A Hand-book of English Literature Intended for the Use of High Schools, as Well as a Companion and Guide for Private Students, and for General ReadersLee & Shepard, 1871 - 608 pages |
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... , Ycladd in mightie armes and silver shielde , Wherein old dints of deepe woundes did remaine , The cruel markes of many a bloody fielde ; Yet armes till that time did he never wield : 6 HAND - BOOK OF ENGLISH LITERATURE .
... , Ycladd in mightie armes and silver shielde , Wherein old dints of deepe woundes did remaine , The cruel markes of many a bloody fielde ; Yet armes till that time did he never wield : 6 HAND - BOOK OF ENGLISH LITERATURE .
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... never dry ; The builder oake , sole king of forrests all ; The aspine good for staves ; the cypresse funerall ; IX . The laurell , meed of mightie conquerours And poets sage ; the firre that weepeth still ; The willow , worne of ...
... never dry ; The builder oake , sole king of forrests all ; The aspine good for staves ; the cypresse funerall ; IX . The laurell , meed of mightie conquerours And poets sage ; the firre that weepeth still ; The willow , worne of ...
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... never peepe , His dwelling is ; there Tethys his wet bed Doth ever wash , and Cynthia still doth steepe In silver deaw his ever - drouping hed , Whiles sad Night over him her mantle black doth spred ; XL . Whose double gates he findeth ...
... never peepe , His dwelling is ; there Tethys his wet bed Doth ever wash , and Cynthia still doth steepe In silver deaw his ever - drouping hed , Whiles sad Night over him her mantle black doth spred ; XL . Whose double gates he findeth ...
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... never been excelled , certainly not by any of our English race . Besides the Essays , which are wonderful specimens of crystallized thought , his principal works are " On the Advancement of Learning , " and the " Novum Organon , " a ...
... never been excelled , certainly not by any of our English race . Besides the Essays , which are wonderful specimens of crystallized thought , his principal works are " On the Advancement of Learning , " and the " Novum Organon , " a ...
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... never after hear of the other's suit . There is a cunning which we in England call " the turning of the cat in the pan ; " 4 which is , when that which a man says to another , he lays it as if another had said it to him ; and , to say ...
... never after hear of the other's suit . There is a cunning which we in England call " the turning of the cat in the pan ; " 4 which is , when that which a man says to another , he lays it as if another had said it to him ; and , to say ...
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Page 401 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined and unknown.
Page 275 - EARTH has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will:...
Page 274 - And the round ocean and the living air And the blue sky, and in the mind of man — A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods And mountains, and of all that we behold From this green earth, of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create And what perceive...
Page 29 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O, no ! it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of...
Page 490 - Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Page 199 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 493 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story ; The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. O, hark, O, hear! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going! O, sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 201 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all. And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Page 298 - One touch to her hand and one word in her ear, When they reached the hall-door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung! "She is won ! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur ; They'll have fleet steeds that follow," quoth young Lochinvar. There was mounting 'mong Graemes of the Netherby clan; Forsters, Fenwicks, and Musgraves, they rode and they ran! There was racing and chasing on Cannobie Lee, But the lost bride of...
Page 26 - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least ; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.