The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell: With a Memoir of His Life and an Essay on His Genius and WritingsAppleton & Company, 1859 - 329 pages |
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Page ix
... never could please himself with what he did . The last remark of Dr. Anderson's roused the full swing of his genius within him , and he returned the next day to the delighted doctor , with that fine comparison between the beauty of ...
... never could please himself with what he did . The last remark of Dr. Anderson's roused the full swing of his genius within him , and he returned the next day to the delighted doctor , with that fine comparison between the beauty of ...
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... never had the good fortune to fall in with the first edition of the " Pleasures of Hope , " but learn from the magazines of the day , that several smaller poems , " The Wounded Hussar , " " The Harper , " & c . , were appended to it ...
... never had the good fortune to fall in with the first edition of the " Pleasures of Hope , " but learn from the magazines of the day , that several smaller poems , " The Wounded Hussar , " " The Harper , " & c . , were appended to it ...
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... never heard . When a poet is in difficulties , he is sure , said William Gifford , to get married . This was Campbell's case , for I find in the Scotch papers , and among the marriages of the year 1803 , the following entry : - " 11th ...
... never heard . When a poet is in difficulties , he is sure , said William Gifford , to get married . This was Campbell's case , for I find in the Scotch papers , and among the marriages of the year 1803 , the following entry : - " 11th ...
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... never saw a man ( and of him I have seen very little ) so sensitive ; what a happy temperament ! I am sorry for it ; what can he fear from criticism ? " His next great work was the " Specimens of the British Poets , " in seven octavo ...
... never saw a man ( and of him I have seen very little ) so sensitive ; what a happy temperament ! I am sorry for it ; what can he fear from criticism ? " His next great work was the " Specimens of the British Poets , " in seven octavo ...
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... never change - it is true at all times ; but facts , received as such , for want of bet- ter information , may be set aside by any dull fact- monger who will take the pains to examine a par- ish register , a bookseller's catalogue , or ...
... never change - it is true at all times ; but facts , received as such , for want of bet- ter information , may be set aside by any dull fact- monger who will take the pains to examine a par- ish register , a bookseller's catalogue , or ...
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Page 67 - Her home is on the deep. With thunders from her native oak She quells the floods below — As they roar on the shore, When the stormy winds do blow ; When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
Page 67 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave: Where Blake and mighty Nelson fell Your manly hearts shall glow, As ye sweep through the deep, While the stormy winds do blow; While the battle rages loud and long And the stormy winds do blow.
Page 82 - Twas autumn, and sunshine arose on the way To the home of my fathers, that welcomed me back. I flew to the pleasant fields traversed so oft In life's morning march, when my bosom was young ; I heard my own mountain-goats bleating aloft, And knew the sweet strain that the corn-reapers sung.
Page 69 - Tis morn, but scarce yon level sun Can pierce the war-clouds, rolling dun, Where furious Frank and fiery Hun Shout in their sulphurous canopy. The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory, or the grave ! Wave, Munich ! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry. Few, few shall part where many meet ! The snow shall be their winding-sheet ; And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre.
Page 68 - ... untrodden snow; and dark as winter was the flow of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, when the drum beat at dead of night commanding fires of death to light the darkness of her scenery. By torch and trumpet fast arrayed each horseman drew his battle-blade, and furious every charger neigh'd to join the dreadful revelry.
Page 65 - O'er the deadly space between. " Hearts of oak ! " our captains cried, when each gun From its adamantine lips Spread a death-shade round the ships, Like the hurricane eclipse Of the sun.
Page 66 - By the festal cities' blaze, Whilst the wine-cup shines in light ; And yet amidst that joy and uproar Let us think of them that sleep, Full many a fathom deep, By thy wild and stormy steep, Elsinore.
Page 63 - Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. I tell thee, Culloden's dread echoes shall ring With the bloodhounds that bark for thy fugitive king. Lo ! anointed by Heaven with the vials of wrath, Behold where he flies on his desolate path...
Page vii - Spans with bright arch the glittering hills below. Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, "Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky ? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ?— 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
Page 61 - Glenullin ! whose bride shall await, Like a love-lighted watchfire, all night at the gate. A steed comes at morning ; no rider is there ; But its bridle is- red with the sign of despair. Weep Albin ! to death and captivity led ! Oh weep ! but thy tears cannot number the dead : For a merciless sword on Culloden shall wave, Culloden ! that reeks with the blood of the brave.