Poetry for Schools: Designed for Reading and Recitation : the Whole Selected from the Best Poets in the English LanguageW.E. Dean, 1842 - 348 стор. |
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... present fashion , civil and political history is presented to young minds at an early period of study , but literary history — the peaceful influ- ence of mind upon mind — is wholly neglected ; and those who are initiated in the most ...
... present fashion , civil and political history is presented to young minds at an early period of study , but literary history — the peaceful influ- ence of mind upon mind — is wholly neglected ; and those who are initiated in the most ...
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... present certainty of for- merly acquired knowledge is the memory of that knowledge . As we know how far the little candle throws its beams , so we also know that the properties of the rose are well described . With our eyes shut , and ...
... present certainty of for- merly acquired knowledge is the memory of that knowledge . As we know how far the little candle throws its beams , so we also know that the properties of the rose are well described . With our eyes shut , and ...
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... present placed . All verses are not written in lines of ten syllables ; some are written in eight , and some few in twelve ; indeed we meet with lines in poetry of every number of syllables from three to four- teen . In poetry words are ...
... present placed . All verses are not written in lines of ten syllables ; some are written in eight , and some few in twelve ; indeed we meet with lines in poetry of every number of syllables from three to four- teen . In poetry words are ...
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... present , not at all written . Many English poets from Chaucer to Shen- stone have written Pastorals . Ambrose Phillips , a contempo- rary of Pope , wrote pastorals better than he wrote any thing else . As a specimen of this species of ...
... present , not at all written . Many English poets from Chaucer to Shen- stone have written Pastorals . Ambrose Phillips , a contempo- rary of Pope , wrote pastorals better than he wrote any thing else . As a specimen of this species of ...
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... present age - We , says he in effect , deny them to possess the understandings of men ; we consider them brute animals ; we do not punish their murderers ; and we not only deprive them of liberty and the sympathies that exist between ...
... present age - We , says he in effect , deny them to possess the understandings of men ; we consider them brute animals ; we do not punish their murderers ; and we not only deprive them of liberty and the sympathies that exist between ...
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Сторінка 248 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms, — the day Battle's...
Сторінка 31 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Сторінка 56 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Сторінка 247 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark!
Сторінка 300 - Twas autumn, and sunshine arose on the way To the home of my fathers, that welcomed me back. I flew to the pleasant fields traversed so oft In life's morning march, when my bosom was young ; I heard my own mountain-goats bleating aloft, And knew the sweet strain that the corn-reapers sung.
Сторінка 248 - Gathering" rose! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard ; and heard, too, have her Saxon foes : — How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill ! But with the breath which fills Their mountain-pipe, so fill the mountaineers With the fierce native daring which instils The stirring memory of a thousand years, And Evan's, Donald's fame rings in each clansman's ears...
Сторінка 48 - Eugh, obedient to the benders will ; The Birch for shaftes ; the Sallow for the mill ; The Mirrhe sweete-bleeding in the bitter wound ; The warlike Beech ; the Ash for nothing ill ; The fruitful! Olive ; and the Platane round ; The carver Holme ; the Maple seeldom inward sound.
Сторінка 248 - ... mounting in hot haste : the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While thronged the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips, — "The foe! They come! They come!
Сторінка 300 - By the wolf-scaring faggot that guarded the slain, At the dead of the night a sweet Vision I saw; And thrice ere the morning I dreamt it again.
Сторінка 84 - Henceforth I learn that to obey is best, And love with fear the only God, to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend...