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... thou marble - hearted fiend , How much more hideous shew'st in a child Than the sea - monster ! " -the passion of contempt in the one case , of sub- limity in the other , and of indignation in the last , is perfectly satisfied . We see ...
... thou marble - hearted fiend , How much more hideous shew'st in a child Than the sea - monster ! " -the passion of contempt in the one case , of sub- limity in the other , and of indignation in the last , is perfectly satisfied . We see ...
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... thou se coming with Palamon Licurge himself , the grete king of Trace : Blake was his berd , and manly was his face . The cercles of his eyen in his hed They gloweden betwixen yelwe and red , And like a griffon loked he about , With ...
... thou se coming with Palamon Licurge himself , the grete king of Trace : Blake was his berd , and manly was his face . The cercles of his eyen in his hed They gloweden betwixen yelwe and red , And like a griffon loked he about , With ...
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... thou mayst loved be with equal crime . * He ceased ; and then gan all the quire of birds Their divers notes to attune unto his lay , As in approvance of his pleasing wordes . The constant pair heard all that he did say , Yet swerved not ...
... thou mayst loved be with equal crime . * He ceased ; and then gan all the quire of birds Their divers notes to attune unto his lay , As in approvance of his pleasing wordes . The constant pair heard all that he did say , Yet swerved not ...
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... thou ow'dst yesterday . " - And he enters at this moment , like the crested serpent , crowned with his wrongs , stung to mad- ness , and raging for revenge ! The whole depends upon the turn of a thought . A word , a look , blows the ...
... thou ow'dst yesterday . " - And he enters at this moment , like the crested serpent , crowned with his wrongs , stung to mad- ness , and raging for revenge ! The whole depends upon the turn of a thought . A word , a look , blows the ...
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... thou profoundest Hell , Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings A mind not to be chang'd by place or time . The mind is its own place , and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell , a Hell of Heav'n . What matter where , if I be still ...
... thou profoundest Hell , Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings A mind not to be chang'd by place or time . The mind is its own place , and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell , a Hell of Heav'n . What matter where , if I be still ...
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Page 139 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Page 138 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults if belles had faults to hide : If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face and you'll forget 'em all.
Page 220 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Page 147 - ... In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half -hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay at council, in a ring...
Page 124 - Others more mild, Retreated in a silent valley, sing With notes angelical to many a harp Their own heroic deeds and hapless fall By doom of battle ; and complain that fate ' Free virtue should enthrall to force or chance.
Page 321 - What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind ; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be, In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering, In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.
Page 120 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Page 128 - Our lingering parents, and to the eastern gate Led them direct, and down the cliff as fast To the subjected plain; then disappear'd. They looking back all th...
Page 141 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar.
Page 123 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell : Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.