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... bless the useful light . " Pope's Homer , Iliad , viii . , 687-698 . Wordsworth's critique is as follows : - " To what a low state knowledge of the most obvious and important phenomena had sunk , is evident from the style in which ...
... bless the useful light . " Pope's Homer , Iliad , viii . , 687-698 . Wordsworth's critique is as follows : - " To what a low state knowledge of the most obvious and important phenomena had sunk , is evident from the style in which ...
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... blessed Erebus a dozen cunningly resuscitated spirits . Old cocks , bitter to the back - bone , lov- ingly alternating with young pouts , whose swelling bosoms might seduce an anchorite ! North ( rising ) . I must ring for supper ...
... blessed Erebus a dozen cunningly resuscitated spirits . Old cocks , bitter to the back - bone , lov- ingly alternating with young pouts , whose swelling bosoms might seduce an anchorite ! North ( rising ) . I must ring for supper ...
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... bless you , James - how are you all at Altrive ? Shepherd . All's well - wool up - nowte1 on the rise - harvest stacked without a shower - potatoes like stones in the Meg- gat - turnips like cabbages , and cabbages like baloons- bairns ...
... bless you , James - how are you all at Altrive ? Shepherd . All's well - wool up - nowte1 on the rise - harvest stacked without a shower - potatoes like stones in the Meg- gat - turnips like cabbages , and cabbages like baloons- bairns ...
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... bless you , James - another lobster - scarcely killed yet but sweet as kisses ... Shepherd . Kisses ! Think shame o ' yoursel . You that micht be , and perhaps are , a great - great - great - grandfather , speaking o ' kisses afore twa ...
... bless you , James - another lobster - scarcely killed yet but sweet as kisses ... Shepherd . Kisses ! Think shame o ' yoursel . You that micht be , and perhaps are , a great - great - great - grandfather , speaking o ' kisses afore twa ...
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... bless him . Tickler . James , you are the worst smoker of a cigar in Christendom . No occasion to blow like a hippopotamus . Look at me or North - you would not know we breathed . Shepherd . It's to keep mysel frae fallin asleep . I ...
... bless him . Tickler . James , you are the worst smoker of a cigar in Christendom . No occasion to blow like a hippopotamus . Look at me or North - you would not know we breathed . Shepherd . It's to keep mysel frae fallin asleep . I ...
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Page 46 - Disuse in him forgetfulness had wrought, In Latin he composed his history ; A garrulous, but a lively tale, and fraught With matter of delight, and food for thought. And if he could in Merlin's glass have seen By whom his tomes to speak our tongue were taught, The old man would have felt as pleased, I ween, As when he won the ear of that great empress- queen.
Page 18 - To what a low state knowledge of the most obvious and important phenomena had sunk, is evident from the style in which Dryden has executed a description of Night in one of his Tragedies, and Pope his translation of the celebrated moon-light scene in the Iliad.
Page 18 - Pope still retain their hold upon public estimation,— nay, there is not a passage of descriptive poetry which at this day finds so many and such ardent admirers. Strange to think of an enthusiast, as may have been the case with thousands, reciting those verses under the cope of a moon-light sky, without having his raptures in the least disturbed by a suspicion of their absurdity.
Page 195 - Rich as a rainbow with its hues of light, Pure as the moonshine of an autumn night : Weep not for Her ' Weep not for her ! — There is no cause for woe"; But rather nerve the spirit that it walk Unshrinking o'er the thorny paths below, And from earth's low defilements keep thee back : So, when a few fleet severing years have flown, She'll meet thee at heaven's gate — and lead thee on ! Weep not for Her.