Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Հատոր 2Carey and Hart, 1842 |
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... rest of his sullen length is palsied by frost , and looks livid and more livid at every distant and more distant winding . on that tower of snow ? Crows roosting innumerous on a huge tree - but they caw not in their hunger . Neither ...
... rest of his sullen length is palsied by frost , and looks livid and more livid at every distant and more distant winding . on that tower of snow ? Crows roosting innumerous on a huge tree - but they caw not in their hunger . Neither ...
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... rest , was ready to come at the bidding of her smiles . Skilful those small white hands of hers among the reeds and rushes and osiers - and many a pretty flower - basket grew beneath their touch , her parents wondering on their return ...
... rest , was ready to come at the bidding of her smiles . Skilful those small white hands of hers among the reeds and rushes and osiers - and many a pretty flower - basket grew beneath their touch , her parents wondering on their return ...
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... rest of the passage - beginning with man's godlike face . But here is a passage which will live for ever - in which not one word could be altered for the better - not one omitted but for the worse - not one added that would not be ...
... rest of the passage - beginning with man's godlike face . But here is a passage which will live for ever - in which not one word could be altered for the better - not one omitted but for the worse - not one added that would not be ...
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... rest blossoms , till the song is like a stalk laden with its own beauty , and laying itself down in languid delight on the soft bed of moss - song and flower alike having the same dying fall ! " Perhaps the above is pure nonsense - but ...
... rest blossoms , till the song is like a stalk laden with its own beauty , and laying itself down in languid delight on the soft bed of moss - song and flower alike having the same dying fall ! " Perhaps the above is pure nonsense - but ...
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... rest " In shape and gesture proudly eminent , " was Dr. Parr ! What could he - who thus bowed down before an image as expressionless as the block on which his own buzz - wig was trimmed , believing it to be the living Shakspeare - what ...
... rest " In shape and gesture proudly eminent , " was Dr. Parr ! What could he - who thus bowed down before an image as expressionless as the block on which his own buzz - wig was trimmed , believing it to be the living Shakspeare - what ...
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Էջ 10 - Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Էջ 21 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord ' taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Էջ 356 - MARY YE banks and braes and streams around The castle o' Montgomery, Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, Your waters never drumlie! There simmer first unfauld her robes, And there the langest tarry; For there I took the last fareweel O
Էջ 357 - O pale, pale now, those rosy lips, I aft hae kiss'd sae fondly ! And closed for aye the sparkling glance That dwelt on me sae kindly : And mouldering now in silent dust That heart that lo'ed me dearly ! But still within my bosom's core Shall live my Highland Mary.
Էջ 352 - Let him follow me! By Oppression's woes and pains! By your sons in servile chains! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free! •Lay the proud usurpers low ! Tyrants fall in every foe ! Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die...
Էջ 133 - Blessings be with them — and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares, The Poets, who on earth have made us Heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays ! Oh ! might my name be numbered among theirs, Then gladly would I end my mortal days.
Էջ 25 - Let down the flood, and half dissolved by day, Rustles no more; but to the sedgy bank Fast grows, or gathers round the pointed stone, A crystal pavement, by the breath of Heaven Cemented firm ; till, seized from shore to shore, The whole imprison'd river growls below.
Էջ 354 - For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that, The pith o' sense and pride o' worth Are higher ranks than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may — As come it will for a' that — That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth. May bear the gree, and a' that. For a' that, and a' that, It's comin' yet, for a' that, — That man to man, the warld o'er.
Էջ 29 - Beneath the formless wild; but wanders on From hill to dale, still more and more astray : Impatient flouncing through the drifted heaps, Stung with the thoughts of home; the thoughts of home Rush on his nerves> and call their vigour forth In many a vain attempt.
Էջ 355 - THEIR groves o' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Where bright-beaming summers exalt the perfume ; Far dearer to me yon lone glen o' green breckan, Wi' the burn stealing under the lang yellow broom. Far dearer to me are yon humble broom bowers, Where the blue-bell and gowan lurk lowly unseen : For there, lightly tripping amang the wild flowers, A listening the linnet, aft wanders my Jean. Tho...