Poetry for Schools: Designed for Reading and Recitation : the Whole Selected from the Best Poets in the English LanguageW.E. Dean, 1842 - 348 pagina's |
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... soon ceases to give pleasure . The fol- The Epitaph is designed for a memorial of the dead , and is generally a few verses inscribed upon a tombstone . lowing has been much admired . 66 ON THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE . " Underneath this ...
... soon ceases to give pleasure . The fol- The Epitaph is designed for a memorial of the dead , and is generally a few verses inscribed upon a tombstone . lowing has been much admired . 66 ON THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE . " Underneath this ...
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... whom they were strangers , but in whose house they had fared sumptuously the night before . Wine was presented to them in a valuable silver cup , which the younger , at his departure , stole , and soon POETRY FOR SCHOOLS . 27.
... whom they were strangers , but in whose house they had fared sumptuously the night before . Wine was presented to them in a valuable silver cup , which the younger , at his departure , stole , and soon POETRY FOR SCHOOLS . 27.
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... soon after showed to the hermit . The virtuous old man , struck with the dishonesty and ingratitude of the youth , regards him with the horror he would have felt at the sight of a venomous snake , suddenly discovered in his path . The ...
... soon after showed to the hermit . The virtuous old man , struck with the dishonesty and ingratitude of the youth , regards him with the horror he would have felt at the sight of a venomous snake , suddenly discovered in his path . The ...
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... soon afterwards of Homer , was trans- lated into English verse near this time . Dr. Johnson commen- ces his Lives of the Poets with the life of Cowley , and classes him with Donne , Waller , and some other poets who had lived during the ...
... soon afterwards of Homer , was trans- lated into English verse near this time . Dr. Johnson commen- ces his Lives of the Poets with the life of Cowley , and classes him with Donne , Waller , and some other poets who had lived during the ...
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... soon I rede * thee hence remove , Lest thou the price of my displeasure prove . " So spake this bold Breere with great disdain , Little him answered the Oak again , But yielded , with shame and grief adawed , † That of a weed he was ...
... soon I rede * thee hence remove , Lest thou the price of my displeasure prove . " So spake this bold Breere with great disdain , Little him answered the Oak again , But yielded , with shame and grief adawed , † That of a weed he was ...
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Æschylus Ajut ancient Anningait arms Babylon battle beautiful behold beneath blood-hound bosom Branksome breath bright brothers called chief chivalry Comus courser crown Cymbeline dark dead death deep divine dread Druid earth Elidurus England English English poetry Euripides eyes fair father fear fell flowers gave genius gentle glory grace grave Greece Greeks hand hath head heard heart heaven Hector holy honour human Iliad immortal king king of England Lady land light living Lord Lord Byron Lycian Milton mind Minstrel mountain never night noble o'er Patroclus persons poem poet poetry Polynices praise prince queen Rizpah rock Romans Rome round Sarpedon says Shakspeare shore Sir Walter Scott smile soft song Sophocles sorrow soul spirit stood sweet tears thee thine thou thought throne toil tomb Troy Ulysses verses voice wave wild wind wings woods young
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Pagina 248 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms, — the day Battle's...
Pagina 31 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Pagina 56 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Pagina 247 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark!
Pagina 300 - Twas autumn, and sunshine arose on the way To the home of my fathers, that welcomed me back. I flew to the pleasant fields traversed so oft In life's morning march, when my bosom was young ; I heard my own mountain-goats bleating aloft, And knew the sweet strain that the corn-reapers sung.
Pagina 248 - Gathering" rose! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard ; and heard, too, have her Saxon foes : — How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill ! But with the breath which fills Their mountain-pipe, so fill the mountaineers With the fierce native daring which instils The stirring memory of a thousand years, And Evan's, Donald's fame rings in each clansman's ears...
Pagina 48 - Eugh, obedient to the benders will ; The Birch for shaftes ; the Sallow for the mill ; The Mirrhe sweete-bleeding in the bitter wound ; The warlike Beech ; the Ash for nothing ill ; The fruitful! Olive ; and the Platane round ; The carver Holme ; the Maple seeldom inward sound.
Pagina 248 - ... mounting in hot haste : the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While thronged the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips, — "The foe! They come! They come!
Pagina 300 - By the wolf-scaring faggot that guarded the slain, At the dead of the night a sweet Vision I saw; And thrice ere the morning I dreamt it again.
Pagina 84 - Henceforth I learn that to obey is best, And love with fear the only God, to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend...