Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... tree , She could more infuse in me , Than all Nature's beauties can , In some other wiser man . By her help I also now Make this churlish place allow Some things that may sweeten gladness In the very gall of sadness . The dull loneness ...
... tree , She could more infuse in me , Than all Nature's beauties can , In some other wiser man . By her help I also now Make this churlish place allow Some things that may sweeten gladness In the very gall of sadness . The dull loneness ...
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... tree with both hands in his waistcoat pockets , to be " over- run with the spleen , " or to heat himself needlessly about an abstract proposition . His plays are liable to the same objection . They are never acted , and seldom read ...
... tree with both hands in his waistcoat pockets , to be " over- run with the spleen , " or to heat himself needlessly about an abstract proposition . His plays are liable to the same objection . They are never acted , and seldom read ...
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... trees I view th ' embattled tow'r , Whence all the music . I again perceive The soothing influence of the wafted strains , And settle in soft musings as I tread The walk , still verdant , under oaks and elms , Whose outspread branches ...
... trees I view th ' embattled tow'r , Whence all the music . I again perceive The soothing influence of the wafted strains , And settle in soft musings as I tread The walk , still verdant , under oaks and elms , Whose outspread branches ...
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... trees , and rivulets whose rapid course Defies the check of winter , haunts of deer , And sheep - walks populous with bleating lambs , And lanes , in which the primrose ere her time Peeps through the moss that clothes the hawthorn root ...
... trees , and rivulets whose rapid course Defies the check of winter , haunts of deer , And sheep - walks populous with bleating lambs , And lanes , in which the primrose ere her time Peeps through the moss that clothes the hawthorn root ...
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... tree ; and in watching for the finny prey , imbibe what he beautifully calls " the pa- tience and simplicity of poor honest fishermen . " We accompany them to their inn at night , and partake of their simple , but delicious fare ; while ...
... tree ; and in watching for the finny prey , imbibe what he beautifully calls " the pa- tience and simplicity of poor honest fishermen . " We accompany them to their inn at night , and partake of their simple , but delicious fare ; while ...
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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.