The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers and a General Introduction, Volume 3Thomas Humphry Ward Macmillan, 1906 - English poetry |
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... Spring ' Storm in Harvest , from ' Autumn ' To her I love • · Extracts from the Castle of Indolence . Book I JOHN ARMSTRONG ( 1709-1779 ) PAGE Prof. W. Minto 159 • 163 165 166 · · 167 George Saintsbury . 168 173 • 174 175 176 • 178 178 ...
... Spring ' Storm in Harvest , from ' Autumn ' To her I love • · Extracts from the Castle of Indolence . Book I JOHN ARMSTRONG ( 1709-1779 ) PAGE Prof. W. Minto 159 • 163 165 166 · · 167 George Saintsbury . 168 173 • 174 175 176 • 178 178 ...
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... . Thomson • Algernon Charles Swinburne 282 283 • • • 287 · 287 289 292 An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland 294 Dirge in Cymbeline . · 300 THOMAS GRAY ( 1716-1771 ) Ode on the Spring · viii CONTENTS .
... . Thomson • Algernon Charles Swinburne 282 283 • • • 287 · 287 289 292 An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland 294 Dirge in Cymbeline . · 300 THOMAS GRAY ( 1716-1771 ) Ode on the Spring · viii CONTENTS .
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... Spring · • Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College Hymn to Adversity The Progress of Poesy The Bard . • Elegy written in a Country Churchyard Sonnet on the death of Mr. Richard West Sketch of his own Character • Impromptu on Lord ...
... Spring · • Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College Hymn to Adversity The Progress of Poesy The Bard . • Elegy written in a Country Churchyard Sonnet on the death of Mr. Richard West Sketch of his own Character • Impromptu on Lord ...
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... Spring Life • GEORGE CRABBE ( 1754-1832 ) The Village as it is ( from The Village ) Extracts from The Borough : The Convict's Dream . Strolling Players . • The Founder of the Almshouse A Storm on the East Coast An Entanglement ( from ...
... Spring Life • GEORGE CRABBE ( 1754-1832 ) The Village as it is ( from The Village ) Extracts from The Borough : The Convict's Dream . Strolling Players . • The Founder of the Almshouse A Storm on the East Coast An Entanglement ( from ...
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... springs of life , Leave your officious toil and strife ; For I would hear her voice , and try If it be possible to die . ' This is beautifully and musically said . The second stanza is not so good ; and in the third the charm is ...
... springs of life , Leave your officious toil and strife ; For I would hear her voice , and try If it be possible to die . ' This is beautifully and musically said . The second stanza is not so good ; and in the third the charm is ...
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Page 321 - The unfeeling for his own. Yet, ah ! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies ? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more ; — where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
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 378 - 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.
Page 568 - Guid faith he mauna fa' that. For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that ; The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher rank than a that. Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that ; That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a
Page 607 - 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?
Page 553 - Thou ling'ring star, with less'ning ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O Mary! dear departed shade! Where is thy place of blissful rest? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast?
Page 332 - Await alike the inevitable hour: — The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of Death...
Page 604 - Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: "Pipe a song about a Lamb!' So I piped with merry cheer. 'Piper, pipe that song again;
Page 290 - twas wild. But thou, O Hope ! with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure...
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. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How...