History of English Literature, Volumen3Colonial Press, 1900 |
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... wishes to make known ; we are tempted to count the measure on our fingers ; we know beforehand what poetical ornaments are to embellish it . There is a theatrical dressing , contrasts , allusions , mythological elegance , Greek or Latin ...
... wishes to make known ; we are tempted to count the measure on our fingers ; we know beforehand what poetical ornaments are to embellish it . There is a theatrical dressing , contrasts , allusions , mythological elegance , Greek or Latin ...
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... wish I could admire Pope's works of imagination , but I cannot . In vain I read the testimony of his contemporaries , and even that of the moderns , and repeat to myself that in his time he was the prince of poets ; that his epistle ...
... wish I could admire Pope's works of imagination , but I cannot . In vain I read the testimony of his contemporaries , and even that of the moderns , and repeat to myself that in his time he was the prince of poets ; that his epistle ...
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... wishes to be cured , to show her wound to her confessor , even her most shameful wound ; perhaps also because in extreme agony , as in child - birth , modesty vanishes . All this is very crude , very rude ; Pope has more wit than she ...
... wishes to be cured , to show her wound to her confessor , even her most shameful wound ; perhaps also because in extreme agony , as in child - birth , modesty vanishes . All this is very crude , very rude ; Pope has more wit than she ...
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... wish resigned ; Labour and rest , that equal periods keep ; ' Obedient slumbers that can wake and weep ; ' Desires composed , affections ever even ; Tears that delight , and sighs that waft to heav'n . Grace shines around her with ...
... wish resigned ; Labour and rest , that equal periods keep ; ' Obedient slumbers that can wake and weep ; ' Desires composed , affections ever even ; Tears that delight , and sighs that waft to heav'n . Grace shines around her with ...
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... wishes to rave and cannot ; for instance , speaking to rocks and walls , praying the absent Abelard to come , fancying him present , apostrophizing grace and virtue : " O grace serene ! O virtue heavenly fair ! Divine oblivion of low ...
... wishes to rave and cannot ; for instance , speaking to rocks and walls , praying the absent Abelard to come , fancying him present , apostrophizing grace and virtue : " O grace serene ! O virtue heavenly fair ! Divine oblivion of low ...
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Página 107 - STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me.
Página 390 - On lips that are for others ; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more.
Página 320 - Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
Página 381 - Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go ; And some thro' wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below.
Página 397 - The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world Comfort thyself: what comfort is in me?
Página 390 - TEARS, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge ; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Página 200 - Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.
Página 62 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Página 20 - Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great ; With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between ; in doubt to act or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast...
Página 397 - Then saw they how there hove a dusky barge, Dark as a funeral scarf from stem to stern, Beneath them ; and descending they were ware That all the decks were dense with stately forms, Black-stoled, black-hooded, like a dream — by these Three Queens with crowns of gold : and from them rose A cry that...