Poetry Explained for the Use of Young PeopleJ. Johnson, 72, St. Paul's Churchyard., 1802 - 115 páginas |
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... walks , or ways ; as , the road to preferment , the path of honour , the walks of the righteous , and the ways of man , are all familiar ex- pressions ; and sometimes life is also repre- sented as a voyage . An ocean of misery , a sea ...
... walks , or ways ; as , the road to preferment , the path of honour , the walks of the righteous , and the ways of man , are all familiar ex- pressions ; and sometimes life is also repre- sented as a voyage . An ocean of misery , a sea ...
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... walk amongst workmen in the fields , by hedge - rows planted with elms , and over green hillocks , towards the east where the glorious sun begins his daily course , robed in amber coloured flame , and attended by clouds adorned with ...
... walk amongst workmen in the fields , by hedge - rows planted with elms , and over green hillocks , towards the east where the glorious sun begins his daily course , robed in amber coloured flame , and attended by clouds adorned with ...
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... walk unseen On the dry smooth shaven green . " Walking in the view of others is suited to L'Allegro , walking unseen to Il Penseroso . Right against the eastern gate . - Opposite to the rising sun . Gray , in the country church- yard ...
... walk unseen On the dry smooth shaven green . " Walking in the view of others is suited to L'Allegro , walking unseen to Il Penseroso . Right against the eastern gate . - Opposite to the rising sun . Gray , in the country church- yard ...
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... walks abroad in the morning.la Russet lawnsBrown lawns , dried up by the sun . Labouring clouds . Low clouds driven slowly by the winds , when they meet with high mountains , seem to labour in rolling over * them , and may seem to rest ...
... walks abroad in the morning.la Russet lawnsBrown lawns , dried up by the sun . Labouring clouds . Low clouds driven slowly by the winds , when they meet with high mountains , seem to labour in rolling over * them , and may seem to rest ...
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... walk to the small villages on the neghbouring hills , on a holiday , when the bells ring merrily ; when , in the evening , under the moving shadows of the trees , the village lads and maidens dance to the cheerful fiddle . The rebeck ...
... walk to the small villages on the neghbouring hills , on a holiday , when the bells ring merrily ; when , in the evening , under the moving shadows of the trees , the village lads and maidens dance to the cheerful fiddle . The rebeck ...
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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...