Retrospective Review, Volumen10Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas C. and H. Baldwyn, 1824 |
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... Elmira . " " Twas where the sound of guns had mark'd a wreck , My own selected path I took , in search Of objects breathing from the eastern storm . Wild and tremendous was the nightly sky : The clouds involv'd in vast confusion , deep ...
... Elmira . " " Twas where the sound of guns had mark'd a wreck , My own selected path I took , in search Of objects breathing from the eastern storm . Wild and tremendous was the nightly sky : The clouds involv'd in vast confusion , deep ...
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... Elmira , And the captain ? How glad I am , that they Directed you to me ! ' Twas no direction I. But our own . Come quick , thou mildly - beaming Angel - form , with me - The moments stay not- And I'll lead thee into peace and safety .
... Elmira , And the captain ? How glad I am , that they Directed you to me ! ' Twas no direction I. But our own . Come quick , thou mildly - beaming Angel - form , with me - The moments stay not- And I'll lead thee into peace and safety .
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... Elmira told her gentle tale , And lit each generous ardour in my . breast . " She is taken to the stranger's home , and looks round her with surprise . Elmira . " Where is my mother's room ? Or where is she ? I want to sleep again For ...
... Elmira told her gentle tale , And lit each generous ardour in my . breast . " She is taken to the stranger's home , and looks round her with surprise . Elmira . " Where is my mother's room ? Or where is she ? I want to sleep again For ...
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... Elmira . The purple Sorrel - nectar high , or milk of cocoa nut You then shall drain ; and in its sportive shade Hearken the breeze race on its rising stem . Evening shall bear us to the thicket shade ; Or else , at large , we'll catch ...
... Elmira . The purple Sorrel - nectar high , or milk of cocoa nut You then shall drain ; and in its sportive shade Hearken the breeze race on its rising stem . Evening shall bear us to the thicket shade ; Or else , at large , we'll catch ...
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... Elmira's mother . But from her The tragic fact is hid . She broods no tempest Who conceals no guilt . No mean lust of gain Propell'd Elmira ; nor guilt - infected hopes Taught her the fear of ill , or yet , to fly To man for safety ...
... Elmira's mother . But from her The tragic fact is hid . She broods no tempest Who conceals no guilt . No mean lust of gain Propell'd Elmira ; nor guilt - infected hopes Taught her the fear of ill , or yet , to fly To man for safety ...
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Página 340 - And sends the fowls to us in care, On daily visits through the air ; He hangs in shades the orange bright, Like golden lamps in a green night...
Página 340 - He makes the figs our mouths to meet And throws the melons at our feet; But apples, plants of such a price, No tree could ever bear them twice. With cedars chosen by His hand From Lebanon He stores the land; And makes the hollow seas that roar Proclaim the ambergris on shore.
Página 55 - I will not wish unto you the ass's ears of Midas, nor to be driven by a poet's verses (as Bubonax was) to hang himself, nor to be rhymed to death, as is said to be done in Ireland; yet thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a Sonnet, and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an Epitaph.
Página 49 - ... Now, therein, of all sciences (I speak still of human, and according to the human conceit) is our poet the monarch. For he doth not only show the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way, as will entice any man to enter into it : nay he doth, as if your journey should lie through a fair vineyard, at the very first give you a .cluster of grapes, that full of that taste you may long to pass further.
Página 47 - Adam, since our erected wit maketh us know what perfection is, and yet our infected will keepeth us from reaching unto it.
Página 58 - Is constant love deem'd there but want of wit? Are beauties there as proud as here they be? Do they above love to be loved, and yet Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess ? Do they call " virtue " there — ungratefulness ? XXXIX COME, Sleep ; O Sleep ! the certain knot of peace. The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, Th...
Página 341 - That Majesty which through thy Work doth Reign Draws the Devout, deterring the Profane. And things divine thou treat'st of in such state As them preserves, and thee, inviolate. At once delight and horror on us seize, Thou...
Página 51 - ... since the Holy Scripture (wherein there is no uncleanness) hath whole parts in it poetical, and that even our Saviour Christ vouchsafed to use the flowers of it ; since all his kinds are not only in their united forms, but in their severed dissections fully commendable ; I think, and think I think rightly, the laurel crown appointed for triumphant captains, doth worthily, of all other learnings, honor the poet's triumph.
Página 334 - I'm sure I never wished them ill ; Nor do I for all this, nor will : But, if my simple prayers may yet Prevail with Heaven to forget Thy murder, I will join my tears, Rather than fail. But, O my fears ! It cannot die so. Heaven's king Keeps register of...
Página 73 - Richard, Richard, dost thou think we'll hear thee poison the court? Richard, thou art an old fellow, an old knave; thou hast written books enough to load a cart, every one as full of sedition, I might say treason, as an egg is full of meat. Hadst thou been whipped out of thy writing trade forty years ago, it had been happy.