Tales, Songs and Sonnets

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Longman, Green, Longman and Green, 1866 - 184 pages
 

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Page 159 - He that hath found some fledged bird's nest may know At first sight if the bird be flown; But what fair well or grove he sings in now, That is to him unknown.
Page 130 - So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Page 20 - ... dominions ; bring him hither, and let me embrace " him :" the assembly was in an universal murmur of applause ; and he ordered the child to be conducted to the Hindoo palace, and prepared for installation.* He was of the same name as his predecessor, viz.
Page 150 - ... Northampton 1872, in which Clare was mentioned. For Thomas Inskip, see No. 66. John Clare A life of dreams ! the first, and the most real, Began in boyhood, when his spirit went, Mate of birds, trees, and flowers, glad and content; 'Mong sylvan haunts, embracing the ideal, Which is the poet's workshop, who would see all God gives of true and good and lovely, blent In nature and man's heart; then fame was sent, The dream of dreams ! the towering hope to be all Man can be of supreme in worlds of...
Page 22 - ... of the captain, and sailed with him to Lisbon. Careless of life, and probably wishing to shorten it, he entered into the service of the king of Portugal, and distinguished himself in a military capacity, at some of the distant possessions of that monarch, in the Brazils. Receiving, after many years, ample rewards, and an honourable dismission, he resolved in the spirit of the times, and forgetting that for sinners like him a Saviour had died, he resolved to expiate the crime of...
Page 129 - Some men, Janet, will say I can be forgiven — some will say I cannot. I have thought much There is a God, and He knows.
Page 79 - ... launched them on the flowing river. Pale and unreal in the moonlight, the river floated them away. The lights were bright within doors when he entered, and the faces on which they shone, his own face not excepted, were soon quiedy cheerful.
Page 43 - It is common however for persons, overwhelmed with this sort of disappointment, to console themselves with an appeal to posterity, and to observe that future generations, when the venom of party...

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