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... perhaps not refuse it their good - will for the sake of old favorites . The Editor has often wished for such a book himself ; and as nobody will make it for him . he has made it for others . It was suggested by the approbation which the ...
... perhaps not refuse it their good - will for the sake of old favorites . The Editor has often wished for such a book himself ; and as nobody will make it for him . he has made it for others . It was suggested by the approbation which the ...
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... perhaps might always be so , if the subtlety of our perceptions were a match for the causes of them . Con sider this image of Ben Jonson's - of a lily being a flower of light . Light , undecomposed , is white ; and as the lily is white ...
... perhaps might always be so , if the subtlety of our perceptions were a match for the causes of them . Con sider this image of Ben Jonson's - of a lily being a flower of light . Light , undecomposed , is white ; and as the lily is white ...
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... Perhaps they may be enume rated as follows : -First , that which presents to the mind any object or circumstance in every - day life ; as when we imagine . a man holding a sword , or looking out of a window ; -Second , that which ...
... Perhaps they may be enume rated as follows : -First , that which presents to the mind any object or circumstance in every - day life ; as when we imagine . a man holding a sword , or looking out of a window ; -Second , that which ...
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... perhaps , in point of invention , to Shakspeare's Ariel and Caliban ; though poetry may grudge to prose the discovery of a Winged Woman , especially such as she has been described by her inventor in the story of Peter Wilkins ; and in ...
... perhaps , in point of invention , to Shakspeare's Ariel and Caliban ; though poetry may grudge to prose the discovery of a Winged Woman , especially such as she has been described by her inventor in the story of Peter Wilkins ; and in ...
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... perhaps Bring help across the sea ; so from the head Of great Achilles went up an effulgence . Upon the trench he stood , without the wall , But mix'd n't with the Greeks , for he rever'd His mother's word ; and so , thus standing there ...
... perhaps Bring help across the sea ; so from the head Of great Achilles went up an effulgence . Upon the trench he stood , without the wall , But mix'd n't with the Greeks , for he rever'd His mother's word ; and so , thus standing there ...
Términos y frases comunes
appear beauty better body bright bring character comes delight devil doth dream earth Enter eyes face fair fairy fancy fear feeling fire flowers give grace hand happy hath head hear heard heart heaven hence hope horse humor idea imagination kind king lady leave less light live look lord master mean Milton mind moon nature never night once pain passage passion perhaps play poem poet poetical poetry poor pray present reader reason rest rich round seems seen sense Shakspeare side sing sleep sometimes song soul sound speak Spenser spirit sweet tell thee things thou thought true truth turn unto verse whole wind wood writing young
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Página 219 - What thou art we know not: what is most like thee? From rainbow clouds there flow not drops so bright to see, as from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a poet hidden in the light of thought, singing hymns unbidden till the world is wrought to sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not...
Página 189 - And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew ; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Página 252 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret...
Página 252 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
Página 177 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Página 233 - ST. AGNES' Eve — Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limp'd trembling through the frozen grass, And silent was the flock in woolly fold: Numb were the Beadsman's fingers, while he told His rosary, and while his frosted breath, Like pious incense from a censer old, Seem'd taking flight for heaven, without a death, Past the sweet Virgin's picture, while his prayer he saith.
Página 194 - Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark, That sunk so low that sacred head of thine. Next Camus, reverend sire, went footing slow, His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge Inwrought with figures dim, and on the edge Like to that sanguine flower inscribed with woe.
Página 88 - Was parmaceti for an inward bruise ; And that it was great pity, so it was, This villanous saltpetre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and but for these vile guns He would himself have been a soldier.
Página 250 - Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair ; Forest on forest hung about his head Like cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.
Página 186 - Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus