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... story of the way in which the gift of song came to him in his old age is related by the Venerable Bede , to whom we are indebted for an invaluable chronicle , mixed up with much that is beautiful and grotesque in legend , of the seventh ...
... story of the way in which the gift of song came to him in his old age is related by the Venerable Bede , to whom we are indebted for an invaluable chronicle , mixed up with much that is beautiful and grotesque in legend , of the seventh ...
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... story told by Wyatt's grandson , but also from what we know of the lady's free manners and volatile dispo- sition . On the other hand , if Surrey's Geraldine was really the Lady Elizabeth Fitzgerald - a state- ment that has been ...
... story told by Wyatt's grandson , but also from what we know of the lady's free manners and volatile dispo- sition . On the other hand , if Surrey's Geraldine was really the Lady Elizabeth Fitzgerald - a state- ment that has been ...
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... stories by different authors , on the plan of Boccaccio's prose work , ' De Casibus virorum illustrium , ' recounting the mis- fortunes and reverses of men eminent in English history . It was designed to form a series of dramatic ...
... stories by different authors , on the plan of Boccaccio's prose work , ' De Casibus virorum illustrium , ' recounting the mis- fortunes and reverses of men eminent in English history . It was designed to form a series of dramatic ...
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... story of their woes . It was impossible that a work formed on a design like this , and destined to be carried out by various hands , should glow throughout with the white heat of poetry . It did , in fact , degenerate into a mere ...
... story of their woes . It was impossible that a work formed on a design like this , and destined to be carried out by various hands , should glow throughout with the white heat of poetry . It did , in fact , degenerate into a mere ...
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... story of his life is forced to feel his way by the help of probabilities and conjectures , and by references to his poetry . Mr. Hales , the editor of the Globe Spenser , states that the poems are the one great authority for the ...
... story of his life is forced to feel his way by the help of probabilities and conjectures , and by references to his poetry . Mr. Hales , the editor of the Globe Spenser , states that the poems are the one great authority for the ...
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Page 24 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Page 190 - 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 124 - 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 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.
Page 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.
Page 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!
Page 271 - Here pause — and, thro' the starting tear, Survey this grave. The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know, And keenly felt the friendly glow, And softer flame ; But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name ! Reader, attend ! whether thy soul Soars fancy's flights beyond the pole, Or darkling grubs this earthly hole, In low pursuit ; Know, prudent, cautious, self-control Is wisdom's root.
Page 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.
Page 140 - Farewell, happy fields, Where joy for ever dwells ; hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place, or time.
Page 263 - I forget the hallowed grove, Where by the winding Ayr we met, To live one day of parting love ! Eternity will not efface Those records dear of transports past ; Thy image at our last embrace ; Ah ! little thought we 'twas our last ! Ayr gurgling kissed his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods, thickening, green ; The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twined amorous round the raptured scene.