Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Հատոր 1Harper & Brothers, 1847 |
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... 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 and far between , ' and withered and stunted ...
... 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 and far between , ' and withered and stunted ...
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... Village , which was at once popular , and he got married . Miss Sarah Elmy , to whom he became engaged at eighteen , had , through all his struggles in the metropolis , with unswerving affection , maintained the superiority of his ...
... Village , which was at once popular , and he got married . Miss Sarah Elmy , to whom he became engaged at eighteen , had , through all his struggles in the metropolis , with unswerving affection , maintained the superiority of his ...
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... village life , that he was gradually forgotten as a living author , and the name of Crabbe only remembered through some passages of his poems in the Elegant Extracts . Of the four years spent in Stathern , he used to speak as the very ...
... village life , that he was gradually forgotten as a living author , and the name of Crabbe only remembered through some passages of his poems in the Elegant Extracts . Of the four years spent in Stathern , he used to speak as the very ...
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... village ; and the church at which he preached at Sweffling was convenient . At Parham , he was not more popular out doors than he was in , because he was no jovial fellow , like Mr. Tovell , and did not like much visiting . Here , he ...
... village ; and the church at which he preached at Sweffling was convenient . At Parham , he was not more popular out doors than he was in , because he was no jovial fellow , like Mr. Tovell , and did not like much visiting . Here , he ...
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... 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 , and had be ...
... 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 , and had be ...
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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...