Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... death and slaughter painted on the wall , is this one : " The statue of Mars upon a carte stood Armed , and looked grim as he were wood . A wolf ther stood beforne him at his fete With eyen red , and of a man he ete . ” The story of ...
... death and slaughter painted on the wall , is this one : " The statue of Mars upon a carte stood Armed , and looked grim as he were wood . A wolf ther stood beforne him at his fete With eyen red , and of a man he ete . ” The story of ...
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... death . Nothing can touch it in its ethereal purity : tender as the yielding flower , it is fixed as the marble fir- The only remonstrance she makes , the only complaint she utters against all the ill - treat- ment she receives , is ...
... death . Nothing can touch it in its ethereal purity : tender as the yielding flower , it is fixed as the marble fir- The only remonstrance she makes , the only complaint she utters against all the ill - treat- ment she receives , is ...
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... Death to kill him , and who meeting with him , are entangled in their fate by his words , without knowing him . In the printed catalogue to Mr. West's ( in some respects very admirable ) picture of Death on the Pale Horse , it is ...
... Death to kill him , and who meeting with him , are entangled in their fate by his words , without knowing him . In the printed catalogue to Mr. West's ( in some respects very admirable ) picture of Death on the Pale Horse , it is ...
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... Death are powers and effects of an infinitely wide and general description , which no individual or physical form can possibly repre- sent , but by a courtesy of speech , or by a distant analogy . The moral impression of Death is es ...
... Death are powers and effects of an infinitely wide and general description , which no individual or physical form can possibly repre- sent , but by a courtesy of speech , or by a distant analogy . The moral impression of Death is es ...
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... Death is a mighty abstraction , like Night , or Space , or Time . He is an ugly customer , who will not be invited to supper , or to sit for his picture . He is with us and about us , but we do not see him . He stalks on before us , and ...
... Death is a mighty abstraction , like Night , or Space , or Time . He is an ugly customer , who will not be invited to supper , or to sit for his picture . He is with us and about us , but we do not see him . He stalks on before us , and ...
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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.