EssaysEdward Moxon, 1841 - 79 páginas |
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... Thoughts on a Barouche - box ; Thoughts on a Hill of Con- siderable Eminence ; Meditations on a Pleas- ing Idea ; Materials for Drinking ; the Knocker , No. I . ; - the Hippopotamus entered at Sta- B - tioners ' Hall ; the Piano - forte ...
... Thoughts on a Barouche - box ; Thoughts on a Hill of Con- siderable Eminence ; Meditations on a Pleas- ing Idea ; Materials for Drinking ; the Knocker , No. I . ; - the Hippopotamus entered at Sta- B - tioners ' Hall ; the Piano - forte ...
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... thought , " says Sir Philip Sydney of his heroine in the Arcadia , " fell down from the trees to do homage to the apples of her breast . " The idea seems to have originated with Theocritus ( Idyl . 27 , v . 50 , edit . Valckenaer ) ...
... thought , " says Sir Philip Sydney of his heroine in the Arcadia , " fell down from the trees to do homage to the apples of her breast . " The idea seems to have originated with Theocritus ( Idyl . 27 , v . 50 , edit . Valckenaer ) ...
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... thought that to cast too many doubts Were oft to erre no lesse Than to be rash : and thus no doubt The gentle queen did guesse , That seeing this or that , at first Or last , had likelyhood , A man so much a manly man Were dastardly ...
... thought that to cast too many doubts Were oft to erre no lesse Than to be rash : and thus no doubt The gentle queen did guesse , That seeing this or that , at first Or last , had likelyhood , A man so much a manly man Were dastardly ...
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... thoughts ( as far as he had any ) , he must have dozed over the opposite side of the question , so as to become almost ... thought upon the subject too ) There whilst behind some bush we wait The scaly people to betray , We'll prove it ...
... thoughts ( as far as he had any ) , he must have dozed over the opposite side of the question , so as to become almost ... thought upon the subject too ) There whilst behind some bush we wait The scaly people to betray , We'll prove it ...
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... thought perhaps on that side of the question , or been accustomed from childhood to blink it . But once thinking , their amiableness and their practice become incompatible ; and if they should wish , on that account , never to have thought ...
... thought perhaps on that side of the question , or been accustomed from childhood to blink it . But once thinking , their amiableness and their practice become incompatible ; and if they should wish , on that account , never to have thought ...
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admiration Anacreon Andrew Marvell appears Arabian Nights Ariosto beauty Ben Jonson better called Chaucer coach colour Dæmon dance death delight Dianora door dream dress earth elegance eyes face fancy fear feel flowers Formica rufa genius gentle gentleman give gout grace green hand happy head heart heaven honour horse human imagination Ippolito Italian Italy kind lady Leatherhead less lived look Lord lovers means melancholy mind Morgante nature never night Orlando ourselves Ovid pain perhaps person Petrarch pleasant pleasure poet poetry poor reader reason respect rich round seems sense Shakspeare side sight sleep sort speak spirit story suppose sweet taste Tatler tears thee Theocritus thing thou thought tion Titian trees Triptolemus turn Turnham Green Twelfth Night Vertumnus voice walk window wish word write young
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Página 27 - The reason is, your spirits are attentive ; For do but note a wild and wanton herd, Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, Fetching mad bounds, bellowing, and neighing loud, Which is the hot condition of their blood; If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound, Or any air of music touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze, By the sweet power of music.
Página 36 - I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome! those caves of ice! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware!
Página 13 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war; Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Página 15 - She clos'd the door, she panted, all akin To spirits of the air, and visions wide: No uttered syllable, or, woe betide! But to her heart, her heart was voluble, Paining with eloquence her balmy side; As though a tongueless nightingale should swell Her throat in vain, and die, heart-stifled, in her dell.
Página 28 - With broad and burning face. Alas! (thought I, and my heart beat loud) How fast she nears and nears! Are those her sails that glance in the Sun, Like restless gossameres?
Página 18 - But his sagacious eye an inmate owns: By one, and one, the bolts full easy slide: — The chains lie silent on the footworn stones; The key turns, and the door upon its hinges groans. XLII And they are gone: ay, ages long ago 370 These lovers fled away into the storm.
Página 75 - She found me roots of relish sweet, And honey wild, and manna dew, And sure in language strange she said 'I love thee true!
Página 36 - To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
Página 13 - Many were the wit-combats betwixt him and Ben Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare...
Página 44 - Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes, Brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose On this afflicted prince. Fall like a cloud In gentle showers: give nothing that is loud Or painful to his slumbers: easy, sweet, And as a purling stream, thou son of Night, Pass by his troubled senses; sing his pain Like hollow murmuring wind, or silver rain: Into this prince, gently, oh gently slide, And kiss him into slumbers, like a bride.