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... poet , but the poet who had the sagacity to see into the real state of things , and the heart to do his duty- the great marks of the true poet , who is necessarily a true and feeling man . To him popular education , popular freedom ...
... poet , but the poet who had the sagacity to see into the real state of things , and the heart to do his duty- the great marks of the true poet , who is necessarily a true and feeling man . To him popular education , popular freedom ...
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... poet's Dorsetshire livings for those of Muston , in Leicestershire , and Allington , in Lincolnshire , but near each other , -Mr . Crabbe , in 1789 , left Stathern , and entered on his rectory at Muston . Here his life con- tinued much ...
... poet's Dorsetshire livings for those of Muston , in Leicestershire , and Allington , in Lincolnshire , but near each other , -Mr . Crabbe , in 1789 , left Stathern , and entered on his rectory at Muston . Here his life con- tinued much ...
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... poet as voluntarily choosing as a place of residence . It is a manufacturing town of about twelve thousand inhab- itants , chiefly of the working class , with a sprinkling of shop- keepers and wealthy manufacturers . It has no striking ...
... poet as voluntarily choosing as a place of residence . It is a manufacturing town of about twelve thousand inhab- itants , chiefly of the working class , with a sprinkling of shop- keepers and wealthy manufacturers . It has no striking ...
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... poet . I ascended into the pulpit , and imagined how often the author of The Borough had stood there and addressed his congregation . There is a monument to his memory in the chancel , by Baillie . The old man is repre- sented as lying ...
... poet . I ascended into the pulpit , and imagined how often the author of The Borough had stood there and addressed his congregation . There is a monument to his memory in the chancel , by Baillie . The old man is repre- sented as lying ...
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... poet ; yet how infinite is the distance between the two ! Burns's poetry is full of that true philosophy of life , of those noble and manly truths which are expres- sions for eternity of what lives in every bosom , but can not form ...
... poet ; yet how infinite is the distance between the two ! Burns's poetry is full of that true philosophy of life , of those noble and manly truths which are expres- sions for eternity of what lives in every bosom , but can not form ...
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Side 520 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Side 5 - That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Side 519 - Lady Clara Vere de Vere, Some meeker pupil you must find, For were you queen of all that is, I could not stoop to such a mind. You sought to prove how I could love, And my disdain is my reply. The lion on your old stone gates Is not more cold to you than I.
Side 5 - Fast by the oracle of God; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly Thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples th...
Side 4 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Side 521 - Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.
Side 524 - Fool, again the dream, the fancy ! but I know my words are wild, But I count the gray barbarian lower than the Christian child. I, to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains, Like a beast with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower pains...
Side 337 - But from that hour forgot the smart, And Peace bound up my broken heart. In prison I saw Him next, condemned To meet a traitor's doom at morn ; The tide of lying tongues I...
Side 512 - A still salt pool, lock'd in with bars of sand, Left on the shore ; that hears all night The plunging seas draw backward from the land Their moon-led waters white.
Side 524 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward, let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro...