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... humanity was younger and more joyous - hearted than it now is . " The first great poet of any country has this advantage , that he converses with Nature directly , without an interpreter , and his utterances are not so much the echo of ...
... humanity was younger and more joyous - hearted than it now is . " The first great poet of any country has this advantage , that he converses with Nature directly , without an interpreter , and his utterances are not so much the echo of ...
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... human soul- its woes , its anguish , and its strength of suffering and of heroism . In this , the harmonious union of true tragic and comic powers , Chaucer and Shakespeare stand alone in our literature ; it places them above all the ...
... human soul- its woes , its anguish , and its strength of suffering and of heroism . In this , the harmonious union of true tragic and comic powers , Chaucer and Shakespeare stand alone in our literature ; it places them above all the ...
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... human and according to human conceit ― is our poet the monarch . For he doth not only show the way , but giveth so sweet a prospect into the as will entice any man to enter into it . Nay , he doth , as if your journey should lie through ...
... human and according to human conceit ― is our poet the monarch . For he doth not only show the way , but giveth so sweet a prospect into the as will entice any man to enter into it . Nay , he doth , as if your journey should lie through ...
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... human history ; Henry VIII . will still be branded as the bad hus- band , the pseudo - Protestant ; Napoleon will still be the hero of Marengo and Austerlitz , and , with due deference to Miss Bacon and Judge Holmes , every one will ...
... human history ; Henry VIII . will still be branded as the bad hus- band , the pseudo - Protestant ; Napoleon will still be the hero of Marengo and Austerlitz , and , with due deference to Miss Bacon and Judge Holmes , every one will ...
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... human beings added to mankind . We refer to them as illustrations of human nature , as ex- amples of human conduct , just as we should to real beings . It is not so with the creations of any other writer . Take the characters of Scott ...
... human beings added to mankind . We refer to them as illustrations of human nature , as ex- amples of human conduct , just as we should to real beings . It is not so with the creations of any other writer . Take the characters of Scott ...
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Addison admired Ballymahon beautiful better Burns called Canterbury Tales charming Chaucer child Cowper dear death delight Dryden England English English language eyes Faerie Queene fame father friends gave genius GEOFFREY CHAUCER give Goldsmith grace Griselda hand happy heart heaven honor Italy John Dryden Johnson king knew lady language laughed learned Lichfield literary live London look Lord Lycidas Milton mind moral mother nature never night o'er once Paradise Lost Petrarch play pleasant poem poet poetry poor Pope praise Puritan Queen rhyme SAMUEL JOHNSON satire says seemed Shakespeare sing smile song soon soul Spenser spent story style sweet Swift Tabard tears tell tender thee thing thou thought tion told took Twickenham verse Virgil walk Westminster Abbey wife woman words wretched writing wrote young
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Page 275 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days: There, ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere...
Page 205 - Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour.
Page 72 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Page 222 - There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school ; A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew...
Page 74 - YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude ; And, with forced fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew, Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
Page 222 - Yet he was kind; or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault; The village all declared how much he knew; 'Twas certain he could write, and cipher too; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And even the story ran that he could gauge...
Page 275 - The priest-like father reads the sacred page, How Abram was the friend of God on high ; Or, Moses bade eternal warfare wage With Amalek's ungracious progeny ; Or, how the royal bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire ; Or, Job's pathetic plaint and wailing cry ; Or, rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire ; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre.
Page 248 - With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me; Voice only fails, else how distinct they say, ' Grieve not, my child, chase all thy fears away!
Page 278 - Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er! Such fate to suffering worth is...
Page 241 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs — and God has given my share — I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose...