Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of Each AuthorThomas Davison, 1825 - 562 pages |
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... heart did yearn To prove his puissance in battle brave Upon his foe , and his new force to learn ; Upon his foe , a dragon horrible and stern . A lovely lady rode him fair beside , Upon a lowly ass more white than snow ; Yet she much ...
... heart did yearn To prove his puissance in battle brave Upon his foe , and his new force to learn ; Upon his foe , a dragon horrible and stern . A lovely lady rode him fair beside , Upon a lowly ass more white than snow ; Yet she much ...
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... heart at once : strait did he hail The greedy villain from his hoped prey ; Of which he now did very little fail , And with his staff that drives his herd astray , Him beat so sore , that life and sense did much dismay . The while the ...
... heart at once : strait did he hail The greedy villain from his hoped prey ; Of which he now did very little fail , And with his staff that drives his herd astray , Him beat so sore , that life and sense did much dismay . The while the ...
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... heart Was drawn forth , and in silver bason laid , Quite through transfixed with a deadly dart , And in her blood yet steaming fresh embay'd ; And those two villains , which her steps upstaid , When her weak feet could scarcely her ...
... heart Was drawn forth , and in silver bason laid , Quite through transfixed with a deadly dart , And in her blood yet steaming fresh embay'd ; And those two villains , which her steps upstaid , When her weak feet could scarcely her ...
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... heart's desire , By him that lives thy virtues to admire . THE LADY GERALDINE TO HENRY HOWARD , EARL OF SURREY . SUCH greeting as the noble Surrey sends , The like to thee thy Geraldine commends ; A maiden's thoughts do check my ...
... heart's desire , By him that lives thy virtues to admire . THE LADY GERALDINE TO HENRY HOWARD , EARL OF SURREY . SUCH greeting as the noble Surrey sends , The like to thee thy Geraldine commends ; A maiden's thoughts do check my ...
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... heart ( so near ally'd to earth ) Cannot but pity the perplexed state Of troublous and distress'd mortality , That thus make way unto the ugly birth Of their own sorrows , and do still beget Affliction upon imbecility : Yet seeing thus ...
... heart ( so near ally'd to earth ) Cannot but pity the perplexed state Of troublous and distress'd mortality , That thus make way unto the ugly birth Of their own sorrows , and do still beget Affliction upon imbecility : Yet seeing thus ...
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Page 134 - Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Page 95 - Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold, The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Page 214 - Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Page 79 - This my full rest shall be; England ne'er mourn for me, Nor more esteem me. Victor I will remain, Or on this earth lie slain; Never shall she sustain Loss to redeem me.
Page 476 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. 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 455 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Page 97 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Page 151 - Withdraws into its happiness; The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds and other seas, Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade.
Page 214 - And, amazed, he stares around. Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise : See the snakes that they rear, How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes Behold a ghastly band, Each a torch in his hand...
Page 111 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine: But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.