Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Հատոր 1Harper & Brothers, 1847 |
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Արդյունքներ 63–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... heard the language and beheld the lives Of lass and lover , goddesses and wives , That books which promise much of life to give Should show so little how we truly live . " To me it seems , their females and their men Are but the ...
... heard the language and beheld the lives Of lass and lover , goddesses and wives , That books which promise much of life to give Should show so little how we truly live . " To me it seems , their females and their men Are but the ...
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... heard of again . This sailor brother , in his inquiries after all at home , had expressed much astonishment to find that George was become a clergyman , when he left him a doctor ; and on this incident Crabbe afterward founded the ...
... heard of again . This sailor brother , in his inquiries after all at home , had expressed much astonishment to find that George was become a clergyman , when he left him a doctor ; and on this incident Crabbe afterward founded the ...
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... heard my father describe a tremendous spring - tide of , I think , the 17th of January , 1779 , when eleven houses here were at once demolished ; and he saw the breakers dash over the roofs , and round the walls , and crush all to ruin ...
... heard my father describe a tremendous spring - tide of , I think , the 17th of January , 1779 , when eleven houses here were at once demolished ; and he saw the breakers dash over the roofs , and round the walls , and crush all to ruin ...
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... heard chiding the delay - not that scolding was peculiar to any occasion , it regularly went on through all the day , like bells on harness , inspiriting the work whether it was done ill or well . After the important business of the ...
... heard chiding the delay - not that scolding was peculiar to any occasion , it regularly went on through all the day , like bells on harness , inspiriting the work whether it was done ill or well . After the important business of the ...
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... heard , except the melancholy and monotonous cooing of a turtle- dove , varied with the shrill treble of a canary . After the hour had expired , the active part of the family were on the alert ; the bottles - Mr . Tovell's tea equipage ...
... heard , except the melancholy and monotonous cooing of a turtle- dove , varied with the shrill treble of a canary . After the hour had expired , the active part of the family were on the alert ; the bottles - Mr . Tovell's tea equipage ...
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Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Հատոր 1 William Howitt Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1847 |
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Էջ 520 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Էջ 5 - That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Էջ 519 - Lady Clara Vere de Vere, Some meeker pupil you must find, For were you queen of all that is, I could not stoop to such a mind. You sought to prove how I could love, And my disdain is my reply. The lion on your old stone gates Is not more cold to you than I.
Էջ 5 - Fast by the oracle of God; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly Thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples th...
Էջ 4 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Էջ 521 - Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.
Էջ 524 - Fool, again the dream, the fancy ! but I know my words are wild, But I count the gray barbarian lower than the Christian child. I, to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains, Like a beast with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower pains...
Էջ 337 - But from that hour forgot the smart, And Peace bound up my broken heart. In prison I saw Him next, condemned To meet a traitor's doom at morn ; The tide of lying tongues I...
Էջ 512 - A still salt pool, lock'd in with bars of sand, Left on the shore ; that hears all night The plunging seas draw backward from the land Their moon-led waters white.
Էջ 524 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward, let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro...