in Settle's numbers one day more ! " -when Collins makes Danger , " with limbs of giant mould , " " Throw him on the steep Of some loose hanging rock asleep : " when Lear calls out in extreme anguish , Ingratitude ...
... o'er , But lives in Settle's numbers one day more ! " -when Collins makes Danger , " with limbs of giant mould , " " Throw him on the steep Of some loose hanging rock asleep : " when Lear calls out in extreme anguish , Ingratitude ...
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... ' they are made and moulded of things past , And give to Dust , that is a little gilt , More laud than gold o'er - dusted . " Troilus and Cressida . the story of Malbecco , who is haunted by jealousy 82 ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER .
... ' they are made and moulded of things past , And give to Dust , that is a little gilt , More laud than gold o'er - dusted . " Troilus and Cressida . the story of Malbecco , who is haunted by jealousy 82 ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER .
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... o'er his brow , He falls to such perusal of my face , As he would draw it : long staid he so ; At last , a little shaking of my arm , And thrice his head thus waving up and down , He rais'd a sigh so piteous and profound , As it did ...
... o'er his brow , He falls to such perusal of my face , As he would draw it : long staid he so ; At last , a little shaking of my arm , And thrice his head thus waving up and down , He rais'd a sigh so piteous and profound , As it did ...
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... o'er a brook , That shows its hoary leaves in the glassy stream " 66 Now this is an instance of the same unconscious power of mind which is as true to nature as itself . The leaves of the willow are , in fact , white under- neath , and ...
... o'er a brook , That shows its hoary leaves in the glassy stream " 66 Now this is an instance of the same unconscious power of mind which is as true to nature as itself . The leaves of the willow are , in fact , white under- neath , and ...
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... and in the Ausonian land Men called him Muleib . and how he fell From Heaven , they fabled , thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the chrystal battlements ; from morn To noon he fell , from noon to dewy eve ON SHAKSPEARE AND MILTON . 121.
... and in the Ausonian land Men called him Muleib . and how he fell From Heaven , they fabled , thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the chrystal battlements ; from morn To noon he fell , from noon to dewy eve ON SHAKSPEARE AND MILTON . 121.
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Página 279 - The effect of reading this old ballad is as if all our hopes and fears hung upon the last fibre of the heart, and we felt that giving way. What silence, what loneliness, what leisure for grief and despair '. ' My father pressed me sair, my mother didna speak. But she looked in my face till my heart was like to break.