Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Հատոր 1Harper & Brothers, 1847 |
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Արդյունքներ 73–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... lady , who kindly supplied me with many , put one day into my hands Crabbe's Borough . It was my first acquaint- ance with him , and it occasioned me the most singular sen- sations imaginable . Intensely fond of poetry , I had read the ...
... lady , who kindly supplied me with many , put one day into my hands Crabbe's Borough . It was my first acquaint- ance with him , and it occasioned me the most singular sen- sations imaginable . Intensely fond of poetry , I had read the ...
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... lady , with her children . in her hand , wandering from the tea - table which had been spread on the sands , sees the boatmen asleep , the boat adrift , and the tide advancing : — " She gazed , she trembled , and though faint her call ...
... lady , with her children . in her hand , wandering from the tea - table which had been spread on the sands , sees the boatmen asleep , the boat adrift , and the tide advancing : — " She gazed , she trembled , and though faint her call ...
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... lady who was destined to be his wife . Before the expira- tion of his apprenticeship he had published a volume of poems . His apprenticeship terminated , he set out for Lon- don ; but unfurnished with money to attend the hospitals , he ...
... lady who was destined to be his wife . Before the expira- tion of his apprenticeship he had published a volume of poems . His apprenticeship terminated , he set out for Lon- don ; but unfurnished with money to attend the hospitals , he ...
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... lady or a gipsy , it mattered not to him ; all were equally admired . Such was the strength of his constitution , that , though he seldom went to bed sober , he retained a clear eye and stentorian voice to his eightieth year , and ...
... lady or a gipsy , it mattered not to him ; all were equally admired . Such was the strength of his constitution , that , though he seldom went to bed sober , he retained a clear eye and stentorian voice to his eightieth year , and ...
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... Lady Errol , Lady Holland , the Duchess of Rutland . He meets Mr. Fox , Mr. Canning , Foscolo ; Lords Haddington , Dundas , Strangford , etc .; Moore , Camp- bell , Sir Walter Scott , Sir James Mackintosh ; Ladies Spencer and Besborough ...
... Lady Errol , Lady Holland , the Duchess of Rutland . He meets Mr. Fox , Mr. Canning , Foscolo ; Lords Haddington , Dundas , Strangford , etc .; Moore , Camp- bell , Sir Walter Scott , Sir James Mackintosh ; Ladies Spencer and Besborough ...
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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...