Lectures on the English PoetsJ. Wiley, 1849 - 255 páginas |
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... sweet leaves to the air , and dedi- cates its beauty to the sun , " - there is poetry , in its birth . If history is a grave study , poetry may be said to be a graver : its materials lie deeper , and are spread wider . History treats ...
... sweet leaves to the air , and dedi- cates its beauty to the sun , " - there is poetry , in its birth . If history is a grave study , poetry may be said to be a graver : its materials lie deeper , and are spread wider . History treats ...
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... sweet an aire Of the eglentere , that certainely There is no herte I deme in such dispaire , Ne with thoughts froward and contraire , So ouerlaid , but it should soone haue bote , If it had ones felt this savour sote . And as I stood ...
... sweet an aire Of the eglentere , that certainely There is no herte I deme in such dispaire , Ne with thoughts froward and contraire , So ouerlaid , but it should soone haue bote , If it had ones felt this savour sote . And as I stood ...
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... sweet . And to the herber side was joyning This faire tree , of which I haue you told , And at the last the brid began to sing , Whan he had eaten what he eat wold , So passing sweetly , that by manifold It was more pleasaunt than I ...
... sweet . And to the herber side was joyning This faire tree , of which I haue you told , And at the last the brid began to sing , Whan he had eaten what he eat wold , So passing sweetly , that by manifold It was more pleasaunt than I ...
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... sweet accorde was in so good musike , That the uoice to angels was most like . " There is here no affected rapture , no flowery sentiment : the whole is an ebullition of natural delight " welling out of the heart , " like water from a ...
... sweet accorde was in so good musike , That the uoice to angels was most like . " There is here no affected rapture , no flowery sentiment : the whole is an ebullition of natural delight " welling out of the heart , " like water from a ...
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... sweet : The angelical soft trembling voices made To th ' instruments divine respondence meet . The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmur of the water's fall ; The water's fall with difference discreet , Now soft ...
... sweet : The angelical soft trembling voices made To th ' instruments divine respondence meet . The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmur of the water's fall ; The water's fall with difference discreet , Now soft ...
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Página 120 - The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
Página 183 - But Nature, in due course of time, once more Shall here put on her beauty and her bloom. "She leaves these objects to a slow decay, That what we are, and have been, may be known ; But at the coming of the milder day These monuments shall all be overgrown.
Página 136 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Página 93 - Villiers lies — alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay at council, in a ring Of mimic statesmen and their merry King.
Página 185 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Página 140 - midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams. Or if chill blustering winds, or driving rain, Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut That from the mountain's side Views wilds and swelling floods, And hamlets brown and dim-discover'd spires, And hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Página 76 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Página 194 - Under the opening eyelids of the Morn, We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn. Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night, Oft till the star that rose at evening, bright, Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel.
Página 194 - But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Página 200 - For softness she, and sweet attractive grace ; He for God only, she for God in him...