The Complete Works of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham, Late of St. John's College, Cambridge: With an Account of His LifeE. Kearny, 1899 - 420 páginas |
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... believe , the same person who wrote a life of Burke . If he received any other assistance , it was very trifling ; yet , in the course of ten months , he enabled himself to read Horace with tolerable facility , and had made some ...
... believe , the same person who wrote a life of Burke . If he received any other assistance , it was very trifling ; yet , in the course of ten months , he enabled himself to read Horace with tolerable facility , and had made some ...
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... believe it was never sent . He was then recommended to apply to the dutchess of Devonshire . Poor Henry felt a fit repugnance at court- ing patronage in this way , but he felt that it was of con- sequence in his little world , and ...
... believe it was never sent . He was then recommended to apply to the dutchess of Devonshire . Poor Henry felt a fit repugnance at court- ing patronage in this way , but he felt that it was of con- sequence in his little world , and ...
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... believe , frequently known to bestow much labor on their amusements : and these Poems were , most of them , written merely to beguile a leisure hour , or to fill up the languid intervals of studies of a severer nature . Πας το οικείος ...
... believe , frequently known to bestow much labor on their amusements : and these Poems were , most of them , written merely to beguile a leisure hour , or to fill up the languid intervals of studies of a severer nature . Πας το οικείος ...
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... thou to Sylvan themes canst soar ; Thou know'st to charm the woodland train : The rustic swains believe thy power Can hush the wild winds when they roar , And still the billowy main . V. These honors , Lyre , we yet may keep.
... thou to Sylvan themes canst soar ; Thou know'st to charm the woodland train : The rustic swains believe thy power Can hush the wild winds when they roar , And still the billowy main . V. These honors , Lyre , we yet may keep.
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... believe , a good deal ; nothing could be more acceptable to me , or more improving to you , than making a part of your letters to consist of your senti- ments , and opinion of the books you peruse ; you have no idea how beneficial this ...
... believe , a good deal ; nothing could be more acceptable to me , or more improving to you , than making a part of your letters to consist of your senti- ments , and opinion of the books you peruse ; you have no idea how beneficial this ...
Términos y frases comunes
art thou bliss breast BROTHER NEVILLE calm Capel Lofft Catton charms Christian Clifton Grove dark DEAR NEVILLE death delight divine dost eternal fear feel gale genius give gloom Gondoline grace grave Greek H. K. WHITE hand happy harp hear heard heart Heaven Henry HENRY KIRKE WHITE holy Honington honors hope hour JOHN CHARLESWORTH John's Josiah Conder leave letter light live lonely lyre melancholy mind moon morning mortal mother mournful muse nature never night Nottingham o'er pain pale peace pensive pleasure poems poet prayer Pythagoras Quatorzain religion round scene sigh silent sing sleep smile solemn song sonnet soon sorrow soul sound spirit sublime sweet tear tell thee thine things thou thought throne tion vale verses virtues wandering wave weep wild winds Winteringham wish write written young youth
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Página 120 - Hark ! hark ! to God the chorus breaks, From every host, from every gem ; But one alone the Saviour speaks, It is the star of Bethlehem.
Página 120 - It was my guide, my light, my all, It bade my dark forebodings cease; And through the storm and danger's thrall, It led me to the port of peace. Now safely moored, my perils o'er, I'll sing, first in night's diadem, For ever and for evermore, The Star, the Star of Bethlehem.
Página 190 - And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart. Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which...
Página 414 - ... there was not a grain of it left, on condition you were to be miserable for ever after ? Or, supposing that you might be happy for ever after, on condition you would be miserable till the whole mass of sand were thus annihilated at the rate of one sand in a thousand years: which of these two cases would you make your choice...
Página 76 - twill well contain The ideal flights of Madam Brain. No dungeon's walls, no cell confined, Can cramp the energies of mind ! I've friends, and 'twill contain them all ; And should it e'er become so cold That these it will no longer hold, No more may Heaven her blessings give, I shall not then be fit to live. TO AN EARLY PRIMROSE.
Página 24 - O'er Beauty's fall; Her praise resounds no more when mantled in her pall. The most beloved on earth Not long survives to-day; So music past is obsolete, And yet 'twas sweet, 'twas passing sweet, But now 'tis gone away. Thus does the shade In memory fade, When in forsaken tomb the form beloved is laid.
Página 11 - Come, thou shalt form my nosegay now, And I will bind thee round my brow ; And as I twine the mournful wreath, I'll weave a melancholy song: And sweet the strain shall be and long, The melody of death.
Página 23 - Still, rigid Nurse, thou art forgiven, For thou severe wert sent from heaven To wean me from the world ; To turn my eye From vanity, And point to scenes of bliss that never, never die.
Página 29 - ... to Cambridge, he was immediately as much distinguished for his classical knowledge as his genius : but the seeds of death were in him, and the place to which he had so long looked on with hope, served unhappily as a hothouse to ripen them...
Página 170 - Mortals ! be gladsome while ye have the power, And laugh and seize the glittering lapse of joy ; In time the bell will toll That warns ye to your graves.