The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes, Volume 14Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl Clarke Company, limited, 1899 - Anthologies |
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... thou art gone , Now thou art gone and never must return ! Thee , Shepherd , thee the woods and desert caves , With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown , And all their echoes , mourn . The willows , and the hazel copses green ...
... thou art gone , Now thou art gone and never must return ! Thee , Shepherd , thee the woods and desert caves , With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown , And all their echoes , mourn . The willows , and the hazel copses green ...
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... thou honored flood , Smooth - sliding Mincius , crowned with vocal reeds , That strain I heard was of a higher mood . But now my oat proceeds , And listens to the Herald of the Sea , That came in Neptune's plea . He asked the waves ...
... thou honored flood , Smooth - sliding Mincius , crowned with vocal reeds , That strain I heard was of a higher mood . But now my oat proceeds , And listens to the Herald of the Sea , That came in Neptune's plea . He asked the waves ...
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... thou perhaps under the whelming tide Visit'st the bottom of the monstrous world ; Or whether thou , to our moist vows denied , Sleep'st by the fable of Bellerus old , Where the great Vision of the guarded mount Looks toward Namancos and ...
... thou perhaps under the whelming tide Visit'st the bottom of the monstrous world ; Or whether thou , to our moist vows denied , Sleep'st by the fable of Bellerus old , Where the great Vision of the guarded mount Looks toward Namancos and ...
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... thou taught'st Cambridge and King Edward Greek . ON THE SAME . I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty , When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos , asses , apes , and ...
... thou taught'st Cambridge and King Edward Greek . ON THE SAME . I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty , When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos , asses , apes , and ...
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... ( thou know'st ) do sell our hay , There is a house with stairs ; And there did I see coming down Such folk as are not in our town , Forty at least , in pairs . Amongst the rest , one pest'lent fine ( His beard no bigger though than thine ) ...
... ( thou know'st ) do sell our hay , There is a house with stairs ; And there did I see coming down Such folk as are not in our town , Forty at least , in pairs . Amongst the rest , one pest'lent fine ( His beard no bigger though than thine ) ...
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Page 364 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, " this the seat That we must change for Heaven? — this mournful gloom For that celestial light ? Be...
Page 37 - WHY so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Page 56 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth: and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Page 327 - The wrong, than others the right way ; Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to : Still so perverse and opposite, As if they worshipped God for spite.
Page 365 - High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings Barbaric pearl and gold...
Page 56 - For Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 327 - Twas Presbyterian true blue, For he was of that stubborn crew Of Errant Saints, whom all men grant To be the true Church Militant...
Page 56 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian.
Page 275 - Time which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments. In vain we hope to be known by open and visible conservatories, when to be unknown was the means of their continuation, and obscurity their protection.
Page 197 - Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more.