Poetry for Schools: Designed for Reading and Recitation. The Whole Selected from the Best Poets in the English LanguageEliza Robbins |
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... earth , and the objects which are upon the earth . Truth describes something which really exists , as God made the world . Fiction describes something which might exist , or has been supposed to exist , yet is not now really in ...
... earth , and the objects which are upon the earth . Truth describes something which really exists , as God made the world . Fiction describes something which might exist , or has been supposed to exist , yet is not now really in ...
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... earth , might be excluded from an inheritance in heaven . Besides , the kinds of poetry , that have been mention- ed , there are the mock - heroic , and the pastoral . The mock - heroic gives a fanciful importance to trivial things ...
... earth , might be excluded from an inheritance in heaven . Besides , the kinds of poetry , that have been mention- ed , there are the mock - heroic , and the pastoral . The mock - heroic gives a fanciful importance to trivial things ...
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... earth , and the hopes and pro- bable enjoyments of another life , are poetical subjects . There is a proper manner or style of writing upon these subjects , more dignified and more refined than that which we use in ordinary writing ...
... earth , and the hopes and pro- bable enjoyments of another life , are poetical subjects . There is a proper manner or style of writing upon these subjects , more dignified and more refined than that which we use in ordinary writing ...
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... purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before , unpitied and alone . When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue , his darling child , design'd , To thee he gave the heav'nly birth , And bade POETRY FOR SCHOOLS . 39.
... purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before , unpitied and alone . When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue , his darling child , design'd , To thee he gave the heav'nly birth , And bade POETRY FOR SCHOOLS . 39.
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... earth , where the language of England was to be spoken , and the poetry of Spenser to be admired . " In 1597 , a rebellion against the British government broke out in Ireland , and occasioned the precipitate flight of Spenser with his ...
... earth , where the language of England was to be spoken , and the poetry of Spenser to be admired . " In 1597 , a rebellion against the British government broke out in Ireland , and occasioned the precipitate flight of Spenser with his ...
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Page 123 - Canst thou make him afraid as a grass-hopper'? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength : he goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear and is not affrighted ; neither turneth he back from the sword.
Page 301 - Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain ; Oh, listen ! for the vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. No nightingale did ever chaunt More welcome notes to weary bands Of travellers in some shady haunt Among Arabian sands : —A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard In spring-time from the cuckoo-bird. Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides. Will no one tell me what she sings...
Page 37 - 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...
Page 247 - The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth ; When there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth...
Page 294 - And there was 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 throng'd the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips — "The foe! They come! they come!
Page 365 - And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
Page 324 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
Page 302 - Will no one tell me what she sings? Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago: Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again!
Page 67 - 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.
Page 294 - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blush'd at the praise of their own loveliness ; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs, Which ne'er might be repeated...