Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British Authors from the Earliest to the Present Times, Том 2Chambers, 1844 |
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... hear the tumult of the distant throng , As that of seas remote , or dying storms ; And meditate on scenes more silent still ; Pursue my theme , and fight the fear of death . Here like a shepherd , gazing from his hut , Touching his reed ...
... hear the tumult of the distant throng , As that of seas remote , or dying storms ; And meditate on scenes more silent still ; Pursue my theme , and fight the fear of death . Here like a shepherd , gazing from his hut , Touching his reed ...
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... hear their glory told , And aid the wretched impotence of gold . But some , great souls ! and touched with warmth divine , Give gold a price , and teach its beams to shine ; All hoarded treasures they repute a load , Nor think their ...
... hear their glory told , And aid the wretched impotence of gold . But some , great souls ! and touched with warmth divine , Give gold a price , and teach its beams to shine ; All hoarded treasures they repute a load , Nor think their ...
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... hear : But all is calm , as would delight the heart Of Sybarite of old , all nature , and all art . Here nought but candour reigns , indulgent ease , Good - natured lounging , sauntering up and down : They who are pleased themselves ...
... hear : But all is calm , as would delight the heart Of Sybarite of old , all nature , and all art . Here nought but candour reigns , indulgent ease , Good - natured lounging , sauntering up and down : They who are pleased themselves ...
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... hears the incessant call , They mount , they shine , evaporate , and fall . On every stage , the foes of peace attend ... hear the last appeal , Sign her foes ' doom , or guard her favourites ' zeal ? Through freedom's sons no more ...
... hears the incessant call , They mount , they shine , evaporate , and fall . On every stage , the foes of peace attend ... hear the last appeal , Sign her foes ' doom , or guard her favourites ' zeal ? Through freedom's sons no more ...
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... hear ; The watchful guests still hint the last offence , The daughter's petulance , the son's expense , Improve his heady rage with treacherous skill , And mould his passions till they make his will . Unnumbered maladies his joints ...
... hear ; The watchful guests still hint the last offence , The daughter's petulance , the son's expense , Improve his heady rage with treacherous skill , And mould his passions till they make his will . Unnumbered maladies his joints ...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Том 2 Robert Chambers Повний перегляд - 1856 |
Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Том 2 Robert Chambers Повний перегляд - 1867 |
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Сторінка 376 - drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corpse 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 dinily burning.
Сторінка 54 - d to the prattle of the purling rille, Were heard the lowing herds along the vale, And flocks loud bleating from the distant hills, And vacant shepherds piping in the dale : And now and then sweet Philomel would wail, Or stock-doves 'plain amid the forest deep, That drowsy rustled to the sighing
Сторінка 54 - to stray ; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered
Сторінка 346 - . The volume closed, the customary rites Of the last meal commence. A Roman meal ; Such as the mistress of the world once found Delicious, when her patriots of high note, And
Сторінка 324 - words are these:—'I don't know what I may seem to the world ; but as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of Truth lay all
Сторінка 60 - of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their wo; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was hi
Сторінка 372 - him soft names in many a mused rhyme, Darkling I listen ; and for many a time To take into the air my quiet breath ; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an
Сторінка 377 - thyself; and take a couple of bottles with my service, and tell him he is heartily welcome to them, and to a dozen more if they will do him good. My uncle