Poems, journals, and essaysMacmillan, 1884 - 4 sider |
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... thought no more of confuting a rascally enemy by introducing a forged paragraph into a letter , than he did of completing an unfinished stanza or of suppressing a clumsy sentence . His version of Gray's Letters is crowded with ...
... thought no more of confuting a rascally enemy by introducing a forged paragraph into a letter , than he did of completing an unfinished stanza or of suppressing a clumsy sentence . His version of Gray's Letters is crowded with ...
Side 21
... happiness too swiftly flies , Thought would destroy their paradise . No more ; where ignorance is bliss , ' Tis folly to be wise . HYMN TO ADVERSITY . Ζήνα τὸν φρονεῖν βροτοὺς ὁδώ- σαντα ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE . 21.
... happiness too swiftly flies , Thought would destroy their paradise . No more ; where ignorance is bliss , ' Tis folly to be wise . HYMN TO ADVERSITY . Ζήνα τὸν φρονεῖν βροτοὺς ὁδώ- σαντα ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE . 21.
Side 26
... thought profound , And Melancholy , silent maid , With leaden eye , that loves the ground , Still on thy solemn steps attend : Warm Charity , the gen'ral Friend , With Justice to herself severe , And Pity , dropping soft the sadly ...
... thought profound , And Melancholy , silent maid , With leaden eye , that loves the ground , Still on thy solemn steps attend : Warm Charity , the gen'ral Friend , With Justice to herself severe , And Pity , dropping soft the sadly ...
Side 30
... thoughts are borrowed from the first Pythian of Pindar.- [ Gray . ] 3 This is a weak imitation of some incomparable lines in the same Ode .- [ Gray . ] 4 Dark ] Black . - MS . 5 Power of harmony to produce all the graces of motion in ...
... thoughts are borrowed from the first Pythian of Pindar.- [ Gray . ] 3 This is a weak imitation of some incomparable lines in the same Ode .- [ Gray . ] 4 Dark ] Black . - MS . 5 Power of harmony to produce all the graces of motion in ...
Side 32
... thought ' t had heard the Morning crow , Or seen her well - appointed Star Come marching up the Eastern Hill afar . " - [ ED . ] 2 " Till fierce Hyperion from afar Pours on their scatter'd rear , his glitt'ring shafts of war , Hurls at ...
... thought ' t had heard the Morning crow , Or seen her well - appointed Star Come marching up the Eastern Hill afar . " - [ ED . ] 2 " Till fierce Hyperion from afar Pours on their scatter'd rear , his glitt'ring shafts of war , Hurls at ...
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Side 221 - Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Side 220 - Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor.
Side 17 - Windsor's heights th' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey, Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way...
Side 75 - Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of death?
Side 18 - Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace...
Side 76 - Hampden that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton, here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Side 125 - See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
Side 79 - 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.
Side 232 - He gain'd from heav'n ('twas all he wish'd) a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God.
Side 11 - The fair round face, the snowy beard, The velvet of her paws, Her coat, that with the tortoise vies, Her ears of jet, and emerald eyes, She saw; and purr'd applause.