The Complete Works of Walter Savage Landor, Volume 5Chapman and Hall Limited, 1927 - 334 pages |
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... Paradise Lost hath ceased to be used in prose , or even in poetry ; alterne . 4 The greater to have rule by day , The less by night , alterne . Alternate would serve more properly for the verb . There is hardly a writer of the ...
... Paradise Lost hath ceased to be used in prose , or even in poetry ; alterne . 4 The greater to have rule by day , The less by night , alterne . Alternate would serve more properly for the verb . There is hardly a writer of the ...
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... Paradise Lost . SOUTHEY . Shall we begin with it immediately ? or shall we listen a little while to the woodlark ? He seems to know what we are about ; for there is a sweetness , a variety , and a gravity in his cadences , befitting the ...
... Paradise Lost . SOUTHEY . Shall we begin with it immediately ? or shall we listen a little while to the woodlark ? He seems to know what we are about ; for there is a sweetness , a variety , and a gravity in his cadences , befitting the ...
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... Paradise Lost . Agamemnon is leader of the confederate Greeks before Troy , to avenge the cause of Menelaus : yet not only Achilles and Diomed on his side , but Hector and Sarpedon on the opposite , interest us more than the " king of ...
... Paradise Lost . Agamemnon is leader of the confederate Greeks before Troy , to avenge the cause of Menelaus : yet not only Achilles and Diomed on his side , but Hector and Sarpedon on the opposite , interest us more than the " king of ...
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... Paradise Lost . Yet it is neither so correct nor so varied as the Iliad , nor , however important the action , so interesting . The moral itself is the reason why it wearies even those who insist on the necessity of it . Founded on an ...
... Paradise Lost . Yet it is neither so correct nor so varied as the Iliad , nor , however important the action , so interesting . The moral itself is the reason why it wearies even those who insist on the necessity of it . Founded on an ...
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... Paradise Lost than in the Paradise Regained . In the seventy- third verse he tells us that the rebellious angels are As far removed from God and light of heaven As from the centre thrice to the utmost pole . Not very far for creatures ...
... Paradise Lost than in the Paradise Regained . In the seventy- third verse he tells us that the rebellious angels are As far removed from God and light of heaven As from the centre thrice to the utmost pole . Not very far for creatures ...
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Page 239 - Fast by the oracle of God, I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.
Page 323 - What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What needst thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Page 187 - But when the ice our streams did fetter, Oh, then how her old bones would shake! You would have said, if you had met her, 'Twas a hard time for Goody Blake. Her evenings then were dull and dead : Sad case it was, as you may think, For very cold to go to bed, And then for cold not sleep a wink.
Page 276 - With what to sight or smell was sweet, from thee How shall I part, and whither wander down Into a lower world, to this obscure And wild ? how shall we breathe in other air Less pure, accustom'd to immortal fruits?
Page 311 - Good, to whom all things ill Are but as slavish officers of vengeance, Would send a glistering guardian, if need were, To keep my life and honour unassailed... Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night? I did not err: there does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove.
Page 248 - In hurdled cotes amid the field secure, Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold : Or as a thief, bent to unhoard the cash Of some rich burgher, whose substantial doors, Cross-barred and bolted fast, fear no assault, In at the window climbs, or o'er the tiles : So clomb this first grand thief into God's fold; So since into his church lewd hirelings climb.
Page 263 - From man or angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge His secrets to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire; or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide...
Page 256 - Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold, In honour to the world's great Author rise...
Page 252 - Sleep on, Blest pair ! and, O ! yet happiest, if ye seek No happier state, and know to know no more...
Page 249 - His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad: She, as a veil down to the slender waist, Her unadorned golden tresses wore...