Poetry Explained for the Use of Young PeopleJ. Johnson, 72, St. Paul's Churchyard., 1802 - 115 páginas |
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... darkness . I. " The curfew tolls the knell of parting day , The lowing herd wind slowly , o'er the lea , The ploughman homeward plods his weary way , And leaves the world to darkness and to me . The curfew.When William Duke of Nor mandy ...
... darkness . I. " The curfew tolls the knell of parting day , The lowing herd wind slowly , o'er the lea , The ploughman homeward plods his weary way , And leaves the world to darkness and to me . The curfew.When William Duke of Nor mandy ...
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... Darkness spreads his jealous wings , And the night raven sings ; There under ebon shades and low - brow'd rocks , As ragged as thy locks , In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell . " 146 Fly hence , hateful Melancholy ! thou offspring of C4 ...
... Darkness spreads his jealous wings , And the night raven sings ; There under ebon shades and low - brow'd rocks , As ragged as thy locks , In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell . " 146 Fly hence , hateful Melancholy ! thou offspring of C4 ...
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... darkness thin , And to the stack , or the barn - door , Stoutly struts his dames before . " Whilst the crowing cock seems to dispel the darkness as he struts before his hens from their roost to the barn - door or the corn - stack , to ...
... darkness thin , And to the stack , or the barn - door , Stoutly struts his dames before . " Whilst the crowing cock seems to dispel the darkness as he struts before his hens from their roost to the barn - door or the corn - stack , to ...
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... darkness . ** ,、 འ 7 Popular superstition had formerly a thou- sand foolish notions , that are now almost for- gotten amongst the people , though they still furnish images to poets . The vulgar believed , that there existed fairies ...
... darkness . ** ,、 འ 7 Popular superstition had formerly a thou- sand foolish notions , that are now almost for- gotten amongst the people , though they still furnish images to poets . The vulgar believed , that there existed fairies ...
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... darkness visible , palpable darkness.- Milton was blind ; and whoever attend care- fully to their own sensations will perceive , that when they shut their eyes entirely , or when they go into a room perfectly dark , a feeling of ...
... darkness visible , palpable darkness.- Milton was blind ; and whoever attend care- fully to their own sensations will perceive , that when they shut their eyes entirely , or when they go into a room perfectly dark , a feeling of ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Academus allusion ancient appear beautiful bell Ben Jonson bird blood bold Bridewell Hospital called Cambuscan Canace catachresis chariot cheerful chief justice churchyard clouds cock colours Cypress Danger darkness death drowsy epithets Euridice eyes fairies father favourite Fear figures fire fold formerly ghosts goblins goddess Gray groves Harvard College hath hear Heaven Henry honour JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL king's bench kynge L'Allegro lawn laws lines live melancholy metaphor metonymy Milton mind Mirth moon morning muses night nymph obscure Orpheus passions Pelops Penseroso person Plato pleasures Pluto poem poet poet means poetic poetry prince properly means prose represented robes says seems shade Shakspeare shroud sing sleep smiles solemn sometimes soul sound speak spirit stanza stream Styx supposed sweet sword thee thing and means thou art tide of blood tion trophies unseen verse walks whilst wild wind wood word young readers youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 77 - And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew ; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Página 50 - Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus
Página 71 - And, when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring, To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown, that Sylvan loves, Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude axe, with heaved stroke, Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt.
Página 66 - Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made hell grant what love did seek. Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold...
Página 46 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of link-ed sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running ; Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of Harmony : That Orpheus...
Página 39 - Sometimes, with secure delight, The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid Dancing in the chequered shade...
Página 34 - Through the high wood echoing shrill : Sometime walking not unseen By hedgerow elms, on hillocks green, Right against the eastern gate, Where the great Sun begins his state, Robed in flames, and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight...
Página 30 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Página 75 - With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced quire below, In service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes.
Página 55 - There, held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad leaden downward cast Thou fix them on the earth as fast: And join with thee calm Peace, and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet, And hears the Muses in a ring Aye round about Jove's altar sing...