The Literary magnet of the belles lettres, science, and the fine arts, ed. by Tobias Merton. Vol.1 - new ser., vol.[2. Vol.2 of the new ser. wants all after p.192]., Volume 4Tobias Merton (pseud) 1826 |
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... wishes , he grasps at boundless pleasures : he possesses them ; and even in the fulness of enjoyment feels , that ere he has paid their price , their zest is flown , that ere his hunger is appeased , his appetite has fled , and has left ...
... wishes , he grasps at boundless pleasures : he possesses them ; and even in the fulness of enjoyment feels , that ere he has paid their price , their zest is flown , that ere his hunger is appeased , his appetite has fled , and has left ...
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... wish me from the noise Of the great world withdrawn under the shade Of the two cocoas , which , as the wind play'd With their high feathery leaves , murmur'd the song Of your ill - starr'd nativity ! Not long Will he , by life's cold ...
... wish me from the noise Of the great world withdrawn under the shade Of the two cocoas , which , as the wind play'd With their high feathery leaves , murmur'd the song Of your ill - starr'd nativity ! Not long Will he , by life's cold ...
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... wish to live , as Horace says " quam molliter , " than from any inherent thoughtlessness or frivolity of character . His learning , at a time when the most abstruse and severe sciences were cultivated , when no one ever thought of We ...
... wish to live , as Horace says " quam molliter , " than from any inherent thoughtlessness or frivolity of character . His learning , at a time when the most abstruse and severe sciences were cultivated , when no one ever thought of We ...
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... wishes , Yours , LEIGH HUNT . SONNET . MARY ! oh , Mary ! I am nought to thee , Nor much to any other . To myself I am as little as man's vanity Permits him in his own fond eye to be : And yet I have forsworn the glittering pelf Which ...
... wishes , Yours , LEIGH HUNT . SONNET . MARY ! oh , Mary ! I am nought to thee , Nor much to any other . To myself I am as little as man's vanity Permits him in his own fond eye to be : And yet I have forsworn the glittering pelf Which ...
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... wishes , relative to the self - acting garter , are gratified . " On this she drew from her tabby skin reticule a pair of odd looking leg ligatures , which she displayed with a trium- phant smile . It was instantly resolved , that a ...
... wishes , relative to the self - acting garter , are gratified . " On this she drew from her tabby skin reticule a pair of odd looking leg ligatures , which she displayed with a trium- phant smile . It was instantly resolved , that a ...
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Page 201 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Page 235 - The bride kissed the goblet : the knight took it up, He quaffed off the wine, and he threw down the cup. She looked down to blush, and she looked up to sigh, With a smile on her lips and a tear in her eye. He took her soft hand, ere her mother could bar, 'Now tread we a measure !
Page 114 - I cannot blame him : at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets ; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shak'd like a coward.
Page 115 - Why, so can I ; or so can any man : But will they come, when you do call for them ? Glend.
Page 245 - LET others seek for empty joys, At ball, or concert, rout, or play ; Whilst far from Fashion's idle noise, Her gilded domes, and trappings gay, I while the wintry eve away,— 'Twixt book and lute the hours divide ; And marvel how I e'er could stray From thee — my own Fire-side ! My own Fire-side ! Those simple words Can bid the sweetest dreams arise ; Awaken Feeling's tenderest chords, And fill with tears of joy...
Page 78 - Accompany the noonday nightingales ; And all the place is peopled with sweet airs ; The light clear element which the isle wears Is heavy with the scent of lemon-flowers, Which floats like mist laden with unseen showers, And falls upon the eyelids like faint sleep ; And from the moss violets and jonquils peep, And dart their arrowy odour through the brain, Till you might faint with that delicious pain.
Page 78 - To other lands, leave azure chasms of calm Over this isle, or weep themselves in dew, From which its fields and woods ever renew Their green and golden immortality.
Page 243 - We saw her mighty cable riven Like floating gossamer ! We saw her proud flag struck that morn, A star once o'er the seas, Her helm beat down, her deck uptorn, — And sadder things than these ! We saw her treasures cast away ; The rocks with pearls were sown...
Page 202 - THE WORLD'S WANDERERS. TELL me, thou star, whose wings of light Speed thee in thy fiery flight, In what cavern of the night Will thy pinions close now? Tell me, moon, thou pale and gray Pilgrim of heaven's homeless way, In what depth of night or day Seekest thou repose now? Weary wind, who wanderest Like the world's rejected guest, Hast thou still some secret nest On the tree or billow?
Page 79 - An envy of the isles, a pleasure-house Made sacred to his sister and his spouse. It scarce seems now a wreck of human art...