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... Ancient English Poetry " -The character of this Poetry - Robert Burns- His boyhood - Early trials - Mossgeil Farm - The freshness of his Poetry- Its universality - Wordsworth's lines- " The Mountain - Daisy " — " The Field - Mouse ...
... Ancient English Poetry " -The character of this Poetry - Robert Burns- His boyhood - Early trials - Mossgeil Farm - The freshness of his Poetry- Its universality - Wordsworth's lines- " The Mountain - Daisy " — " The Field - Mouse ...
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... ancient as poetry itself , and that it will last while the world lasts , modified , indeed , as I shall endeavour presently to show , by the distinctive spirit of the times . The constitutional infirmity of man is his proneness to ...
... ancient as poetry itself , and that it will last while the world lasts , modified , indeed , as I shall endeavour presently to show , by the distinctive spirit of the times . The constitutional infirmity of man is his proneness to ...
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... ancient range in the wide domain of patriotism and religion , with the weapons of derision , by a shadow calling itself Good Sense ; calculations of presumptuous expediency , groping its way among partial and temporary consequences ...
... ancient range in the wide domain of patriotism and religion , with the weapons of derision , by a shadow calling itself Good Sense ; calculations of presumptuous expediency , groping its way among partial and temporary consequences ...
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... ancient tongue than that from which our word " poet " has been derived , a writer of the seventeenth century remarks , — " " T was surely prophetic that the name Of prophet and of poet was the same ; and Cowper has the lines , " In a ...
... ancient tongue than that from which our word " poet " has been derived , a writer of the seventeenth century remarks , — " " T was surely prophetic that the name Of prophet and of poet was the same ; and Cowper has the lines , " In a ...
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... ancient poets were led to adopt a metrical form , to enable their hearers , in a barbarous age , more easily to recollect their com- positions . If poetry were like the familiar rhymes employed to recall the number of days in each month ...
... ancient poets were led to adopt a metrical form , to enable their hearers , in a barbarous age , more easily to recollect their com- positions . If poetry were like the familiar rhymes employed to recall the number of days in each month ...
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Page 373 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration...
Page 163 - To ALTHEA FROM PRISON WHEN Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair And fetter'd to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
Page 198 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Page 108 - Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
Page 368 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Page 332 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 25 - These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation; and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune...
Page 406 - 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.
Page 288 - THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I have been laughing, I have been carousing, Drinking late, sitting late, with my bosom cronies; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
Page 276 - I pass, like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me: To him my tale I teach.