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... the honeyed spring , And float amid the liquid noon ; Some lightly o'er the current skim , Some show their gaily gilded trim , Quick glancing to the sun . To contemplation's sober eye , Such is the race of ON THE LETTER 7 . 27.
... the honeyed spring , And float amid the liquid noon ; Some lightly o'er the current skim , Some show their gaily gilded trim , Quick glancing to the sun . To contemplation's sober eye , Such is the race of ON THE LETTER 7 . 27.
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J C. Graham. To contemplation's sober eye , Such is the race of man ; And they that creep , and they that fly Shall end where they began . Alike the busy and the gay , But flutter through life's little day , In fortune's varying colours ...
J C. Graham. To contemplation's sober eye , Such is the race of man ; And they that creep , and they that fly Shall end where they began . Alike the busy and the gay , But flutter through life's little day , In fortune's varying colours ...
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... ! What tears of burning rage shall thrill When mourns thy tribe thy battles done , Thy fall before the race was won , Thy sword ungirt ere set of sun ! There breathes not clans - man of thy line But 56 THE ART OF READING .
... ! What tears of burning rage shall thrill When mourns thy tribe thy battles done , Thy fall before the race was won , Thy sword ungirt ere set of sun ! There breathes not clans - man of thy line But 56 THE ART OF READING .
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J C. Graham. EXERCISE 25 . Slow sinks , more lovely ere his race be run , Along Morea's hills , the setting sun ; Not as in Northern climes , obscurely bright , But one unclouded blaze of living light ! O'er the hushed deep the yellow ...
J C. Graham. EXERCISE 25 . Slow sinks , more lovely ere his race be run , Along Morea's hills , the setting sun ; Not as in Northern climes , obscurely bright , But one unclouded blaze of living light ! O'er the hushed deep the yellow ...
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... marble piles : and feels the rapture of the Roman emperor when he approached " where Venice sat in state , throned on her hundred isles . " But in the mean and pusillanimous race by which they are now inhabited , 68 THE ART OF READING .
... marble piles : and feels the rapture of the Roman emperor when he approached " where Venice sat in state , throned on her hundred isles . " But in the mean and pusillanimous race by which they are now inhabited , 68 THE ART OF READING .
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Página 56 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast, Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge. And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deaf ning clamours in the slippery clouds...
Página 36 - The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me : But shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Página 35 - SWEET AUBURN! loveliest village of the plain; Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed : Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please...
Página 31 - Ah! little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround — They who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste — Ah! little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain...
Página 27 - Yet hark, how through the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon: Some lightly o'er the current skim, Some show their gaily-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the sun.
Página 89 - Wales, conspicuous by his fine person and noble bearing. The grey old walls were hung with scarlet. The long galleries were crowded by an audience such as has rarely excited the fears or the emulation of an orator. There were gathered together, from all parts of a great, free, enlightened, and prosperous empire, grace and female loveliness, wit and learning, the representatives of every science and of every art.
Página 60 - But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul ; freeze thy young blood ; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres ; Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porcupine...
Página 88 - Strafford had for a moment awed and melted a victorious party inflamed with just resentment, the hall where Charles had confronted the High Court of Justice with the placid courage which has half redeemed his fame. Neither military nor civil pomp was wanting.
Página 25 - Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ; The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit me once more; He, the young and strong, who cherished Noble longings for the strife, By the road-side fell and perished, Weary with the march of life! They, the holy ones and weakly...
Página 86 - There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down, from my giddy height, on the monsters of the deep at their uncouth gambols. Shoals of porpoises tumbling about the bow of the ship ; the grampus slowly heaving his huge form above the surface ; or the ravenous shark, darting, like a spectre, through the blue waters.