Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British and American Authors, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volumes 5-6Robert Chambers American Book Exchange, 1880 |
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... earth was made so various , that the mind Of desultory man , studious of change And pleased with novelty , might be indulged . Prospects , however lovely , may be seen Till half their beauties fade ; the weary sight , Too well ...
... earth was made so various , that the mind Of desultory man , studious of change And pleased with novelty , might be indulged . Prospects , however lovely , may be seen Till half their beauties fade ; the weary sight , Too well ...
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... earth , regales the sense With luxury of unexpected sweets . From the beginning to the end of The Task ' we never lose sight His love of country rambles , when a boy , of the author . O'er hills , through valleys , and by river's brink ...
... earth , regales the sense With luxury of unexpected sweets . From the beginning to the end of The Task ' we never lose sight His love of country rambles , when a boy , of the author . O'er hills , through valleys , and by river's brink ...
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... earth , and stones . Some men employ their health - an ugly trick- In making known how oft they have been sick , And give us in recitals of disease A doctor's trouble but without the fees ; Relate how many weeks they kept their bed ...
... earth , and stones . Some men employ their health - an ugly trick- In making known how oft they have been sick , And give us in recitals of disease A doctor's trouble but without the fees ; Relate how many weeks they kept their bed ...
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... earth , and ocean plundered of their sweets , Nectareous essences , Olympian dews , Sermons , and city feasts , and favourite airs , Ethereal journeys , submarine exploits , And Katterfelto , * with his hair on end At his own wonders ...
... earth , and ocean plundered of their sweets , Nectareous essences , Olympian dews , Sermons , and city feasts , and favourite airs , Ethereal journeys , submarine exploits , And Katterfelto , * with his hair on end At his own wonders ...
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... earth ! thy clime is rude , Replete with vapours , and disposes much All hearts to sadness , and none more than mine Thine unadulterate manners are less soft And plausible than social life requires , And thou hast need of discipline and ...
... earth ! thy clime is rude , Replete with vapours , and disposes much All hearts to sadness , and none more than mine Thine unadulterate manners are less soft And plausible than social life requires , And thou hast need of discipline and ...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 5-6 Robert Chambers Visualização integral - 1880 |
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Página 140 - tis her privilege. Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy; for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues. Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.
Página 324 - Nay, not so," Replied the angel. Abou spoke more low, But cheerily still, and said, "I pray thee, then, Write me as one that loves his fellow-men.
Página 158 - The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.
Página 290 - Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory, like a saint: She seemed a splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven: Porphyro grew faint: She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint.
Página 137 - Twelve steps or more from my mother's door, And they are side by side.
Página 247 - O woman ! in our hours of ease, uncertain, coy, and hard to please, and variable as the shade by the light, quivering aspen made ; when pain and anguish wring the brow, a ministering angel thou...
Página 26 - For saddle-tree scarce reached had he, His journey to begin, When, turning round his head, he saw Three customers come in. So down he came; for loss of time, Although it grieved him sore, Yet loss of pence, full well he knew, Would trouble him much more. Twas long before the customers Were suited to their mind, When Betty screaming came down stairs, 'The wine is left behind!' 'Good lack,' quoth he — 'yet bring it me, My leathern belt likewise, In which I bear my trusty sword, When I do exercise.
Página 138 - To them I may have owed another gift, Of aspect more sublime : that blessed mood In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world. Is lightened; that serene and blessed mood.
Página 297 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning.
Página 291 - My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.