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... Blessed Spot · 324 • CLEMENT MAROT . On the Laugh of Madame D'Albret 325 • -- A Court Love - Lesson . 327 DESTOUCHES . - Epitaph on an Englishman DE BOUFFLERS . - Love and War . Love and Reason ANONYMOUS . - The Essence of Opera BOILEAU ...
... Blessed Spot · 324 • CLEMENT MAROT . On the Laugh of Madame D'Albret 325 • -- A Court Love - Lesson . 327 DESTOUCHES . - Epitaph on an Englishman DE BOUFFLERS . - Love and War . Love and Reason ANONYMOUS . - The Essence of Opera BOILEAU ...
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... bless these thousands , harder still : With that , a keen and quivering glance of tears Scarce moves her patient mouth , and disappears ; A smile is underneath , and breaks away , And round she looks and breathes , as best befits the ...
... bless these thousands , harder still : With that , a keen and quivering glance of tears Scarce moves her patient mouth , and disappears ; A smile is underneath , and breaks away , And round she looks and breathes , as best befits the ...
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... bless and to be blessed , -to be heart - bare To one who found his bettered likeness there , — To think for ever with him , like a bride , — To haunt his eye , like taste personified , - To double his delight , to share his sorrow , And ...
... bless and to be blessed , -to be heart - bare To one who found his bettered likeness there , — To think for ever with him , like a bride , — To haunt his eye , like taste personified , - To double his delight , to share his sorrow , And ...
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... blessing , But then he might console for not possessing ; And glorious things there were , which but to see And not admire , was mere stupidity : He might as well object to his own eyes For loving to behold the fields and skies , His ...
... blessing , But then he might console for not possessing ; And glorious things there were , which but to see And not admire , was mere stupidity : He might as well object to his own eyes For loving to behold the fields and skies , His ...
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... blessing stretched their old arms out , With spots of sunny opening , and with nooks , To lie and read in , sloping into brooks , Where at her drink you started the slim deer , Retreating lightly with a lovely fear . And all about , the ...
... blessing stretched their old arms out , With spots of sunny opening , and with nooks , To lie and read in , sloping into brooks , Where at her drink you started the slim deer , Retreating lightly with a lovely fear . And all about , the ...
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Alcmena ALMANZOR amor Amphitryon AMYNTAS Arsaces Bacchus beauty bless bower breath bride brother CANTO chanoine cried dance dear delight dreadful drink Dryden EDWARD MOXON eyes face fair fancy fear feel felt flowers gentle Giovanni golden grace green hair half hand head hear heart Hero and Leander heroic couplet IMOGEN JAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES king King Ban kiss knight ladies light lips locks look look'd lord lovers Montepulciano nature never noble o'er ogni once pain panther passage Paulo PIRITHOUS poem poetry poets portamento pride prince Ravenna rhyme ROBERT SOUTHEY rose round scarcely scorn seemed shade shew sigh sight sing Sirmio sleep smile song sorrow soul spirit squires Story of Rimini sweet sword tazze tears thee Theocritus thing thou thought Tiresias took Trebbiano trees truth turn twas verse voice wine word δὲ καὶ
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Page xx - Till you, the best Vitruvius, come at length, Our beauties equal, but excel our strength. Firm Doric pillars found your solid base, The fair Corinthian crowns the higher space; Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
Page xxix - 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 xxxv - Eternal HOPE ! when yonder spheres sublime Peal'd their first notes to sound the march of Time, Thy joyous youth began — but not to fade. — When all the sister planets have...
Page 229 - Bithynos liquisse campos et videre te in tuto ! o quid solutis est beatius curis ? cum mens onus reponit, ac peregrino labore fessi venimus larem ad nostrum desideratoque acquiescimus lecto. hoc est, quod unum est pro laboribus tantis.
Page 253 - Chiare, fresche e dolci acque, ove le belle membra pose colei che sola a me par donna; gentil ramo ove piacque (con sospir mi rimembra) a lei di fare al bel fianco colonna; erba e fior che la gonna leggiadra ricoverse co l'angelico seno; aere sacro sereno ove Amor co' begli occhi il cor m'aperse: date udìenzia insieme a le dolenti mie parole estreme.
Page 259 - 1 suo grembo; Et ella si sedea Umile in tanta gloria, Coverta già de l'amoroso nembo. Qual fior cadea sul lembo, Qual su le treccie bionde, Ch'oro forbito e perle Eran quel dì a vederle ; Qual si posava in terra, e qual su l'onde ; Qual con un vago errore Girando parea dir: 'Qui regna Amore.
Page 211 - It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream And times and things, as in that vision, seem Keeping along it their eternal stands,— Caves, pillars, pyramids, the shepherd bands That roamed through the young world, the glory extreme Of high Sesostris, and that southern beam, The laughing queen that caught the world's great hands. Then comes a mightier silence, stern and strong, As of a world left empty of its throng, And the void weighs on us;...
Page 280 - What pleases is permitted. Then among streams and flowers The little winged powers Went singing carols without torch or bow; The nymphs and shepherds sat Mingling with innocent chat Sports and low whispers; and with whispers low, Kisses that would not go. The maiden, budding o'er, Kept not her bloom uneyed, Which now a veil must hide, Nor the crisp apples which her bosom bore; And oftentimes, in river or in lake, The lover and his love their merry bath would take. 'Twas...
Page 260 - How often then I said, .. Inward, and filled with dread, "Doubtless this creature came from paradise !" For at her look the while, Her voice, and her sweet smile And heavenly air, truth parted from mine eyes; So that, with long-drawn sighs, I said, as far from men, " How came I here, and when ?
Page 277 - LOVELY age of gold ! Not that the rivers rolled With milk, or that the woods wept honeydew; Not that the ready ground Produced without a wound, Or the mild serpent had no tooth that slew , Not that a cloudless blue For ever was in sight, Or that the heaven, which burns And now is cold by turns, Looked out in glad and everlasting light ; No, nor that even the insolent ships from far Brought war to no new lands, nor riches worse than war...