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... wind ! The feeling of cheerless desolation , of the loss of the pith and sap of existence , of the annihilation of the substance , and the clinging to the shadow of all things as in a mock embrace , is here perfect . In this way , the ...
... wind ! The feeling of cheerless desolation , of the loss of the pith and sap of existence , of the annihilation of the substance , and the clinging to the shadow of all things as in a mock embrace , is here perfect . In this way , the ...
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... wind as clere , And eke as loude , as doth the chapell belle , Ther as this lord was keper of the celle . The reule of Seint Maure and of Seint Beneit , Because that it was olde and somdele streit , This ilke monk lette olde thinges ...
... wind as clere , And eke as loude , as doth the chapell belle , Ther as this lord was keper of the celle . The reule of Seint Maure and of Seint Beneit , Because that it was olde and somdele streit , This ilke monk lette olde thinges ...
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... wind , much like the sound Of swarming bees , did cast him in a swound , No other noise , nor people's troublous cries , That still are wont t ' annoy the walled town , Might there be heard ; but careless quiet lies Wrapt in eternal ...
... wind , much like the sound Of swarming bees , did cast him in a swound , No other noise , nor people's troublous cries , That still are wont t ' annoy the walled town , Might there be heard ; but careless quiet lies Wrapt in eternal ...
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... wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all . " The remainder of the passage has all that voluptuous pathos , and languid brilliancy of fancy , in which this writer excelled : " The whiles some one did chaunt this ...
... wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all . " The remainder of the passage has all that voluptuous pathos , and languid brilliancy of fancy , in which this writer excelled : " The whiles some one did chaunt this ...
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... windy fan did bear That in the idle air he mov'd still here and there . And him beside march'd amorous Desire , Who seem'd of riper years than the other swain , Yet was that other swain this elder's sire , And gave him being , common to ...
... windy fan did bear That in the idle air he mov'd still here and there . And him beside march'd amorous Desire , Who seem'd of riper years than the other swain , Yet was that other swain this elder's sire , And gave him being , common to ...
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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...