Heroes of Literature: English Poets. A Book for Young ReadersSociety for promoting Christian knowledge, 1883 - 406 páginas |
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... eye and soothe the heart . In other words , and dropping Keats's meta- phor , the attempt is made in these pages to give brief biographies of illustrious English poets and such a sketch of their works as may attract young readers to a ...
... eye and soothe the heart . In other words , and dropping Keats's meta- phor , the attempt is made in these pages to give brief biographies of illustrious English poets and such a sketch of their works as may attract young readers to a ...
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... eyes , The roses reigning in the pride of May , Sharp hyssop good for green wounds ' remedies , Fair marigolds , and bees - alluring thyme , Sweet marjoram , and daisies decking prime . " And whatso else of virtue good or ill , Grew in ...
... eyes , The roses reigning in the pride of May , Sharp hyssop good for green wounds ' remedies , Fair marigolds , and bees - alluring thyme , Sweet marjoram , and daisies decking prime . " And whatso else of virtue good or ill , Grew in ...
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... eye ? Who rests not pleased with such happiness Well worthy he to taste of wretchedness . " " To reign in the air , " writes Mr. Lowell , in commenting on these stanzas , " was certainly Spenser's function . And yet the commentators ...
... eye ? Who rests not pleased with such happiness Well worthy he to taste of wretchedness . " " To reign in the air , " writes Mr. Lowell , in commenting on these stanzas , " was certainly Spenser's function . And yet the commentators ...
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... eyes ! Or of thy gifts , at least shade out some part . But she forbids ; with blushing words she says She builds her fame on higher - seated praise . But my heart burns ; I cannot silent be . Then , since , dear life , you fain would ...
... eyes ! Or of thy gifts , at least shade out some part . But she forbids ; with blushing words she says She builds her fame on higher - seated praise . But my heart burns ; I cannot silent be . Then , since , dear life , you fain would ...
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... eyes " overflow ; " his ' Fairy Court , " his " Owl , " his " Barons ' Wars , " his " Polyolbion , " and above all his " Agincourt , " of which he writes- " Look how , we read , the Spartans were inflamed With bold Tyrtæus ' verse ...
... eyes " overflow ; " his ' Fairy Court , " his " Owl , " his " Barons ' Wars , " his " Polyolbion , " and above all his " Agincourt , " of which he writes- " Look how , we read , the Spartans were inflamed With bold Tyrtæus ' verse ...
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Absalom and Achitophel admiration Andrew Marvell ballads beauty Ben Jonson biography Burns Byron called century character Charles Lamb charm Chaucer Coleridge Cowley Cowper critics Dean Church death delight died doubt Dryden Dunciad edition English poets essay expression eyes Faerie Queene fame fancy father faults feeling gained genius George Wither Grasmere Gray happy heart Herrick honour imagination John Jonson judgment Keats Keble labour language letters lines literary literature live Lord Lord Byron Lycidas lyric Milton mind nature never noble o'er Paradise Lost passages passion perhaps pleasure poem poet poet's poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise prose published rhyme satire Scott Shakespeare Shelley song sonnets Southey Spenser spirit stanzas Stopford Brooke story student style sweet thee Thomas Gray Thomson thou thought tion true verse volume words Wordsworth worthy writes written wrote young readers youth
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Página 318 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Página 125 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that eternal spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Página 92 - They are all gone into the world of light ! And I alone sit lingering here ; Their very memory is fair and bright, And my sad thoughts doth clear. It glows and glitters in my cloudy breast, Like stars upon some gloomy grove, Or those faint beams in which this hill is drest, After the sun's remove.
Página 190 - Peace to all such! But were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please. And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne; View him with scornful, yev with jealous eyes.
Página 370 - Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for Heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory, like a saint...
Página 254 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much: Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Página 238 - When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!
Página 142 - Grace was in all her steps. Heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.
Página 105 - A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall, and die that night; It was the plant, and flower of light. In small proportions, we just beauties see: And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Página 57 - Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.