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... drop- ped his defign ; especially after he had heard , that it was already in the hands of a person well qualified to do it justice , both by his taste , and his researches into antiquity . PREFACE . IN the eleventh century , Sigurd , Earl.
... drop- ped his defign ; especially after he had heard , that it was already in the hands of a person well qualified to do it justice , both by his taste , and his researches into antiquity . PREFACE . IN the eleventh century , Sigurd , Earl.
Page 109
... Earl and all his forces were cut to pieces , and Sig- tryg was in danger of a total defeat ; but the enemy had a greater lofs , by the death of Brian , their King , who fell in the action . On Christmas - day , ( the day of the battle ...
... Earl and all his forces were cut to pieces , and Sig- tryg was in danger of a total defeat ; but the enemy had a greater lofs , by the death of Brian , their King , who fell in the action . On Christmas - day , ( the day of the battle ...
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... ( Weave the crimson web of war . ) They , whom once the defert - beach Pent within its bleak domain , Soon their ample fway fhall ftretch O'er the plenty of the plain . H 4 113 Low Low the dauntlefs Earl is laid , Gor'd with many.
... ( Weave the crimson web of war . ) They , whom once the defert - beach Pent within its bleak domain , Soon their ample fway fhall ftretch O'er the plenty of the plain . H 4 113 Low Low the dauntlefs Earl is laid , Gor'd with many.
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Thomas Gray. Low the dauntlefs Earl is laid , Gor'd with many a gaping wound : Fate demands a nobler head : Soon a King shall bite the ground . Long his loss shall Eirin weep , Ne'er again his likeness fee ; Long her strains in forrow ...
Thomas Gray. Low the dauntlefs Earl is laid , Gor'd with many a gaping wound : Fate demands a nobler head : Soon a King shall bite the ground . Long his loss shall Eirin weep , Ne'er again his likeness fee ; Long her strains in forrow ...
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... Earl of Surry and Sir Thomas Wyatt had travelled in Italy , and formed their tafte there . Spenfer imitated the Italian writers , and Milton improved on them ; but this school expired soon after the Restoration , and a new one arofe on ...
... Earl of Surry and Sir Thomas Wyatt had travelled in Italy , and formed their tafte there . Spenfer imitated the Italian writers , and Milton improved on them ; but this school expired soon after the Restoration , and a new one arofe on ...
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Page 156 - customed hill, Along the heath and near his favourite tree ; Another came ; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he : The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 56 - A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Page 100 - Fair laughs the Morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes: Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm: Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That hush'd in grim repose expects his evening prey.
Page 45 - To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man: And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began.
Page 91 - Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate. Beneath the Good how far— but far above the Great.
Page 96 - To arms ! cried Mortimer, and couch'd his quiv'ring lance.. I. 2 On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the Poet stood ; (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Stream'd, like a meteor, to the troubled air) And with a Master's hand, and Prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.
Page 156 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 149 - THE CURFEW tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Page 60 - A grisly troop are seen, The painful family of Death, More hideous than their Queen: This racks the joints, this fires the veins, That every labouring sinew strains, Those in the deeper vitals rage: Lo!
Page 60 - Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet, ah ! why should they know their fate. Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise! No more; — where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.