The Nineteenth Century and After, Volume 94Leonard Scott Publishing Company, 1923 |
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Pagina 63 - He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Pagina 826 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Pagina 824 - Yestreen, when to the trembling string The dance gaed thro' the lighted ha', To thee my fancy took its wing, I sat, but neither heard nor saw: Tho' this was fair, and that was braw, And yon the toast of a' the town, I sigh'd and said amang them a'; — "Ye are na Mary Morison!
Pagina 4 - How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done...
Pagina 11 - Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?
Pagina 822 - Phoebus gins arise His steeds to water at those springs On chalic'd flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes; With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise, Arise, arise.
Pagina 206 - Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history: for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular.
Pagina 822 - Under a tuft of shade that on a green Stood whispering soft, by a fresh fountain side They sat them down...
Pagina 56 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Pagina 51 - HE rises and begins to round, He drops the silver chain of sound, Of many links without a break, In chirrup, whistle, slur and shake, All intervolved and spreading wide, Like water-dimples down a tide Where ripple ripple overcurls And eddy into eddy whirls ; A press of hurried notes that run So fleet they scarce are more than one, Yet changeingly the trills repeat And linger ringing while they fleet, Sweet to the quick o...