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... e'en my maiden sword 75 To try its temper on the rhyming horde . Still , as I roam along my destin'd way , The heart - felt tribute of applause I'll pay To those , who , borne upon a wing of flame , Have reach'd , with arduous flight ...
... e'en my maiden sword 75 To try its temper on the rhyming horde . Still , as I roam along my destin'd way , The heart - felt tribute of applause I'll pay To those , who , borne upon a wing of flame , Have reach'd , with arduous flight ...
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... e'en now , To share the wreath , or snatch it from their brow . He sings not Hope " the charmer's " soft control ; But Hope deferr'd , the sick'ner of the soul . His Harolde seeks no Mem'ry's soft'ning aid , 110 115 If Mem'ry come , she ...
... e'en now , To share the wreath , or snatch it from their brow . He sings not Hope " the charmer's " soft control ; But Hope deferr'd , the sick'ner of the soul . His Harolde seeks no Mem'ry's soft'ning aid , 110 115 If Mem'ry come , she ...
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... E'en now , what numbers strive in vain to soar Where Scott and Campbell led the way before ! 140 Didactic Bards could once the town engage , With " Pleasures " drugg'd , now " Lays " are all the rage . Croker , and all the swarm who ...
... E'en now , what numbers strive in vain to soar Where Scott and Campbell led the way before ! 140 Didactic Bards could once the town engage , With " Pleasures " drugg'd , now " Lays " are all the rage . Croker , and all the swarm who ...
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... e'en the tale can boast no Poet's fire , - Will dull'd Conception ponder o'er the line , Where Blackmore's sense and Hayley's metre join ? 215 Strange mania ! that the pamper'd sons of ease , Who rise from pow'r to pow'r by due degrees ...
... e'en the tale can boast no Poet's fire , - Will dull'd Conception ponder o'er the line , Where Blackmore's sense and Hayley's metre join ? 215 Strange mania ! that the pamper'd sons of ease , Who rise from pow'r to pow'r by due degrees ...
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... E'en now she waits thee , Bard of punning race ! With smiling eye , and triumph - beaming face ; 325 NOTES . For myself , I cannot see by what means he will do away their remarks upon the objectionable passages , or free himself from ...
... E'en now she waits thee , Bard of punning race ! With smiling eye , and triumph - beaming face ; 325 NOTES . For myself , I cannot see by what means he will do away their remarks upon the objectionable passages , or free himself from ...
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Page 15 - The next but swept a lone hill-side, Where heath and fern were waving wide...
Page 91 - From the lofty elder-tree ! Through the calm and frosty air Of this morning bright and fair, Eddying round and round they sink Softly, slowly : one might think, From the motions that are made Every little leaf conveyed Sylph or...
Page 91 - Oh ! pleasant, pleasant were the days, The time, when, in our childish plays, My sister Emmeline and I Together chased the butterfly ! A very hunter did I rush Upon the prey : — with leaps and springs I followed on from brake to bush ; But she, God love her ! feared to brush The dust from off its wings.
Page 103 - From the pale willow snatch'd the treasure, And swept it with a kindred measure, Till Avon's swans, while rung the grove With Montfort's hate and Basil's love, Awakening at the inspired strain, Deem'd their own Shakspeare lived again.
Page 57 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
Page 16 - The falcon, from her cairn on high, Cast on the rout a wondering eye, Till far beyond her piercing ken The hurricane had swept the glen.
Page 2 - On ne fut plus ni fat ni sot impunément ; Et malheur à tout nom qui, propre à la censure, Put entrer dans un vers sans rompre la mesure ! Perse, en ses vers obscurs , mais serrés et pressans, Affecta d'enfermer moins de mots que de sens.
Page 50 - But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through and make a lucid interval ; But Shadwell's genuine night admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day.
Page 45 - I'd like to have left out his poetry, Forgot by all almost as well as me. Sometimes he has some humour, never wit. And if it rarely, very rarely hit, 'Tis under...
Page 91 - ORIEVED for Buonaparte, with a vain And an unthinking grief ! The tenderest mood Of that Man's mind — what can it be ? what food Fed his first hopes? what knowledge could he gain? 'Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood.