Selected Lyrics from Dryden, Collins, Gray, Cowper, and BurnsCharles Swain Thomas Houghton Mifflin, 1913 - 89 стор. |
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... poet's work into bolder relief and finer outline . The notes in the two volumes have been prepared with the study and the reading distinction in mind . Difficult . allusions and phrases have been explained in each , but there has been ...
... poet's work into bolder relief and finer outline . The notes in the two volumes have been prepared with the study and the reading distinction in mind . Difficult . allusions and phrases have been explained in each , but there has been ...
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... poetic lament for Cromwell , he wrote a famous ode to Charles II when the monarchy was restored , and he eagerly sought the company of the Royalists at Court . This loy- alty was repaid by the laureateship , which he held from 1670 to ...
... poetic lament for Cromwell , he wrote a famous ode to Charles II when the monarchy was restored , and he eagerly sought the company of the Royalists at Court . This loy- alty was repaid by the laureateship , which he held from 1670 to ...
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... Poet - laureate . But he re- sumed his work as a dramatist and retained his undis- puted leadership among the literary men of the time un- til his death in 1700. He was honored by burial in Westminster Abbey in a grave by the side of ...
... Poet - laureate . But he re- sumed his work as a dramatist and retained his undis- puted leadership among the literary men of the time un- til his death in 1700. He was honored by burial in Westminster Abbey in a grave by the side of ...
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... poet was a lad of eight . He wrote during his school days at Winchester and during his university years at Oxford . While still an undergraduate , only seventeen years old , he published his Persian Eclogues and his Epistle to Sir ...
... poet was a lad of eight . He wrote during his school days at Winchester and during his university years at Oxford . While still an undergraduate , only seventeen years old , he published his Persian Eclogues and his Epistle to Sir ...
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... poet was keenly disappointed when his volume of odes failed to sell . In a moment of cynicism he bought the unsold portion of the edition and ruthlessly destroyed the sheets . He at intervals after this resumed his poetic labors , but ...
... poet was keenly disappointed when his volume of odes failed to sell . In a moment of cynicism he bought the unsold portion of the edition and ruthlessly destroyed the sheets . He at intervals after this resumed his poetic labors , but ...
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Сторінка 64 - As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I, And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a' the seas gang dry. Till a" the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi
Сторінка 37 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favorite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Сторінка 64 - O' my sweet Highland Mary. How sweetly bloom'd the gay green birk, How rich the hawthorn's blossom, As underneath their fragrant shade I clasp'd her to my bosom ! The golden hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my dearie ; For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary. Wi...
Сторінка 37 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Сторінка 13 - WHEN Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft, to hear her shell, Throng'd around her magic cell...
Сторінка 24 - Nor e'en thy virtues, tyrant, shall avail To save thy secret soul from nightly fears, From Cambria's curse, from Cambria's tears...
Сторінка 48 - Twelve years have elapsed since I last took a view Of my favourite field, and the bank where they grew ; And now in the grass behold they are laid, And the tree is my seat that once lent me a shade. The blackbird has fled to another retreat, Where the hazels afford him a screen from the heat, And the scene where his...
Сторінка 38 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Сторінка 7 - Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the furies arise ! See the snakes that they rear How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Сторінка 17 - Who slept in buds the day, And many a Nymph who wreathes her brows with sedge And sheds the freshening dew, and lovelier still The pensive Pleasures sweet Prepare thy shadowy car.