GrayHarper & brothers, 1901 - 223 páginas |
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Página ix - Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race, Disporting on thy margent green, The paths of pleasure trace ; Who foremost now delights to cleave, With pliant arm, thy glassy wave ; The captive linnet which enthral ? What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball f
Página 114 - jEgean deep, Fields, that cool Ilissus laves, Or where Mseander's amber waves In lingering labyrinths creep, How do your tuneful echoes languish, Mute but to the voice of anguish ! Where each old poetic mountain Inspiration breathed around ; Every shade and hallowed fountain Murmured deep a solemn sound." But the Muses, "in Greece's evil hour,
Página 73 - beard, The velvet of her paws, Her coat that with the tortoise vies. Her ears of jet, and emerald eyes, She saw ; and purred applause. "Still had she gaz'd ; but midst the tide Two beauteous forms were seen to glide, The Genii of the stream ; Their scaly armour's Tyrian
Página 115 - Thro' the azure deep of air : Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms as glitter in the Muse's ray, With orient hues, unborrowed of the sun : Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the Good how far !—but far above the Great.
Página 74 - to the view Betray'da golden gleam. "The hapless nymph with wonder saw: A whisker first, and then a claw, With many an ardent wish. She stretch'd, in vain, to reach the prize. What female heart can gold despise ? What Cat's averse to fish
Página 74 - Eight times emerging from the flood, She mewed to ev'ry wat'ry god Some speedy aid to send. No dolphin came, no Nereid stirr'd, No cruel Tom nor Harry heard— What favourite has a friend?
Página 181 - the last gleam of sunshine fading away on the hill-tops, the deep serene of the waters, and the long shadows of the mountains thrown across them, till they nearly touched the hithermost shore. At distance heard the murmur of many water-falls, not audible in the daytime. Wished for the Moon, but she was dark to
Página 205 - Though he seemed to value others chiefly according to the progress they had made in knowledge, yet he could not bear to be considered himself merely as a man of letters ; and though without birth, or fortune, or station, his desire was to be looked upon as a private gentleman, who read for his amusement.
Página 73 - Twas on a lofty vase's side Where China's gayest art had dyed The azure flowers that blow, The pensive Selima reclined, Demurest of the tabby kind, Gaz'd on the lake below. " Her conscious tail her joy declar'd : The fair, round face, the
Página 170 - E'en from the grave thou shalt have power to charm. Bid them be chaste, be innocent like thee ; Bid them in duty's sphere as meekly move ; And if so fair, from vanity as free, As firm in friendship, and as fond in love, Tell them, though 'tis an awful thing to die (