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... thou marble - hearted fiend , How much more hideous shew'st thou in a child Than the sea - monster ! - " -the passion of contempt in the one case , of terror in the other , and of indignation in the last , is perfectly satisfied . We ...
... thou marble - hearted fiend , How much more hideous shew'st thou in a child Than the sea - monster ! - " -the passion of contempt in the one case , of terror in the other , and of indignation in the last , is perfectly satisfied . We ...
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... thou se coming with Palamon Licurge himself , the grete king of Trace : Blake was his berd , and manly was his face , The cercles of his eyen in his hed They gloweden betwixen yelwe and red , And like a griffon loked he about , With ...
... thou se coming with Palamon Licurge himself , the grete king of Trace : Blake was his berd , and manly was his face , The cercles of his eyen in his hed They gloweden betwixen yelwe and red , And like a griffon loked he about , With ...
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... thou mayest loved be with equal crime . * He ceased ; and then gan all the quire of birds Their divers notes to attune unto his lay , As in approvance of his pleasing wordes . The constant pair heard all that he did say , Yet swerved ...
... thou mayest loved be with equal crime . * He ceased ; and then gan all the quire of birds Their divers notes to attune unto his lay , As in approvance of his pleasing wordes . The constant pair heard all that he did say , Yet swerved ...
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... thou ow'dst yesterday . " - And he enters at this moment , like the crested serpent , crown- ed with his wrongs and raging for revenge ! The whole de- pends upon the turn of a thought . A word , a look , blows the spark of jealousy into ...
... thou ow'dst yesterday . " - And he enters at this moment , like the crested serpent , crown- ed with his wrongs and raging for revenge ! The whole de- pends upon the turn of a thought . A word , a look , blows the spark of jealousy into ...
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... , Where joy for ever dwells ! Hail horrors , hail Infernal world ! and thou , profoundest Hell , Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings A mind not to be chang'd by place or time LECTURE III . ] ON SHAKSPEARE AND MILTON . 77.
... , Where joy for ever dwells ! Hail horrors , hail Infernal world ! and thou , profoundest Hell , Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings A mind not to be chang'd by place or time LECTURE III . ] ON SHAKSPEARE AND MILTON . 77.
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Page 120 - The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
Page 183 - But Nature, in due course of time, once more Shall here put on her beauty and her bloom. "She leaves these objects to a slow decay, That what we are, and have been, may be known ; But at the coming of the milder day These monuments shall all be overgrown.
Page 136 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Page 93 - Villiers lies — alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay at council, in a ring Of mimic statesmen and their merry King.
Page 185 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Page 140 - midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams. Or if chill blustering winds, or driving rain, Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut That from the mountain's side Views wilds and swelling floods, And hamlets brown and dim-discover'd spires, And hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Page 76 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Page 194 - Under the opening eyelids of the Morn, We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn. Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night, Oft till the star that rose at evening, bright, Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel.
Page 194 - But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Page 200 - For softness she, and sweet attractive grace ; He for God only, she for God in him...