Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Volum 1Harper & Brothers, 1847 |
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Pāgina 8
... once , I told the lender that it was the strangest , cleverest , and most absorbing book I had ever read , but that it was no poem . It was only by a second and a third perusal that the first surprise subsided ; the first shock gone by ...
... once , I told the lender that it was the strangest , cleverest , and most absorbing book I had ever read , but that it was no poem . It was only by a second and a third perusal that the first surprise subsided ; the first shock gone by ...
Pāgina 11
... once more , and then they turn aside To see how quickly flowed the coming tide ; Between each cry they find the waters steal On their strange prison , and new horrors feel . Foot after foot on the contracted ground The billows fall ...
... once more , and then they turn aside To see how quickly flowed the coming tide ; Between each cry they find the waters steal On their strange prison , and new horrors feel . Foot after foot on the contracted ground The billows fall ...
Pāgina 13
... once one of the most graphic and charming of books . From this volume we learn that the poet was born at Aldborough , in Suffolk , on the Christmas - eve of 1754. His birthplace was an old house in that range of buildings which the sea ...
... once one of the most graphic and charming of books . From this volume we learn that the poet was born at Aldborough , in Suffolk , on the Christmas - eve of 1754. His birthplace was an old house in that range of buildings which the sea ...
Pāgina 14
... once seen by an Aldborough sailor on the coast of Honduras , but never heard of again . This sailor brother , in his inquiries after all at home , had expressed much astonishment to find that George was become a clergyman , when he left ...
... once seen by an Aldborough sailor on the coast of Honduras , but never heard of again . This sailor brother , in his inquiries after all at home , had expressed much astonishment to find that George was become a clergyman , when he left ...
Pāgina 20
... once popular , and he got married . Miss Sarah Elmy , to whom he became engaged at eighteen , had , through all his struggles in the metropolis , with unswerving affection , maintained the superiority of his talents , and encouraged him ...
... once popular , and he got married . Miss Sarah Elmy , to whom he became engaged at eighteen , had , through all his struggles in the metropolis , with unswerving affection , maintained the superiority of his talents , and encouraged him ...
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Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Volum 1 William Howitt Visualitzaciķ completa - 1847 |
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Passatges populars
Pāgina 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.
Pāgina 5 - That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Pāgina 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.
Pāgina 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...
Pāgina 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...
Pāgina 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.
Pāgina 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...
Pāgina 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...
Pāgina 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.
Pāgina 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...