Poems and Songs and Lecture on Poetry. With a Brief Memoir of the AuthorJohn Taylor, Bookseller, 1866 - 173 էջ |
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... soul , for the beautiful passages of the history of the past , for the beautiful prospects which expand before us in the future . Such love burning to passion , attired in imagery , and speaking in music , is the essence and the soul of ...
... soul , for the beautiful passages of the history of the past , for the beautiful prospects which expand before us in the future . Such love burning to passion , attired in imagery , and speaking in music , is the essence and the soul of ...
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... soul into dumb , deaf , and dead things , and to find even in them subjects of his sympathy , and candidates for his regard . Is was in this spirit that Sterne said , that , were he in a desert , he would love some cypress . It was in ...
... soul into dumb , deaf , and dead things , and to find even in them subjects of his sympathy , and candidates for his regard . Is was in this spirit that Sterne said , that , were he in a desert , he would love some cypress . It was in ...
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... soul winged its flight to inherit immortality . In this respect there is a parallel with Burns , whose youngest child was born on the day of her father's funeral . There may be those into whose hands this little work shall come , who ...
... soul winged its flight to inherit immortality . In this respect there is a parallel with Burns , whose youngest child was born on the day of her father's funeral . There may be those into whose hands this little work shall come , who ...
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... soul'd opinions of mankind In pompous scepticism to the world ? The thief , the blackleg , the vile tenantry That crowd the haunts of infamy and crime The desparado on the lone high way ; The silkworm sharper , with profound salaam ...
... soul'd opinions of mankind In pompous scepticism to the world ? The thief , the blackleg , the vile tenantry That crowd the haunts of infamy and crime The desparado on the lone high way ; The silkworm sharper , with profound salaam ...
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... then in one grand whole combine ; And as her silvr'y - sounding notes swell on my raptur'd ear , I think my soul transported to a far more blissful sphere . My Highland glen , my Highland glen , whate'er my 24 POEMS BY.
... then in one grand whole combine ; And as her silvr'y - sounding notes swell on my raptur'd ear , I think my soul transported to a far more blissful sphere . My Highland glen , my Highland glen , whate'er my 24 POEMS BY.
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Poems and Songs and Lecture on Poetry. With a Brief Memoir of the Author Robert Duthie Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1866 |
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Էջ 160 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh ! night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong ; Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along From peak to peak the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud ! And this is in the night.
Էջ 175 - was passed from man to man. But out spake gentle Henry, " No Frenchman is my foe: Down, down with every foreigner, but let your brethren go.
Էջ 162 - It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen!
Էջ 173 - And thou, Rochelle, our own Rochelle, proud city of the waters, Again let rapture light the eyes of all thy mourning daughters. As thou wert constant in our ills, be joyous in our joy, For cold, and stiff, and still are they who wrought thy walls annoy.
Էջ 178 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low : And through his side the last drops...
Էջ 177 - I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds...
Էջ 174 - And we cried unto the living God, who rules the fate of war, To fight for His own holy name, and Henry of Navarre.
Էջ 164 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood ; Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it...
Էջ 161 - Now, where the quick Rhone thus hath cleft his way, The mightiest of the storms hath ta'en his stand: For here, not one, but many, make their play, And fling their thunderbolts from hand to hand...
Էջ 154 - O SING unto the LORD a new song: Sing unto the LORD, all the earth.