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... tell my story . . . ' Take of Milton that Miltonic passage : - Darken'd so , yet shone Above them all the arch - angel ; but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd , and care Sat on his faded cheek .. ? add two such lines as ...
... tell my story . . . ' Take of Milton that Miltonic passage : - Darken'd so , yet shone Above them all the arch - angel ; but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd , and care Sat on his faded cheek .. ? add two such lines as ...
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Thomas Humphry Ward. is obsolete and inconvenient . But when we find Dryden telling us : ' What Virgil wrote in the vigour of his age , in plenty and at ease , I have undertaken to translate in my declining years ; struggling with wants ...
Thomas Humphry Ward. is obsolete and inconvenient . But when we find Dryden telling us : ' What Virgil wrote in the vigour of his age , in plenty and at ease , I have undertaken to translate in my declining years ; struggling with wants ...
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... to mislead ; let us look at him closely , he can bear it . Many of his admirers will tell us that we have Burns , con- vivial , genuine , delightful , here : - ' Leeze me on drink ! it gies us mair INTRODUCTION . xli.
... to mislead ; let us look at him closely , he can bear it . Many of his admirers will tell us that we have Burns , con- vivial , genuine , delightful , here : - ' Leeze me on drink ! it gies us mair INTRODUCTION . xli.
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... tell us that we have the genuine Burns , the great poet , when his strain asserts the independence , equality , dignity , of men , as in the famous song For a ' that and a ' that : - ' A prince can mak ' a belted knight , A marquis ...
... tell us that we have the genuine Burns , the great poet , when his strain asserts the independence , equality , dignity , of men , as in the famous song For a ' that and a ' that : - ' A prince can mak ' a belted knight , A marquis ...
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... telling , there had been stray notes of poetry but in Chaucer England brought forth her first poet , as modern times count poetry ; her first skilled and conscious work- man , who , coming in upon the stores of natural fact open to all ...
... telling , there had been stray notes of poetry but in Chaucer England brought forth her first poet , as modern times count poetry ; her first skilled and conscious work- man , who , coming in upon the stores of natural fact open to all ...
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Aeneid Astrophel and Stella ballads beauty behold bliss Caelica Chaucer Clerk Saunders Creusa dead dear death delight doth Edom Elizabethan England's Helicon English eyes Faery Queen fair fayre fear flowers genius Glasgerion gold grace gret grief gude hand hart hast hath heart heaven herte hire honour king Kinmont Willie lady light live Lord lovers Marlowe mind mony never night nocht nought passion Petrarch play pleasure poems poet poetical poetry praise Quhat Quhen Quhilk quoth rich Robin Robin Hood sall satire sche Scotch Shakespeare Sidney Sidney's sighs sight sing sleep song sonnets sorrow soul Spenser sweet Tamburlaine tell thair thay thee ther thine thing thou thought thow Timor Mortis conturbat true unto Venus Venus and Adonis verse virtue whan wolde words write
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Page 445 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.
Page 452 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide, Than public means, which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 444 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste...
Page 444 - When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possessed, Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope...
Page xlii - Faith, he maunna fa' that! For a' that, and a' that; Their dignities, and a' that, The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher ranks than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may,— As come it will for a' that,— That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a
Page 446 - O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem By that sweet ornament which truth doth give! The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live.
Page 343 - With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies ; How silently ; and with how wan a face ! What ! may it be, that even in heavenly place That busy Archer his sharp arrows tries...
Page 442 - Proving his beauty by succession thine! This were to be new made when thou art old, And see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold.
Page 457 - Tu-whit, tu-who - a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl...
Page xxvii - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?