The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes, Volume 19Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl Clarke Company, limited, 1899 |
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Pagina xliv
... object , his absolute despair , he found words so profoundly pathetic that they wring , even from the driest eyes , tears almost as abundant as those he himself shed over his dead love . He has interposed so slight a veil of ...
... object , his absolute despair , he found words so profoundly pathetic that they wring , even from the driest eyes , tears almost as abundant as those he himself shed over his dead love . He has interposed so slight a veil of ...
Pagina xlv
... object was the important matter . Unfortunately for Laprade , he combined with this purpose , even in his verses , so many vague side - issues that one loses sight of his novel idea . And amid all this philosophy , which at times was ...
... object was the important matter . Unfortunately for Laprade , he combined with this purpose , even in his verses , so many vague side - issues that one loses sight of his novel idea . And amid all this philosophy , which at times was ...
Pagina lii
... objects which possessed no real interest . It does not follow that because an event has taken place it is necessarily a poetic event ; nor is it true that everything that lives should be immortalised by art . It was said , too , that if ...
... objects which possessed no real interest . It does not follow that because an event has taken place it is necessarily a poetic event ; nor is it true that everything that lives should be immortalised by art . It was said , too , that if ...
Pagina 75
... object of a polite cold- ness , but a real evil to be combated and overthrown at every hazard . Cruelty was not to him as a disagreeable dream of the imagination , from thought of which he could save himself by arousing to sense of his ...
... object of a polite cold- ness , but a real evil to be combated and overthrown at every hazard . Cruelty was not to him as a disagreeable dream of the imagination , from thought of which he could save himself by arousing to sense of his ...
Pagina 93
... object , and pursue it through life . It was this made Cæsar a great man . His object was ambition ; he pursued it steadily , and was always ready to sacrifice to it every interfer- ing passion or inclination . There is a pretty passage ...
... object , and pursue it through life . It was this made Cæsar a great man . His object was ambition ; he pursued it steadily , and was always ready to sacrifice to it every interfer- ing passion or inclination . There is a pretty passage ...
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Pagina 274 - Stop thief ! stop thief ! — a highwayman ! Not one of them was mute ; And all and each that passed that way Did join in the pursuit. And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space ; The toll-men thinking as before, That Gilpin rode a race.
Pagina 335 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Pagina 267 - JOHN GILPIN was a citizen Of credit and renown: A train-band captain eke was he Of famous London town. John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear, " Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen. "To-morrow is our wedding-day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair. "My sister, and my sister's child, Myself and children three, Will fill the chaise ; so you must ride On horseback after we.
Pagina 58 - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness, three times as much by our Pride, and four times as much by our Folly; and from these Taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an Abatement. However let us hearken to good Advice, and something may be done for us; God helps them that help themselves, as Poor Richard says, in his Almanack of 1733.
Pagina 271 - Until he came unto the Wash Of Edmonton so gay; And there he threw the Wash about On both sides of the way, Just like unto a trundling mop, Or a wild goose at play. At Edmonton his loving wife From the balcony spied Her tender husband, wondering much To see how he did ride. "Stop, stop, John Gilpin!— Here's the house !" They all at once did cry; "The dinner waits, and we are tired;"— Said Gilpin, "So am I!
Pagina 268 - I do admire Of womankind but one, And you are she, my dearest dear, Therefore it shall be done. "I am a linendraper bold, As all the world doth know, And my good friend the calender Will lend his horse to go.
Pagina 61 - ... for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost...
Pagina 272 - Tell me you must and shall — Say why bare-headed you are come, Or why you come at all?
Pagina 65 - At present, perhaps, you may think yourselves in thriving circumstances, and that you can bear a little extravagance without injury, but — For age and want save while you may ; No morning sun lasts a whole day.
Pagina 310 - Thy silver locks, once auburn bright, Are still more lovely in my sight Than golden beams of orient light, My Mary! For could I view nor them nor thee, What sight worth seeing could I see? The sun would rise in vain for me, My Mary! Partakers of thy sad decline, Thy hands their little force resign; Yet, gently prest, press gently mine, My Mary!