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... sweet Harp of David drove the demon out of Saul , have been known to yield to the soothing influence of Poetry . The earliest accomplishment of the rudest and wildest stages of society , it is also the crowning grace of the most ...
... sweet Harp of David drove the demon out of Saul , have been known to yield to the soothing influence of Poetry . The earliest accomplishment of the rudest and wildest stages of society , it is also the crowning grace of the most ...
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... sweet versification of the Second , notwithstanding his wretched ribald attempts at wit and humour , his imperfect delineation of character , and the wicked sin of bombast , of which he is always guilty when he wishes to be sublime ...
... sweet versification of the Second , notwithstanding his wretched ribald attempts at wit and humour , his imperfect delineation of character , and the wicked sin of bombast , of which he is always guilty when he wishes to be sublime ...
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... sweet Songs of Carew and Herrick ? The following is a once much admired Song , by Lord Landsdowne , who was Comptroller of the Household to Queen Anne : - : - " Thoughtful nights , and restless waking , Oh ! the pains that we endure ...
... sweet Songs of Carew and Herrick ? The following is a once much admired Song , by Lord Landsdowne , who was Comptroller of the Household to Queen Anne : - : - " Thoughtful nights , and restless waking , Oh ! the pains that we endure ...
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... sweet , sound sleep their weary limbs did rest ; The beasts were still , the little birds that sing , Now sweetly slept beside their mother's breast , The old and all were shrouded in their nest ; The waters calm , the cruel seas , did ...
... sweet , sound sleep their weary limbs did rest ; The beasts were still , the little birds that sing , Now sweetly slept beside their mother's breast , The old and all were shrouded in their nest ; The waters calm , the cruel seas , did ...
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... sweet attractive grace ; He for God only , she for God in him . His fair large front , and eye sublime , declared Absolute rule ; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering , but not beneath his shoulders ...
... sweet attractive grace ; He for God only , she for God in him . His fair large front , and eye sublime , declared Absolute rule ; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering , but not beneath his shoulders ...
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Page 93 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Page 204 - The dew shall weep thy fall to-night; For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
Page 118 - Sheds itself through the face, As alone there triumphs to the life All the gain, all the good, of the elements
Page 498 - And immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne: and he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
Page 370 - With those just spirits that wear victorious palms. Hymns devout and holy psalms Singing everlastingly: That we on earth with undiscording voice May rightly answer that melodious noise; As once we did. till...
Page 141 - And Dryden, in immortal strain, Had raised the Table Round again, But that a ribald King and Court Bade him toil on, to make them sport ; Demanded for their niggard pay, Fit for their souls, a looser lay, Licentious satire, song, and play ; The world defrauded of the high design, Profaned the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
Page 196 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style...
Page xiv - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And help'd to plant the wound that laid thee low : So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impell'd the steel ; While the same plumage that had warm'd his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
Page 4 - Whose honours with increase of ages grow, As streams roll down, enlarging as they flow; Nations unborn your mighty names shall sound, And worlds applaud that must not yet be found!
Page 198 - And wilt thou leave me thus ? Say nay ! say nay ! And wilt thou leave me thus ? That hath loved thee so long In wealth and woe among ; And is thy heart so strong As for to leave me thus ? Say nay ! say nay...