Longer English Poems: With Notes, Philological and Explanatory, and an Introduction on the Teaching of EnglishJohn Wesley Hales |
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... sweet sounds without inquiring somewhat as to how they are produced . The dif- ferent measures in poetry are like the various musical instruments . Poetry , too , has its “ trumpet's loud clangour , ” its flute for dying lovers , and ...
... sweet sounds without inquiring somewhat as to how they are produced . The dif- ferent measures in poetry are like the various musical instruments . Poetry , too , has its “ trumpet's loud clangour , ” its flute for dying lovers , and ...
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... sweet influences she grew to her present sovereign loveliness ? —what things and what persons have enjoyed the regard of her fair eyes ? We cannot indeed interpret the secret of her fairness ; but yet we would know what we may of its ...
... sweet influences she grew to her present sovereign loveliness ? —what things and what persons have enjoyed the regard of her fair eyes ? We cannot indeed interpret the secret of her fairness ; but yet we would know what we may of its ...
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... Sweet Themmes ! runne softly , till I end my Song . Eftsoones the Nymphes , which now had Flowers their fill , Ran all in haste to see that siluer brood , 55 As they came floating on the Christal Flood ; Whom when they sawe , they stood ...
... Sweet Themmes ! runne softly , till I end my Song . Eftsoones the Nymphes , which now had Flowers their fill , Ran all in haste to see that siluer brood , 55 As they came floating on the Christal Flood ; Whom when they sawe , they stood ...
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... may your foes confound , " And make your joyes redound " " ' Vpon your Brydale day , which is not long . " Sweet Themmes ! runne softlie , till I end my Song . 95 100 105 • So ended she : and all the rest around B 2 SPENSER . 3.
... may your foes confound , " And make your joyes redound " " ' Vpon your Brydale day , which is not long . " Sweet Themmes ! runne softlie , till I end my Song . 95 100 105 • So ended she : and all the rest around B 2 SPENSER . 3.
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... sweet ; O run , prevent them with thy humble ode , And lay it lowly at his blessed feet ; Have thou the honour first thy Lord to greet , And joyn thy voice unto the angel quire , From out his secret altar toucht with hallow'd fire . THE ...
... sweet ; O run , prevent them with thy humble ode , And lay it lowly at his blessed feet ; Have thou the honour first thy Lord to greet , And joyn thy voice unto the angel quire , From out his secret altar toucht with hallow'd fire . THE ...
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Adonais Æneid apud Johnson breath Burns called century chap charms Chaucer cognate common Comp death Dict doth Dream Dryden Dunciad earth Elegy English eyes Faerie Queene fair force French Gloss Gray Gray's Greek Hamlet hath hear heart heaven Henry Hist Hymn Nat Il Penseroso Iliad Jamieson Julius Cæsar King King Lear L'Alleg L'Allegro ladies language Latin lived London Lord Lycid meaning meant Merchant of Venice Midsummer Night's Dream Milton Muse never night o'er Ovid Paradise Lost Paradise Regained passim Penseroso perhaps phrase Piers Ploughman poem poet poetical poetry Pope pride Prothal quotes reign Richard II round scarcely seems sense sentence Shakspere Shakspere's sing smile song soul sound speaks Spenser spirit stanza sweet tale tears thee thou thought Twas verb Virg voice Warton wings word writes