Selected Lyrics from Dryden, Collins, Gray, Cowper, and BurnsCharles Swain Thomas Houghton Mifflin, 1913 - 89 էջ |
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... effect is that of a leisurely beginning , strongly con- trasting with some of the ensuing moods of passion . 24 belied : masked . Jove in his association with mortals as- sumed various forms a swan , a cloud , a shower of gold , or ...
... effect is that of a leisurely beginning , strongly con- trasting with some of the ensuing moods of passion . 24 belied : masked . Jove in his association with mortals as- sumed various forms a swan , a cloud , a shower of gold , or ...
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... effect of the repetition ? What justifies it ? 68 exposed : perhaps in the radical meaning of cast out , though the more modern meaning is applicable . 79 Lydian measures : tones that are sweet and soft . Cf. Milton's L'Allegro , 1. 136 ...
... effect of the repetition ? What justifies it ? 68 exposed : perhaps in the radical meaning of cast out , though the more modern meaning is applicable . 79 Lydian measures : tones that are sweet and soft . Cf. Milton's L'Allegro , 1. 136 ...
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... effect ? What sort of consonants ? 25-28 The changing tones are more marked in Despair's attempt . How does the poet suggest this ? 29-39 How is the characteristic of Hope brought out ? 35 What tone does Echo sound ? Why ? 39 Is there ...
... effect ? What sort of consonants ? 25-28 The changing tones are more marked in Despair's attempt . How does the poet suggest this ? 29-39 How is the characteristic of Hope brought out ? 35 What tone does Echo sound ? Why ? 39 Is there ...
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... effect is seen on Mars and on Jove . For the thought Gray says he is indebted to the first Pythian ode of Pindar . 17 Mars was anciently thought to have his seat in Thrace . 21 feather'd king : The eagle was sacred to Jove . 27 Idalia ...
... effect is seen on Mars and on Jove . For the thought Gray says he is indebted to the first Pythian ode of Pindar . 17 Mars was anciently thought to have his seat in Thrace . 21 feather'd king : The eagle was sacred to Jove . 27 Idalia ...
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... effect here is vividly portrayed . 61 These : this group of boys . 71 this : this particular boy . 82 griesly : horrible . 83 painful family : various diseases . 84 queen : death herself . HYMN TO ADVERSITY This hymn is conceived in a ...
... effect here is vividly portrayed . 61 These : this group of boys . 71 this : this particular boy . 82 griesly : horrible . 83 painful family : various diseases . 84 queen : death herself . HYMN TO ADVERSITY This hymn is conceived in a ...
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Էջ 64 - As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I, And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a' the seas gang dry. Till a" the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi
Էջ 37 - One morn I missed him on the customed 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 next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Էջ 64 - O' my sweet Highland Mary. How sweetly bloom'd the gay green birk, How rich the hawthorn's blossom, As underneath their fragrant shade I clasp'd her to my bosom ! The golden hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my dearie ; For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary. Wi...
Էջ 37 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Էջ 13 - WHEN Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft, to hear her shell, Throng'd around her magic cell...
Էջ 24 - Nor e'en thy virtues, tyrant, shall avail To save thy secret soul from nightly fears, From Cambria's curse, from Cambria's tears...
Էջ 48 - Twelve years have elapsed since I last took a view Of my favourite field, and the bank where they grew ; And now in the grass behold they are laid, And the tree is my seat that once lent me a shade. The blackbird has fled to another retreat, Where the hazels afford him a screen from the heat, And the scene where his...
Էջ 38 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Էջ 7 - Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the furies arise ! See the snakes that they rear How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Էջ 17 - Who slept in buds the day, And many a Nymph who wreathes her brows with sedge And sheds the freshening dew, and lovelier still The pensive Pleasures sweet Prepare thy shadowy car.