Afternoons with the PoetsHarper & brothers, 1879 - 320 էջ |
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... replied , sleepily , but without hesitation , " has it ever occurred to your matter - of - fact mind that a fool can ask a question that will gravel the wisest philosopher ? Now , don't let your angry passions rise , as saith the divine ...
... replied , sleepily , but without hesitation , " has it ever occurred to your matter - of - fact mind that a fool can ask a question that will gravel the wisest philosopher ? Now , don't let your angry passions rise , as saith the divine ...
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... replied , with imperturbable unhaste , as he emitted a cloud of smoke and watched its graceful vagaries for a moment or two in lei- surely silence . " Perhaps I may be searching my mind for an answer , or I may be manoeuvring for time ...
... replied , with imperturbable unhaste , as he emitted a cloud of smoke and watched its graceful vagaries for a moment or two in lei- surely silence . " Perhaps I may be searching my mind for an answer , or I may be manoeuvring for time ...
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... replied , laughing gayly , " you remind me of an anecdote which I must tell you : In my younger days the com- mandant of a crack military company in my native place was a fine - looking and very intelligent tailor . The colonel , for ...
... replied , laughing gayly , " you remind me of an anecdote which I must tell you : In my younger days the com- mandant of a crack military company in my native place was a fine - looking and very intelligent tailor . The colonel , for ...
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... replied , " don't say ' the subject of which we have been talking , ' for you very well know that the talk has been like the handle of a jug . Still , I am fast be- coming interested in the hobby that I set prancing so unwit- tingly ...
... replied , " don't say ' the subject of which we have been talking , ' for you very well know that the talk has been like the handle of a jug . Still , I am fast be- coming interested in the hobby that I set prancing so unwit- tingly ...
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... replied , " and many persons will agree with you , not only as your criticism applies to Dante's sonnets but to Petrarch's also . Of the two , however , the latter is the most open to it . Many of Dante's sonnets rise very near- ly to ...
... replied , " and many persons will agree with you , not only as your criticism applies to Dante's sonnets but to Petrarch's also . Of the two , however , the latter is the most open to it . Many of Dante's sonnets rise very near- ly to ...
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Էջ 162 - Hast reared God's trophies, and his work pursued ; While Darwen stream, with blood of Scots imbrued, And Dunbar field, resounds thy praises loud, And Worcester's laureate wreath...
Էջ 72 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no ! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken ; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth "s unknown, although his height be taken.
Էջ 73 - Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world, dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Suppos'd as forfeit to a confin'd doom.
Էջ 172 - In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire. These ears, alas ! for other notes repine ; A different object do these eyes require ; My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine ; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire...
Էջ 106 - Since there's no help, come, let us kiss and part! Nay, I have done. You get no more of me! And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart, That thus so cleanly I myself can free. Shake hands for ever! Cancel all our vows! And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.
Էջ 163 - O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe.
Էջ 70 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's •waste...
Էջ 164 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one Talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He returning chide, "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?
Էջ 227 - Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. // Near them, on the sand, / Half sunk, / a shattered visage lies, / whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, / Tell that its sculptor / well those passions read / Which yet survive, / stamped on these lifeless things, / The hand that mocked them, / and the heart that fed: // And on the pedestal / these words appear: // "My...
Էջ 310 - Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came; And lo, Creation widened in man's view.