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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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... your foes confound , 75 80 888 85 30 95 100 105 " And make your joyes redound " Vpon your Brydale day , which is not long . " Sweet Themmes ! runne softlie , till I end my Song . So ended she and all the rest around To her B 2 SPENSER . 3.
... your foes confound , 75 80 888 85 30 95 100 105 " And make your joyes redound " Vpon your Brydale day , which is not long . " Sweet Themmes ! runne softlie , till I end my Song . So ended she and all the rest around To her B 2 SPENSER . 3.
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... sweet ; 25 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 HYMN . I. It was the winter wilde ...
... sweet ; 25 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 HYMN . I. It was the winter wilde ...
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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...