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Pagina 1
... And never meant the rule should be applied To him , that fights with justice on his side . Let laurels , drenched in pure Parnassian dews , Reward his memory , dear to every muse , VOL . I. B Who , with a courage of unshaken root , In.
... And never meant the rule should be applied To him , that fights with justice on his side . Let laurels , drenched in pure Parnassian dews , Reward his memory , dear to every muse , VOL . I. B Who , with a courage of unshaken root , In.
Pagina 16
... muse , his passion and his theme ; Genius is thine , and thou art fancy's nurse ; Lost without thee the ennobling power of verse ; Heroic song from thy free touch acquires Its clearest tone , the rapture it inspires : Place me where ...
... muse , his passion and his theme ; Genius is thine , and thou art fancy's nurse ; Lost without thee the ennobling power of verse ; Heroic song from thy free touch acquires Its clearest tone , the rapture it inspires : Place me where ...
Pagina 26
... muse imparts , and can command the lyre , Acts with a force , and kindles with a zeal , Whatever the theme , that others never feel . If human woes her soft attention claim , A tender sympathy pervades the frame , She pours a ...
... muse imparts , and can command the lyre , Acts with a force , and kindles with a zeal , Whatever the theme , that others never feel . If human woes her soft attention claim , A tender sympathy pervades the frame , She pours a ...
Pagina 29
... muse to such a theme , The fruit of all her labour is whipt - cream . As if an eagle flew aloft , and then- Stooped from its highest pitch to pounce a wren . As if the poet , purposing to wed , Should carve himself a wife in gingerbread ...
... muse to such a theme , The fruit of all her labour is whipt - cream . As if an eagle flew aloft , and then- Stooped from its highest pitch to pounce a wren . As if the poet , purposing to wed , Should carve himself a wife in gingerbread ...
Pagina 33
... muse a crime ; Verse , in the finest mould of fancy cast , Was lumber in an age so void of taste ; But , when the second Charles assumed the And arts revived beneath a softer day , Then , like a bow long forced into a curve , sway , The ...
... muse a crime ; Verse , in the finest mould of fancy cast , Was lumber in an age so void of taste ; But , when the second Charles assumed the And arts revived beneath a softer day , Then , like a bow long forced into a curve , sway , The ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 423 - 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 417 - For saddle-tree scarce reached had he, His journey to begin, When, turning round his head, he saw Three customers come in. So down he came; for loss of time, Although it grieved him sore, Yet loss of pence, full well he knew. Would trouble him much more. 'Twas long before the customers Were suited to their mind, When Betty screaming came down stairs, 'The wine is left behind!' ' Good lack,' quoth he — ' yet bring it me, My leathern belt likewise, In which I bear my trusty sword, When I do exercise.
Pagina 419 - So, Fair and softly ! John he cried ; But John he cried in vain, That trot became a gallop soon, In spite of curb and rein.
Pagina 298 - Tis easy to resign a toilsome place, But not to manage leisure with a grace; Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant, is a mind distress'd.
Pagina 322 - Ye winds ! that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? Oh, tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Pagina 431 - The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown : No traveller ever reached that blest abode, Who found not thorns and briars in his road.
Pagina 304 - a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper solitude is sweet.
Pagina 375 - All sustain'd by patience, taught us Only by a broken heart! / Deem our nation brutes no longer, Till some reason ye shall find Worthier of regard, and stronger Than the colour of our kind. Slaves of gold, whose sordid dealings Tarnish all your boasted powers, Prove that you have human feelings, Ere you proudly question ours ! PITY FOR POOR AFRICANS.
Pagina 320 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Pagina 414 - 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.