Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Հատոր 1Harper & Brothers, 1847 |
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... scenes of the truest pathos , of the profoundest interest , and gave instances of the most generous sacrifices , the most patient love , the most heroic duty , in the very abodes of unvisited wretchedness . He made us feel that these ...
... scenes of the truest pathos , of the profoundest interest , and gave instances of the most generous sacrifices , the most patient love , the most heroic duty , in the very abodes of unvisited wretchedness . He made us feel that these ...
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... scene which first opened on the author of The Village ! " Nor was the landscape in the vicinity of a more enga- ging aspect : open commons and sterile farms , the soil , poor and sandy , the herbage , bare and rushy , the trees , ' few ...
... scene which first opened on the author of The Village ! " Nor was the landscape in the vicinity of a more enga- ging aspect : open commons and sterile farms , the soil , poor and sandy , the herbage , bare and rushy , the trees , ' few ...
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... scenes could have been more favorable than that of his infancy and boyhood . cradled among the rough sons of the ocean - a daily wit- ness of unbridled passions , and of manners remote from the sameness and artificial smoothness of ...
... scenes could have been more favorable than that of his infancy and boyhood . cradled among the rough sons of the ocean - a daily wit- ness of unbridled passions , and of manners remote from the sameness and artificial smoothness of ...
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... scene of constant bustle and noise . On entering the house there was nothing , at first sight , to remind one of the farm : a spacious hall paved with black and white marble , at one extremity a very handsome drawing - room , and at ...
... scene of constant bustle and noise . On entering the house there was nothing , at first sight , to remind one of the farm : a spacious hall paved with black and white marble , at one extremity a very handsome drawing - room , and at ...
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... scene below . All was noise ; loud and eager talk- ing ; and odors not the most delectable , of beer , fish , and heaven knows what . The house was dirty , dark , and full of the same fumes . People , of all sorts , were passing up and ...
... scene below . All was noise ; loud and eager talk- ing ; and odors not the most delectable , of beer , fish , and heaven knows what . The house was dirty , dark , and full of the same fumes . People , of all sorts , were passing up and ...
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Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Հատոր 1 William Howitt Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1847 |
Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Հատոր 1 William Howitt Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1856 |
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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...