Poetical Works: Reprinted from the Chandos Poets. With Memoir, Explanatory Notes, &cWorthington Company, 1886 |
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... eyes , whose natural weakness was attended with frequent pains in the head ; but as all these disadvantages could not repress my ardour for learning , my father took care to have me instructed by various preceptors , both at home and at ...
... eyes , whose natural weakness was attended with frequent pains in the head ; but as all these disadvantages could not repress my ardour for learning , my father took care to have me instructed by various preceptors , both at home and at ...
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... eyes were dark grey , his complexion fair and delicate . In after - times , when time and sorrow were creeping on him , he still looked ten years younger than he was ; and his eyes did not betray by their appearance the sad secret of ...
... eyes were dark grey , his complexion fair and delicate . In after - times , when time and sorrow were creeping on him , he still looked ten years younger than he was ; and his eyes did not betray by their appearance the sad secret of ...
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... eyes lighted on a woman , beautiful , with the rare and intellectual loveliness of a Grecian muse : she was Leonora Baroni - the first singer in the world . Her mother , as beautiful and nearly as fine a singer as herself , sat near her ...
... eyes lighted on a woman , beautiful , with the rare and intellectual loveliness of a Grecian muse : she was Leonora Baroni - the first singer in the world . Her mother , as beautiful and nearly as fine a singer as herself , sat near her ...
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... in prose ) against his Sovereign and the National Church , we must pause for a moment to consider the age in which he had been born and brought up . When his infant eyes unclosed in Bread Street , James MEMOIR OF MILTON . x1.
... in prose ) against his Sovereign and the National Church , we must pause for a moment to consider the age in which he had been born and brought up . When his infant eyes unclosed in Bread Street , James MEMOIR OF MILTON . x1.
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... eyes unclosed in Bread Street , James I. had been five years King of Britain . The glorious reign of Elizabeth , with its host of great Statesmen , Warriors , Poets , and Discoverers , was succeeded by that of a contemptible and ...
... eyes unclosed in Bread Street , James I. had been five years King of Britain . The glorious reign of Elizabeth , with its host of great Statesmen , Warriors , Poets , and Discoverers , was succeeded by that of a contemptible and ...
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Page 128 - Eternal coeternal beam, May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate ! Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page 71 - 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. "But not the praise...
Page 68 - I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
Page 11 - The shepherds on the lawn, Or ere the point of dawn, Sat simply chatting in a rustic row; Full little thought they then That the mighty Pan Was kindly come to live with them below; Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, Was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.
Page 35 - As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew ; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Page 32 - Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet. And hears the Muses in a ring Aye round about Jove's altar sing; And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his pleasure; But first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon...
Page 82 - Whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme Above His equals. Farewell happy fields, 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 changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.
Page 488 - CYRIACK, this three years day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot ; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bear up and steer Right onward. What supports me, dost thou ask ? The conscience, Friend, to have lost them overplied In liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which...
Page 71 - Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies, 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 xix - I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man, as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image : but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a...