Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Հատոր 1R. Bentley, 1847 |
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... has put the truth past a doubt . What means , " To have thy prince's grace , yet want his peeres ' ? " What those lines at the close of the sixth book of the Faërie Queene ? ' Ne may this homely verse , of many meanest 18 SPENSER . 1.
... has put the truth past a doubt . What means , " To have thy prince's grace , yet want his peeres ' ? " What those lines at the close of the sixth book of the Faërie Queene ? ' Ne may this homely verse , of many meanest 18 SPENSER . 1.
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... close of the year 1579 , his Castle of Strancally was taken by the Earl of Or- mond , the president of Munster ; a capture which could be easily transferred to the poet's hero , Artegall . " Lord Grey was recalled , in consequence of ...
... close of the year 1579 , his Castle of Strancally was taken by the Earl of Or- mond , the president of Munster ; a capture which could be easily transferred to the poet's hero , Artegall . " Lord Grey was recalled , in consequence of ...
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... close to the house , and lying on the verge of the precipice , all glowing with dahlias , still remains a wall of the castle , which was undoubtedly inhabited by Spenser . There is an old oak on the river bank , at some distance above ...
... close to the house , and lying on the verge of the precipice , all glowing with dahlias , still remains a wall of the castle , which was undoubtedly inhabited by Spenser . There is an old oak on the river bank , at some distance above ...
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... close above , some- times for half a mile , and which at night are as dark as a dungeon . Then , again , I passed between hedges of cider- apple , all grown into trees , and giving the country - for the fields right and left were ...
... close above , some- times for half a mile , and which at night are as dark as a dungeon . Then , again , I passed between hedges of cider- apple , all grown into trees , and giving the country - for the fields right and left were ...
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... close in this unpicturesque plain at more or less distance . As I stood on the top of the massy old keep , whose walls are three yards thick , and its winding stairs of slip- pery gray marble , I seemed to be rather in a dream of ...
... close in this unpicturesque plain at more or less distance . As I stood on the top of the massy old keep , whose walls are three yards thick , and its winding stairs of slip- pery gray marble , I seemed to be rather in a dream of ...
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Էջ 100 - They are sped ; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up and are not fed, But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Dayly devours apace, and
Էջ 323 - One morn I missed him on the accustomed hill, Along the heath, and near his favorite tree; Another came ; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he." The second is from the Ode :
Էջ 486 - of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen, Round many western islands have I been, Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold ; Oft of one wide expanse have I been told, That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne ; Yet
Էջ 337 - to trace The parlor splendors of that festive place ; The whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door ; The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day. The pictures, placed
Էջ 108 - veil'd. Yet, not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song ; but chief Thee, Sion, and the flowery brooks beneath, That wash thy hallowed feet, and warbling flow, Nightly I visit : nor
Էջ 493 - bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth ! That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim ; " Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret, Here, where men sit and hear each other groan ; Where palsy shakes a few, sad,
Էջ 529 - were never to the tempest given ; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully, alar ; While burning through the inmost veil of heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the eternal are.'
Էջ 101 - bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muses' bower : The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground ; and the repeated air Of sad Electra's poet had the power To save th
Էջ 323 - ah, pleasing shade ! Ah, fields beloved in vain ! Where once my careless childhood strayed," A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow." The third is again from the Elegy : " Beneath those rugged elms, that
Էջ 395 - justified by honor : Not for to hide it in a hedge, Nor for a train attendant, But for the glorious privilege Of being independent. " The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip To haud the wretch in order, But where ye feel your honor grip, Let that aye be your border: Its slightest touches, instant