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... character just as to - day stories that are in keeping with Lincoln's personality are often erroneously ascribed to Lincoln , although the tales were , in fact , famous long before his time . Sometimes ballads that were originally ...
... character just as to - day stories that are in keeping with Lincoln's personality are often erroneously ascribed to Lincoln , although the tales were , in fact , famous long before his time . Sometimes ballads that were originally ...
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... character was so peculiar that even after he was made professor of modern history in 1768 , he was still subjected to various petty annoyances by the rude and thoughtless under- graduates . During his mother's life , Gray spent most of ...
... character was so peculiar that even after he was made professor of modern history in 1768 , he was still subjected to various petty annoyances by the rude and thoughtless under- graduates . During his mother's life , Gray spent most of ...
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... character , but he never opposed his native classical desire for precision and polish . In 1740 he was so little conscious of the true nature of poetry or of the new trend in life and verse that he began to write a Latin epic poem that ...
... character , but he never opposed his native classical desire for precision and polish . In 1740 he was so little conscious of the true nature of poetry or of the new trend in life and verse that he began to write a Latin epic poem that ...
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... character is portrayed in Dr. Primrose of The Vicar of Wakefield and in the parson of The Deserted Village . At the age of eight he suffered a severe attack of smallpox and his face was greatly disfigured . In other respects , moreover ...
... character is portrayed in Dr. Primrose of The Vicar of Wakefield and in the parson of The Deserted Village . At the age of eight he suffered a severe attack of smallpox and his face was greatly disfigured . In other respects , moreover ...
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... character of his father , embodied likewise the recollections of his brother Henry ; for the natures of the father and son seem to have been identical . " 1. 142. passing rich with forty pounds a year . Passing means surpassingly . This ...
... character of his father , embodied likewise the recollections of his brother Henry ; for the natures of the father and son seem to have been identical . " 1. 142. passing rich with forty pounds a year . Passing means surpassingly . This ...
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Page 30 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay — There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view ; I knew him well, and every truant knew: Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he...
Page 116 - He heard it, but he heeded not, — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away. He recked not of the life he lost, nor prize; But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother, — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday!
Page 6 - No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How...
Page 132 - Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime, The image of Eternity, the throne Of the invisible,— even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 180 - And his low head and crest, just one sharp ear bent back For my voice, and the other pricked out on his track; And one eye's black intelligence, — ever that glance O'er its white edge at me, his own master, askance! And the thick, heavy spume-flakes, which aye and anon His fierce lips shook upwards in galloping on. By Hasselt, Dirck groaned; and cried Joris, "Stay spur! Your Roos galloped bravely, the fault's not in her, We'll remember at Aix...
Page 131 - The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war: These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.
Page 32 - Yes, let the rich deride, the proud disdain These simple blessings of the lowly train; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm than all the gloss of art. Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play, 255 The soul adopts, and owns their first-born sway; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined.
Page 180 - Not a word to each other; we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened each stirrup, and set the pique right, Rebuckled the cheek-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit.
Page 116 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low : And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 34 - Tumultuous grandeur crowds the blazing square, The rattling chariots clash, the torches glare. Sure scenes like these no troubles e'er annoy ! Sure these denote one universal joy ! Are these thy serious thoughts ? — Ah, turn thine eyes Where the poor houseless shivering female lies. She once, perhaps, in village plenty blest, Has wept at tales of innocence distrest ; Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn ; Now lost to all, her friends, her virtue...