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Page 103
... fire ; Where unobserved he finds a joy To list its plaintive tone , And silently his thoughts employ On sorrows all his own . At once it comes , by memory's power , The loved habitual theme , Reserved for twilight's darkling hour , A ...
... fire ; Where unobserved he finds a joy To list its plaintive tone , And silently his thoughts employ On sorrows all his own . At once it comes , by memory's power , The loved habitual theme , Reserved for twilight's darkling hour , A ...
Page 113
... fire , The watch - word of her vengeful ire , When hostile feet shall dare to tread The ashes of her mighty dead . Such meed is thine , immortal maid ! To whom my contrite vows are paid . " But here is a sweet and pleasing effusion . It ...
... fire , The watch - word of her vengeful ire , When hostile feet shall dare to tread The ashes of her mighty dead . Such meed is thine , immortal maid ! To whom my contrite vows are paid . " But here is a sweet and pleasing effusion . It ...
Page 121
... fire , round which the most loathsome and detestable of beings were convened . The changes of his sensa- tions told him when their cruelty damped the flame , to waste him lingeringly ; and , in his sharp and shooting pains , he thought ...
... fire , round which the most loathsome and detestable of beings were convened . The changes of his sensa- tions told him when their cruelty damped the flame , to waste him lingeringly ; and , in his sharp and shooting pains , he thought ...
Page 129
... fire to the gates , which were plated with silver , and the flames communicated to the porticoes and galleries ; but the besieged within an- swered to the shouts of the Romans with execrations , and made no attempt to extinguish the ...
... fire to the gates , which were plated with silver , and the flames communicated to the porticoes and galleries ; but the besieged within an- swered to the shouts of the Romans with execrations , and made no attempt to extinguish the ...
Page 130
... fire furling up for ever the veil of mystery , shewed that the God was not there ! The Jews shrieked with horror , and a wail and lamentation spread throughout the city ; even the Romans paused in consternation , but it was only to ...
... fire furling up for ever the veil of mystery , shewed that the God was not there ! The Jews shrieked with horror , and a wail and lamentation spread throughout the city ; even the Romans paused in consternation , but it was only to ...
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Page 83 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable, That dogs bark at me as I halt by them ; — VOL.
Page 314 - To-day, my lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood...
Page 144 - Going to the Wars 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. 1 Imprisoned or caged. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more.
Page 387 - So cruel prison how could betide, alas, As proud Windsor? where I in lust and joy, With a King's son, my childish years did pass, In greater feast than Priam's sons of Troy.
Page 391 - He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow ; He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look down on the hate of those below. Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread, Round him are icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests on his naked* head. And thus reward the toils which to those summits led.
Page 388 - Wherewith, alas ! reviveth in my breast The sweet accord, such sleeps as yet delight ; The pleasant dreams, the quiet bed of rest ; The secret thoughts, imparted with such trust ; The wanton talk, the divers change of play ; The friendship sworn, each promise kept so just, Wherewith we past the winter night away.
Page 16 - A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants, flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity in an unknown and hostile land.
Page 83 - Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity: And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Page 148 - ASK me no more whither do stray The golden atoms of the day, For in pure love heaven did prepare Those powders to enrich your hair. Ask me no more...
Page 392 - ON Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming ! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance bring Of what thy gentle people did befall ; Yet thou wert once the loveliest land of all That see the Atlantic wave their morn restore. Sweet land ! may I thy lost delights recall, And paint thy Gertrude in her bowers of yore, Whose beauty was the love of Pennsylvania's shore...