Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Volumen1Harper & Brothers, 1847 |
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... present , and , with mighty wings outspread , Dove - like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss , And mad'st it pregnant ; what in me is dark Illumine , what is low raise and support ; That to the height of this great argument I may assert ...
... present , and , with mighty wings outspread , Dove - like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss , And mad'st it pregnant ; what in me is dark Illumine , what is low raise and support ; That to the height of this great argument I may assert ...
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... present day . Patriots and patrons of the people are now plentiful enough , but in Crabbe's day the work had to be begun ; the swinish multitude had yet to be visited in their sties ; and the Circe of the modern sorceries of degradation ...
... present day . Patriots and patrons of the people are now plentiful enough , but in Crabbe's day the work had to be begun ; the swinish multitude had yet to be visited in their sties ; and the Circe of the modern sorceries of degradation ...
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... present for the purpose , from Dudley North , brother to the candidate for Aldborough , he took his pas- sage in a sloop for town . In thinking of Crabbe , we generally picture him to our- selves as the well - to - do clergyman ...
... present for the purpose , from Dudley North , brother to the candidate for Aldborough , he took his pas- sage in a sloop for town . In thinking of Crabbe , we generally picture him to our- selves as the well - to - do clergyman ...
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... present , his smile of indescribable be- nevolence spoke exultation in the foretaste of our raptures . " But I think even earlier than these are my first recol- lections of my mother . I think the very earliest is of her combing my hair ...
... present , his smile of indescribable be- nevolence spoke exultation in the foretaste of our raptures . " But I think even earlier than these are my first recol- lections of my mother . I think the very earliest is of her combing my hair ...
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... present forming no exception- that " Authorship is an agreeable addition to a tolerable fixed income , but as a total dependence is a wretched reed . " Scott , the most successful author of any age , though pos- sessed of a good income ...
... present forming no exception- that " Authorship is an agreeable addition to a tolerable fixed income , but as a total dependence is a wretched reed . " Scott , the most successful author of any age , though pos- sessed of a good income ...
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Página 520 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Página 5 - That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Página 519 - Lady Clara Vere de Vere, Some meeker pupil you must find, For were you queen of all that is, I could not stoop to such a mind. You sought to prove how I could love, And my disdain is my reply. The lion on your old stone gates Is not more cold to you than I.
Página 5 - Fast by the oracle of God; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly Thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples th...
Página 4 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Página 521 - Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.
Página 524 - Fool, again the dream, the fancy ! but I know my words are wild, But I count the gray barbarian lower than the Christian child. I, to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains, Like a beast with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower pains...
Página 337 - But from that hour forgot the smart, And Peace bound up my broken heart. In prison I saw Him next, condemned To meet a traitor's doom at morn ; The tide of lying tongues I...
Página 512 - A still salt pool, lock'd in with bars of sand, Left on the shore ; that hears all night The plunging seas draw backward from the land Their moon-led waters white.
Página 524 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward, let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro...