Representative passages from English literature, chosen and arranged by W.H. HudsonG. Bell & Sons, 1914 - 319 pages |
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... keene steele nigh hewen be ; The mightie trunck , halfe rent with ragged rift , Doth roll adowne the rocks , and fall with fearefull drift . Or as a Castle , reared high and round , 5.4 EXTRACTS FROM ENGLISH LITERATURE.
... keene steele nigh hewen be ; The mightie trunck , halfe rent with ragged rift , Doth roll adowne the rocks , and fall with fearefull drift . Or as a Castle , reared high and round , 5.4 EXTRACTS FROM ENGLISH LITERATURE.
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William Henry Hudson. Or as a Castle , reared high and round , By subtile engins and malitious slight Is undermined from the lowest ground , And her foundation forst , and feebled quight , At last downe falles ; and with her heaped hight ...
William Henry Hudson. Or as a Castle , reared high and round , By subtile engins and malitious slight Is undermined from the lowest ground , And her foundation forst , and feebled quight , At last downe falles ; and with her heaped hight ...
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... round about him lay on every side Great heapes of gold that never could be spent ; Of which some were rude owre , not purifide Of Mulcibers devouring element ; Some others were new driven , and distent Into great ingowes and to wedges ...
... round about him lay on every side Great heapes of gold that never could be spent ; Of which some were rude owre , not purifide Of Mulcibers devouring element ; Some others were new driven , and distent Into great ingowes and to wedges ...
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... the truth of civil business ; it will be acknowledged even by Lucretius , who was an adherent of the Epicurean school of Philosophy . those that practise it not , that clear and round 84 EXTRACTS FROM ENGLISH LITERATURE.
... the truth of civil business ; it will be acknowledged even by Lucretius , who was an adherent of the Epicurean school of Philosophy . those that practise it not , that clear and round 84 EXTRACTS FROM ENGLISH LITERATURE.
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William Henry Hudson. those that practise it not , that clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature , and that mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver , which may make the metal work the better , but it ...
William Henry Hudson. those that practise it not , that clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature , and that mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver , which may make the metal work the better , but it ...
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Page 265 - HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher, From the earth thou springest, Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
Page 274 - MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk...
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Page 225 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The child is father of the man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Page 69 - I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste: Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow, For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, And weep afresh love's long since...
Page 69 - 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.
Page 210 - The next with dirges due in sad array Slow thro' the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 158 - is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le...
Page 69 - When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries And look upon myself and curse my fate. Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope.
Page 296 - Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in His hand Who saith, "A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God; see all, nor be afraid!