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... verse and his pic- turesque personality , nor Eleanor Staunton , who snubs him for his good , but is really his ... verses given to Tregarva in " Yeast " sum up his diagnosis of the social disease with admirable vigour . Many scenes in ...
... verse and his pic- turesque personality , nor Eleanor Staunton , who snubs him for his good , but is really his ... verses given to Tregarva in " Yeast " sum up his diagnosis of the social disease with admirable vigour . Many scenes in ...
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... verse . The author of " Andro- meda " repeated the error of ignoring such quantities as do obtain in our prosody , and relying upon accent alone ; but his fine ear and command of words kept him musical , interfluent , swift . STEDMAN ...
... verse . The author of " Andro- meda " repeated the error of ignoring such quantities as do obtain in our prosody , and relying upon accent alone ; but his fine ear and command of words kept him musical , interfluent , swift . STEDMAN ...
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... verse , however clever , ed- ucated , melodious , ingenious , amiable , and refined . He had the real spark of fire , the true note ; though the spark might seldom break into flame , and the note was not al- ways clear . Never let us ...
... verse , however clever , ed- ucated , melodious , ingenious , amiable , and refined . He had the real spark of fire , the true note ; though the spark might seldom break into flame , and the note was not al- ways clear . Never let us ...
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... verse . His thoughts come flowing from his heart and mind , and they find fit words in which to clothe them- selves . And this is what we understand to be meant by the " Vision and the Faculty Divine . " Though Sprague may not de- serve ...
... verse . His thoughts come flowing from his heart and mind , and they find fit words in which to clothe them- selves . And this is what we understand to be meant by the " Vision and the Faculty Divine . " Though Sprague may not de- serve ...
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... verse , was born at Plymouth and educated at a private school . Devoting himself to journalism and authorship , he became connected with various news- papers , especially the London Globe . He was well - known as a writer of " vers de ...
... verse , was born at Plymouth and educated at a private school . Devoting himself to journalism and authorship , he became connected with various news- papers , especially the London Globe . He was well - known as a writer of " vers de ...
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Page 204 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan; Where palsy shakes a few sad, last gray hairs, Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies; Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden-eyed despairs, Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes, Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow.
Page 5 - POL. Look, whether he has not turned his colour and has tears in's eyes. Prithee, no more. HAM. 'Tis well; I'll have thee speak out the rest of this soon. — Good my lord, will you see the players well bestowed? Do you hear, let them be well used, for they are the abstracts and brief chronicles of the time; after your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.
Page 476 - My own dim life should teach me this, That life shall live for evermore, Else earth is darkness at the core, And dust and ashes all that is...
Page 407 - And thou, too, whosoe'er thou art, That readest this brief psalm, As one by one thy hopes depart Be resolute and calm. O fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.
Page 416 - Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except a little ancient geography and history. The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank.
Page 552 - HE stood upon the world's broad threshold ; wide The din of battle and of slaughter rose ; He saw God stand upon the weaker side, That sank in seeming loss before its foes : Many there were who made great haste and sold Unto the cunning enemy their swords, He scorned their gifts of fame, and power, and gold, And, underneath their soft and flowery words, Heard the cold serpent hiss ; therefore he went And humbly joined him to the weaker part, Fanatic named, and fool, yet well content So he could be...
Page 121 - tis kindled o' nights With a semblance of flame by the chill Northern Lights. He may rank (Griswold says so) first bard of your nation, (There's no doubt that he stands in supreme ice-olation,) Your topmost Parnassus he may set his heel on, But no warm applauses come, peal following peal on...
Page 162 - ' The dominant charm of all these sonnets is the pervading presence of the writer's personality, never obtruded but always impalpably diffused. The light of a devout, gentle, and kindly spirit, a delicate and graceful fancy, a keen intelligence irradiates these thoughts.
Page 266 - I did not, however, deem myself a competent judge of Carlyle. I felt that he was a poet and that I was not ; that he was a man of intuition, which I was not ; and that as such, he not only saw many things long before me, which I could only when they were pointed out...
Page 161 - MIDNIGHT — in no midsummer tune The breakers lash the shores : The cuckoo of a joyless June Is calling out of doors : And thou hast vanish'd from thine own To that which looks like rest, True brother, only to be known By those who love thee best. Midnight — and joyless June gone by, And from the deluged park The cuckoo of a worse July Is calling thro...