Lectures on the English PoetsJ. Wiley, 1849 - 255 من الصفحات |
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... trees , as much enamoured of her charms as he ? Homer has celebrated the anger of Achilles : but was not the hero as mad as the poet ? Plato banished the poets from his Commonwealth , lest their descriptions of the natural man should ...
... trees , as much enamoured of her charms as he ? Homer has celebrated the anger of Achilles : but was not the hero as mad as the poet ? Plato banished the poets from his Commonwealth , lest their descriptions of the natural man should ...
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... tree , and requires an arti- ficial process to let it out . Shakspeare says- " Our poesy is as a gum Which issues whence ' tis nourished , our gentle flame Provokes itself , and , like the current , flies Each bound it chafes . " * I ...
... tree , and requires an arti- ficial process to let it out . Shakspeare says- " Our poesy is as a gum Which issues whence ' tis nourished , our gentle flame Provokes itself , and , like the current , flies Each bound it chafes . " * I ...
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... tree That ever yet in all my life I sie As full of blossomes as it might be , Therein a goldfinch leaping pretile Fro bough to bough , and as him list he eet Here and there of buds and floures sweet . And to the herber side was joyning ...
... tree That ever yet in all my life I sie As full of blossomes as it might be , Therein a goldfinch leaping pretile Fro bough to bough , and as him list he eet Here and there of buds and floures sweet . And to the herber side was joyning ...
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... trees old Of stubbes sharpe and hidous to behold ; In which ther ran a romble and a swough As though a storm shuld bresten every bough . " And again , among innumerable terrific images of death and LECTURE II . ] 35 ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER .
... trees old Of stubbes sharpe and hidous to behold ; In which ther ran a romble and a swough As though a storm shuld bresten every bough . " And again , among innumerable terrific images of death and LECTURE II . ] 35 ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER .
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... tree : " Upon the top of all his lofty crest , A bunch of hairs discolour'd diversely With sprinkled pearl and gold full richly drest , Did shake and seem'd to daunce for jollity ; Like LECTURE II . ] 41 ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER .
... tree : " Upon the top of all his lofty crest , A bunch of hairs discolour'd diversely With sprinkled pearl and gold full richly drest , Did shake and seem'd to daunce for jollity ; Like LECTURE II . ] 41 ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER .
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الصفحة 120 - The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
الصفحة 183 - But Nature, in due course of time, once more Shall here put on her beauty and her bloom. "She leaves these objects to a slow decay, That what we are, and have been, may be known ; But at the coming of the milder day These monuments shall all be overgrown.
الصفحة 136 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
الصفحة 93 - Villiers lies — alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay at council, in a ring Of mimic statesmen and their merry King.
الصفحة 185 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
الصفحة 140 - midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams. Or if chill blustering winds, or driving rain, Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut That from the mountain's side Views wilds and swelling floods, And hamlets brown and dim-discover'd spires, And hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
الصفحة 76 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
الصفحة 194 - Under the opening eyelids of the Morn, We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn. Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night, Oft till the star that rose at evening, bright, Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel.
الصفحة 194 - But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
الصفحة 200 - For softness she, and sweet attractive grace ; He for God only, she for God in him...