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... tale stirs in us as in those " ladies gay " that heard it , or are fancied to hear it , long years ago ; with the filial affection which omens and storms cannot daunt from its pious purpose - a most fair sight , and one , thank Heaven ...
... tale stirs in us as in those " ladies gay " that heard it , or are fancied to hear it , long years ago ; with the filial affection which omens and storms cannot daunt from its pious purpose - a most fair sight , and one , thank Heaven ...
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... tale likeness ? At first sight the poem may seem to carry us back into distant ages . The first stanza pictures us a minstrel in some old hall , singing and playing after the manner of his craft . " Feats of arms " were the great ...
... tale likeness ? At first sight the poem may seem to carry us back into distant ages . The first stanza pictures us a minstrel in some old hall , singing and playing after the manner of his craft . " Feats of arms " were the great ...
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... tale Under the hawthorn in the dale . Co 65 Streit mine eye hath caught new pleasures . Whilst the lantskip round it measures , 70 Russet lawns and fallows gray , Where the nibling flocks do stray , Mountains on whose barren brest The ...
... tale Under the hawthorn in the dale . Co 65 Streit mine eye hath caught new pleasures . Whilst the lantskip round it measures , 70 Russet lawns and fallows gray , Where the nibling flocks do stray , Mountains on whose barren brest The ...
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... tales to bed they creep , By whispering windes soon lull'd asleep . Towred cities please us then , And the busie humm of men , Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds of Peace high triumphs hold , With store of ladies whose ...
... tales to bed they creep , By whispering windes soon lull'd asleep . Towred cities please us then , And the busie humm of men , Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds of Peace high triumphs hold , With store of ladies whose ...
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... tale of Troy divine , Or what ( though rare ) of later age Ennobled hath the buskind stage . But , O sad Virgin , that thy power Might raise Musæus from his bower , Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the string ...
... tale of Troy divine , Or what ( though rare ) of later age Ennobled hath the buskind stage . But , O sad Virgin , that thy power Might raise Musæus from his bower , Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the string ...
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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...