The English Poets: Selections, Volume 3Thomas Humphry Ward Macmillan, 1909 - English poetry |
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... truth of the principle , ' Poeta nascitur non fit . ' Possessed of an inimitable prose style , which makes him the most graceful of all social satirists , the creator of Sir Roger de Coverley rarely succeeds , as a poet , in impressing ...
... truth of the principle , ' Poeta nascitur non fit . ' Possessed of an inimitable prose style , which makes him the most graceful of all social satirists , the creator of Sir Roger de Coverley rarely succeeds , as a poet , in impressing ...
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... truth of a song ? What I speak , my fair Chloe , and what I write , shews The difference there is betwixt nature and art : I court others in verse ; but I love thee in prose : And they have my whimsies ; but thou hast my heart . The god ...
... truth of a song ? What I speak , my fair Chloe , and what I write , shews The difference there is betwixt nature and art : I court others in verse ; but I love thee in prose : And they have my whimsies ; but thou hast my heart . The god ...
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... truth can have . He is at his best only where the delicacies and subtle felicities of his diction are employed to embody some transient phase of contemporary feeling . Pope has small know- ledge of books . Though he was , as Sir W ...
... truth can have . He is at his best only where the delicacies and subtle felicities of his diction are employed to embody some transient phase of contemporary feeling . Pope has small know- ledge of books . Though he was , as Sir W ...
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... truth , general themes , past history , his want of knowledge makes itself felt in feeble and distorted views . The first production of Pope to appear in print was his Pastorals , published 1709 , when the author was twenty - one , but ...
... truth , general themes , past history , his want of knowledge makes itself felt in feeble and distorted views . The first production of Pope to appear in print was his Pastorals , published 1709 , when the author was twenty - one , but ...
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... truth . They exemplify his own line ' What oft was thought , but ne'er so well expressed . ' Pope told Spence that he had ' gone through all the best critics , ' specify- ing Quintilian , Rapin and Le Bossu . But whatever trouble he ...
... truth . They exemplify his own line ' What oft was thought , but ne'er so well expressed . ' Pope told Spence that he had ' gone through all the best critics , ' specify- ing Quintilian , Rapin and Le Bossu . But whatever trouble he ...
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Page 263 - Other refuge have I none — Hangs my helpless soul on Thee : Leave, ah ! leave me not alone, Still support and comfort me ! , All my trust on Thee is stay'd, All my help from Thee I bring: Cover my defenceless head With the shadow of thy wing.
Page 607 - TIGER! Tiger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire? And what shoulder, and what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand? and what dread feet?
Page 381 - When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds, too late, that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, is— to die.
Page 567 - Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea stamp ; The man's the gowd for a' that. What tho' on hamely fare we dine, Wear hodden-gray, and a' that ; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine, A man's a man for a' that. For a
Page 332 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Page 532 - November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The short'ning winter-day is near a close ; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh ; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose : The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant...
Page 86 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Page 373 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...
Page 287 - How sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! 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 Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!
Page 378 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.