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... called real life ( and we do not mean to deny its palpability ) , they do not find their enjoyment of it diminished . It is increased— increased by the contrast - by the variety - by the call upon them to show the faith which books have ...
... called real life ( and we do not mean to deny its palpability ) , they do not find their enjoyment of it diminished . It is increased— increased by the contrast - by the variety - by the call upon them to show the faith which books have ...
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... called it ) would hardly have seemed complete without a chapter or two about Sindbad or the Forty Thieves , or the retirement of the Fairy Banou . The book was to have been addressed entirely to lovers of sequestered pleasures , and ...
... called it ) would hardly have seemed complete without a chapter or two about Sindbad or the Forty Thieves , or the retirement of the Fairy Banou . The book was to have been addressed entirely to lovers of sequestered pleasures , and ...
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... called the Quadruple Al- liance , and consisted of Walpole , Gray , West , and Ashton ( afterwards a clergyman ) . Walpole's schoolfellows gave themselves names out of the classics and old romances , such as Tydeus , Plato , Oroondates ...
... called the Quadruple Al- liance , and consisted of Walpole , Gray , West , and Ashton ( afterwards a clergyman ) . Walpole's schoolfellows gave themselves names out of the classics and old romances , such as Tydeus , Plato , Oroondates ...
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... had more land adjoining as fit as that . Besides this , I had my country seat , and I had now a tolerable plantation there also ; for first , I had my little bower , as I called it , which I kept 3 * AND MODE of LIFE . 57.
... had more land adjoining as fit as that . Besides this , I had my country seat , and I had now a tolerable plantation there also ; for first , I had my little bower , as I called it , which I kept 3 * AND MODE of LIFE . 57.
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Leigh Hunt. bower , as I called it , which I kept in repair ; that is to say , I kept the hedge which circled it in constantly fitted up to its usual height , the ladder standing always in the inside ; I kept the trees , which at first ...
Leigh Hunt. bower , as I called it , which I kept in repair ; that is to say , I kept the hedge which circled it in constantly fitted up to its usual height , the ladder standing always in the inside ; I kept the trees , which at first ...
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Page 46 - HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire.
Page 168 - Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me, That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome ! those caves of ice ! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware ! His flashing eyes, his floating hair, Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.
Page 166 - IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
Page 167 - And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome!
Page 226 - THE EPITAPH. Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth, A Youth, to Fortune and to Fame unknown; Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send; He gave to Misery all he had, a tear — He gained from Heaven ('twas all he wish'd), a friend.
Page 226 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favorite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 224 - Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of Death?
Page 59 - It happened one day about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand : I stood like one thunderstruck, or as if I had seen an apparition...
Page 225 - For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate ; If chance, by lonely Contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, " Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the Sun upon...
Page 29 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.