Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Հատոր 1Harper & Brothers, 1847 |
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... lived to mature years . His next brother , Robert , was a glazier , who retired from business at Southwold . John Crabbe , the third son , was a captain of a Liverpool slave- ship , who perished by an insurrection of the slaves . The ...
... lived to mature years . His next brother , Robert , was a glazier , who retired from business at Southwold . John Crabbe , the third son , was a captain of a Liverpool slave- ship , who perished by an insurrection of the slaves . The ...
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... In this obscure parsonage Crabbe lived four years . He had three children born there - his two sons , George and John , and a daughter , who died in infancy . There he published , too , his poem , The Newspaper , 20 CRABBE .
... In this obscure parsonage Crabbe lived four years . He had three children born there - his two sons , George and John , and a daughter , who died in infancy . There he published , too , his poem , The Newspaper , 20 CRABBE .
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... lived entirely in the old - fashioned kitchen , along with the servants . My great - uncle occupied an arm - chair , or , in attacks of gout , a couch on one side of a large open chimney . Mrs. Tovell sat at a small table , on which ...
... lived entirely in the old - fashioned kitchen , along with the servants . My great - uncle occupied an arm - chair , or , in attacks of gout , a couch on one side of a large open chimney . Mrs. Tovell sat at a small table , on which ...
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... lived Miss Elmy during their long attachment - had led him first to expect there . Mrs. Elmy , his wife's mother , and Miss Tovell , the sister of the old gentleman , were the coheiresses of their brother , and re- sided with him . The ...
... lived Miss Elmy during their long attachment - had led him first to expect there . Mrs. Elmy , his wife's mother , and Miss Tovell , the sister of the old gentleman , were the coheiresses of their brother , and re- sided with him . The ...
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... lived at the village of Rendham . At Muston , the shepherd being absent , all had gone wrong ; the warning voice had been fulfilled . The Methodist and the Huntingtonian had , in the absence of the pastor , set up their tabernacles ...
... lived at the village of Rendham . At Muston , the shepherd being absent , all had gone wrong ; the warning voice had been fulfilled . The Methodist and the Huntingtonian had , in the absence of the pastor , set up their tabernacles ...
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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...