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... the fit costumes of the various moods of the poetical spirit ; they are the figures which that mighty plastic force moulds , as it were , with its own hands . IV . ( v . ) And now something might THE TEACHING of english . XXV.
... the fit costumes of the various moods of the poetical spirit ; they are the figures which that mighty plastic force moulds , as it were , with its own hands . IV . ( v . ) And now something might THE TEACHING of english . XXV.
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... force of each one ? Perhaps if the student made himself short lists of words in which they occur , he might , by comparing the words of each list together , gather that force ; and such an attempt at induction would be most valuable ...
... force of each one ? Perhaps if the student made himself short lists of words in which they occur , he might , by comparing the words of each list together , gather that force ; and such an attempt at induction would be most valuable ...
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... force of feat , of panoply , of sable , of sable shroud ( a phrase borrowed from Milton's Lycidas , l . 22 ) , of buttress , of pale , of gifted , & c . A pupil's knowledge is probably not of much value if he cannot reproduce it . It ...
... force of feat , of panoply , of sable , of sable shroud ( a phrase borrowed from Milton's Lycidas , l . 22 ) , of buttress , of pale , of gifted , & c . A pupil's knowledge is probably not of much value if he cannot reproduce it . It ...
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... force in these old scenes . one put a scroll of written agony in Laocoön's mouth ? Shall Niobe cry aloud , " Me miseram ? " The figures are enough ; voices , sobs , shrieks are not wanted . What can be more effective than that simple ...
... force in these old scenes . one put a scroll of written agony in Laocoön's mouth ? Shall Niobe cry aloud , " Me miseram ? " The figures are enough ; voices , sobs , shrieks are not wanted . What can be more effective than that simple ...
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... force to ravish , or by fraud betray ; For when success a Lover's toil attends , Few ask , if fraud or force attain'd his ends . For this , e'er Phoebus rose , he had implor'd Propitious heav'n , and ev'ry pow'r ador'd , But chiefly ...
... force to ravish , or by fraud betray ; For when success a Lover's toil attends , Few ask , if fraud or force attain'd his ends . For this , e'er Phoebus rose , he had implor'd Propitious heav'n , and ev'ry pow'r ador'd , But chiefly ...
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A. W. VERRALL Adonais Æneid ancient apud Assistant-Master beauty Book breast breath called Cambridge charms Chaucer Christ's College Comp Crown 8vo death Dict doth Dryden earth Elegy English Extra fcap eyes Faerie Queene fair fcap Fellow of Trinity flowers force French Globe 8vo Gray's Greek hath hear heart heaven Henry Hymn Nat Il Penseroso Johnson King King Lear L'Allegro ladies language late Fellow Latin living London Lord Lycid Lycidas MACMILLAN'S EDUCATIONAL CATALOGUE meaning meant Midsummer Night's Dream Milton never night nymph o'er Ovid Owens College Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Penseroso perhaps phrase Piers Ploughman poem poet poetry pride Professor round School sense Shakspere Shakspere's sing smile song soul sound speaks Spenser spirit stanza sweet tale tears thee thou thought Translated Trinity College Twas verb Virg voice wings word writes
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Page 152 - 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...
Page 101 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side. But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all ; And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds and led the way.
Page 79 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er...
Page 102 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs, were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven, As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm ; Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, • Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 21 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.
Page 191 - He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again...
Page 151 - And with new joy and pride The little Actor cons another part; Filling from time to time his "humorous stage...
Page 135 - It ceased ; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, — A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.
Page 77 - The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, The swallow twitt'ring from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed.
Page 150 - mid work of his own hand he lies, Fretted by sallies of his mother's kisses, With light upon him from his father's eyes...