The Indicator: A Miscellany for the Fields and the Fireside, Volume 2Wiley and Putnam, 161 Broadway., 1845 - 495 pages |
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... called the Moroe , Bee Cuckoo , or Honey Bird . There he arriving , round about doth flie , And takes survey with busie , curious eye : Now this , now that , he tasteth tenderly . - SPENCER . CHAPTER I. Difficulty of finding a Name for ...
... called the Moroe , Bee Cuckoo , or Honey Bird . There he arriving , round about doth flie , And takes survey with busie , curious eye : Now this , now that , he tasteth tenderly . - SPENCER . CHAPTER I. Difficulty of finding a Name for ...
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... called the Bank - side , in the same lodging , having the same wardrobe , and some say with other participa- tions more remarkable , lived Beaumont and Fletcher . In the Borough , also , at St. Saviour's , lie Fletcher and Massinger in ...
... called the Bank - side , in the same lodging , having the same wardrobe , and some say with other participa- tions more remarkable , lived Beaumont and Fletcher . In the Borough , also , at St. Saviour's , lie Fletcher and Massinger in ...
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... called the Sun and Moon , in Aldersgate - street ; and is known to have frequented , with Beaumont and others , the famous one called the Mermaid , which was in Cornhill . Beaumont , writing to him from the country , in an epistle full ...
... called the Sun and Moon , in Aldersgate - street ; and is known to have frequented , with Beaumont and others , the famous one called the Mermaid , which was in Cornhill . Beaumont , writing to him from the country , in an epistle full ...
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... called Familiar Lares , and the evil or malignant ones Larvæ and Lemures . Thus Milton , in his awful Hymn on the Nativity : - In consecrated earth , And on the holy hearth , The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint . In urns and ...
... called Familiar Lares , and the evil or malignant ones Larvæ and Lemures . Thus Milton , in his awful Hymn on the Nativity : - In consecrated earth , And on the holy hearth , The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint . In urns and ...
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... called the Lar ; and that the name was also given to houses . Herrick , a poet of the Anacreontic order in the time of Eliza- beth , who was visited , perhaps more than any other , except Spenser , with a sense of the pleasantest parts ...
... called the Lar ; and that the name was also given to houses . Herrick , a poet of the Anacreontic order in the time of Eliza- beth , who was visited , perhaps more than any other , except Spenser , with a sense of the pleasantest parts ...
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Page 10 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines...
Page 180 - Sirens' harmony, That sit upon the nine infolded spheres, And sing to those that hold the vital shears, And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of Gods and men is wound. Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie, To lull the daughters of Necessity, And keep unsteady Nature to her law, And the low world in measured motion draw After the heavenly tune, which none can hear Of human mould, with gross unpurged ear...
Page 43 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war; Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Page 195 - Saturn laughed and leaped with him. Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue, Could make me any summer's story tell: Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew: Nor did...
Page 137 - This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not. — Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
Page 43 - Many were the wit-combats betwixt him and Ben Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare...
Page 85 - See ! see ! (I cried) she tacks no more ! Hither to work us weal ; Without a breeze, without a tide, She steadies with upright keel ! ' The western wave was all a-flame, The day was well-nigh done ! Almost upon the western wave Rested the broad bright Sun ; When that strange shape drove suddenly Betwixt us and the Sun.
Page 201 - MORNING. Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.
Page 184 - The early cherry, with the later plum, Fig, grape, and quince, each in his time doth come ; The blushing apricot and woolly peach Hang on thy walls, that every child may reach.
Page 212 - She found me roots of relish sweet, And honey wild, and manna dew, And sure in language strange she said — "I love thee true.