The Bardiad: A Poem ; in Two CantosLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, etc., etc., Originally published as an ode.-Pref., 1823 - 286 من الصفحات |
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... the walls of sullen bondage smile . Mid tombs and stars the florid HERVEY glows , Writes as a Poet , tho ' he writes in prose . * Johnson's Lives of the Poets . - Art . Young . Nay , scarce can we to pensive Bard allude , 8 THE BARDIAD .
... the walls of sullen bondage smile . Mid tombs and stars the florid HERVEY glows , Writes as a Poet , tho ' he writes in prose . * Johnson's Lives of the Poets . - Art . Young . Nay , scarce can we to pensive Bard allude , 8 THE BARDIAD .
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... star , ) Are softly falling from her evening car , With bursting anguish vents a fruitless moan , And dews with grief th ' unsullied church - yard stone . * Warton's " Pleasures of Melancholy . " D Sorrow , indeed , has foster'd many a ...
... star , ) Are softly falling from her evening car , With bursting anguish vents a fruitless moan , And dews with grief th ' unsullied church - yard stone . * Warton's " Pleasures of Melancholy . " D Sorrow , indeed , has foster'd many a ...
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... stars were dimming fast away , As nearer drew her bright MESSIAH's Day . With scheme delusive , artful , fervid , bold , Composed to charm the mind of Eastern mould , The ARABIAN SEER , with bright luxuriant line , Secur'd his " Koran ...
... stars were dimming fast away , As nearer drew her bright MESSIAH's Day . With scheme delusive , artful , fervid , bold , Composed to charm the mind of Eastern mould , The ARABIAN SEER , with bright luxuriant line , Secur'd his " Koran ...
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... ruthless Time defy . As on some night the spangled arch we view , When o'er the welkin spreads a palish blue , * Milton's " Paradise Lost , " Book I. line 26 . No stars with brilliance on the sight obtrude , But 58 THE BARDIAD .
... ruthless Time defy . As on some night the spangled arch we view , When o'er the welkin spreads a palish blue , * Milton's " Paradise Lost , " Book I. line 26 . No stars with brilliance on the sight obtrude , But 58 THE BARDIAD .
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A Poem ; in Two Cantos Charles Burton. No stars with brilliance on the sight obtrude , But those which shine of largest magnitude . Fame , so capricious in her high behest , But seldom makes her living Poets blest ; Midst tombs and ...
A Poem ; in Two Cantos Charles Burton. No stars with brilliance on the sight obtrude , But those which shine of largest magnitude . Fame , so capricious in her high behest , But seldom makes her living Poets blest ; Midst tombs and ...
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Amorites awful Bard beam beauty blast blessings Book of Job breast breath bright bursting Castle of Indolence CHARLOTTE SMITH charm Chaucer clouds critical dark death deep divine dread earth enchanting epic poetry Ettrick fairy fancy Fingal fire flower gales genius glow grief hand harmony harp hath heart heaven Hebrew Henriade Heshbon hill Hope king Knight's Tale language light lone Lord lyre melody mind Minstrel Moab moon mountain Muse nature never night numbers o'er Ossian pale Palemon passion Poem poetical Poetry Poets praise pride rapture reader rise rock round sacred scene seraphic Sihon sing smile soft song sorrow soul sound Spenser spirit stars storm strain sublime sweet taste tear tell thee thine thou shalt thought trembling unto verse voice wandering wave wild wind wings wretch
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الصفحة 190 - The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty Go<J of Jacob : (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel...
الصفحة 201 - Who can count the dust of Jacob, And the number of the fourth part of Israel ? Let me die the death of the righteous, And let my last end be like his...
الصفحة 187 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar...
الصفحة 176 - Less than a god they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so well. What passion cannot Music raise and quell?
الصفحة 175 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.
الصفحة 196 - See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me : I kill, and I make alive ; I wound, and I heal : neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
الصفحة 190 - Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion. Who shall rouse him up? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
الصفحة 100 - But hark ! a rap comes gently to the door ; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad cam' o'er the moor, To do some errands, and convoy her hame. The wily mother sees the conscious flame Sparkle in Jenny's e'e, and flush her cheek ; With heart-struck anxious care, inquires his name, While Jenny hafflins is afraid to speak : Weel pleased the mother hears it's nae wild, worthless rake. Wi...
الصفحة 136 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
الصفحة 194 - Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy. And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: Thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble. And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, The floods stood upright as a heap, And the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.