Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Volum 1Harper & Brothers, 1847 |
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Pàgina 9
... look the world around , Spy out a single spot in fairy ground , Where all in turns ideal forms behold , And plots are laid , and histories are told . " To these home - truths , succeeds that admirable satirical description of our novel ...
... look the world around , Spy out a single spot in fairy ground , Where all in turns ideal forms behold , And plots are laid , and histories are told . " To these home - truths , succeeds that admirable satirical description of our novel ...
Pàgina 12
... look before my life be gone , Oh ! give me that and let me not despair , One last fond look - and now repeat the prayer . ' She placed a decent stone his grave above , Neatly engraved - an offering of her love , For that she wrought ...
... look before my life be gone , Oh ! give me that and let me not despair , One last fond look - and now repeat the prayer . ' She placed a decent stone his grave above , Neatly engraved - an offering of her love , For that she wrought ...
Pàgina 41
... looks . Wilson was then utterly unknown in Edinburgh , except slightly to Mr. Walter Scott , who never introduces any one person to another , nor judges it of any avail . However , having no other shift left , I sat down and wrote him a ...
... looks . Wilson was then utterly unknown in Edinburgh , except slightly to Mr. Walter Scott , who never introduces any one person to another , nor judges it of any avail . However , having no other shift left , I sat down and wrote him a ...
Pàgina 57
... look , and as still was her ee , As the stillness that lay on the emerant lea , As the mist that sleeps on a waveless sea . For Kilmeny had been she knew not where , And Kilmeny had seen what she could not declare ; Kilmeny had been ...
... look , and as still was her ee , As the stillness that lay on the emerant lea , As the mist that sleeps on a waveless sea . For Kilmeny had been she knew not where , And Kilmeny had seen what she could not declare ; Kilmeny had been ...
Pàgina 62
... look as the very hills of heaven under the evening light , with their white flocks dotting them all over , and the shepherds shout- ing , and their dogs barking from afar . And dark , beauti- fully dark , they can look beneath the ...
... look as the very hills of heaven under the evening light , with their white flocks dotting them all over , and the shepherds shout- ing , and their dogs barking from afar . And dark , beauti- fully dark , they can look beneath the ...
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Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 5 - That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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...