Praise of the Dog...E.P. Dutton & Company, 1902 - 232 pages |
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Page 60
... Feel a new resistless flame ! Let the happiest of his race Win the fair to his embrace . But in shade the rest conceal , Nor to sight their joys reveal , Lest the pencil and the Muse Loose desires and thoughts infuse . Jonathan Swift ...
... Feel a new resistless flame ! Let the happiest of his race Win the fair to his embrace . But in shade the rest conceal , Nor to sight their joys reveal , Lest the pencil and the Muse Loose desires and thoughts infuse . Jonathan Swift ...
Page 65
... feels his own . We're born a restless needy crew : Shew me the happier man than you . Adam , though blest above his kind , For want of social woman pined . Eve's wants the subtle serpent saw , Her fickle taste transgress'd the law ...
... feels his own . We're born a restless needy crew : Shew me the happier man than you . Adam , though blest above his kind , For want of social woman pined . Eve's wants the subtle serpent saw , Her fickle taste transgress'd the law ...
Page 68
... feel their sev'ral cares . If thus yon mighty beast complains , Perhaps man knows superior pains . Let envy them no more torment : Think on the Ox , and learn content . Thus said : close following at her heel , With 68.
... feel their sev'ral cares . If thus yon mighty beast complains , Perhaps man knows superior pains . Let envy them no more torment : Think on the Ox , and learn content . Thus said : close following at her heel , With 68.
Page 95
... feels thy stripes unjust , He bears them all , and humbles to the dust ; Unmurmuring bears them , and one slight caress , Tho ' smitten to the bone , again can bless . Thy day of labour he is proud to share , And guards thy slumbers ...
... feels thy stripes unjust , He bears them all , and humbles to the dust ; Unmurmuring bears them , and one slight caress , Tho ' smitten to the bone , again can bless . Thy day of labour he is proud to share , And guards thy slumbers ...
Page 96
... feel the labours of his love o'erpaid Near to his monarch master's pillow laid ; Unchang'd by change of circumstance or place : O SACRED LESSON TO A PROUDER RACE ! But , reasoner , say , are these thy gifts of art , Or , native graces ...
... feel the labours of his love o'erpaid Near to his monarch master's pillow laid ; Unchang'd by change of circumstance or place : O SACRED LESSON TO A PROUDER RACE ! But , reasoner , say , are these thy gifts of art , Or , native graces ...
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Alexander Pope auld barcke bark beast beneath bite blood bonny Heck brave breath Bull BULL-BAITING cats Charles Lamb chase Christopher Smart creature cried dead dear death Dog's Dogge door ears EPITAPH ev'ry eyes faithful fate FAUNUS favourite fawning fear feet flock Gêlert gentle George George Crabbe Georges Cuvier grave Greyhound hand hare hath head hear heart Helvellyn Hoggie horn hound hunt Huntsman John John Gay JOHN THROCKMORTON Keeldar kill kind LAP-DOG legs live Llewelyn's look Lord master Mastiff morning ne'er never night nose o'er Odysseus old dog once pack pain poor praise Prodesdan dog puppy race Robert Burns Robert Southey round scent scorn sheep shepherd sleep SPANIEL sport tail tears terrier thee Thesmopolis thine thou thro Tray turn Twas voice wagging walk Walter Savage Landor watched wild William Cowper William Lisle Bowles
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Page 67 - Lo, the poor Indian! Whose untutored 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 112 - The appalled discoverer, with a sigh, Looks round to learn the history. From those abrupt and perilous rocks The man had fallen — that place of fear ! At length upon the shepherd's mind It breaks, and all is clear ; He instantly recalled the name, And who he was and whence he came; Remembered, too, the very day On which the traveller passed this way.
Page 154 - Near this spot Are deposited the Remains Of one Who Possessed Beauty Without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, And all the Virtues of Man Without his Vices. This Praise, which would be unmeaning flattery If inscribed over Human Ashes, Is but a just tribute to the Memory of "Boatswain," a Dog Who was born at Newfoundland, May, 1803, And died at Newstead Abbey Nov. 18, 1808.
Page 111 - With something, as the Shepherd thinks, Unusual in its cry : Nor is there any one in sight All round, in Hollow or on Height ; Nor Shout, nor whistle strikes his ear ; What is the Creature doing here ? It was a Cove, a huge Recess, That keeps till June December's snow A lofty Precipice in front, A silent Tarn* below...
Page 68 - Yet simple Nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Page 78 - The cheerful haunts of man, to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder forest drear, From morn to eve his solitary task.
Page 101 - Oh ! where does faithful Gelert roam? The flower of all his race ; So true, so brave, — a lamb at home, A lion in the chase...
Page 13 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Page 130 - Lakes and mountains beneath me gleamed misty and wide; All was still save by fits, when the eagle was yelling, And starting around me the echoes replied. On the right, Striden-edge round the Redtarn was bending, And Catchedicam its left verge was defending, One huge nameless rock in the front was ascending, "When I marked the sad spot where the wanderer had died.
Page 14 - Lear. The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweet-heart, see, they bark at me.