Selections from the poets; or, passages illustrating peculiarities of their style, by W. Theobald, with notesWilliam Theobald 1884 |
Common terms and phrases
Æneid Alluding arms battle beauty beneath Bishop blood blue Blueb born Botherby brave breast breath Cutty-sark dark dear death dread earth Erin go bragh Etruria eyes fair fairies fame fate father fear fire flame frae Georgic give GLASTONBURY ABBEY gods gold grace Greece hand hath head hear heart Heaven honour Hudibras Inkel King kye come hame labour Lady Bluem lassie light live Lochaber Lord mighty mind Muse ne'er never night numbers o'er once plain poet poetry poor Pope praise pride priest proud Queen Queen Mab quoth Rome round sacred scenes shade shine silver sire slaves smile Smilinda soft song soul spirit Spleen spring sweet tear thee Thomas Becket thou Tibur Twas vellowe verse W. E. GLADSTONE waves wild Wood worship youth Zeus
Popular passages
Page 44 - Winter, yelling through the troublous air, Affrights thy shrinking train, And rudely rends thy robes, — So long, regardful of thy quiet rule, Shall Fancy, Friendship, Science, smiling Peace, Thy gentlest influence own, And love thy favourite name.
Page 26 - A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Page 117 - With light and heat refulgent. Then thy sun Shoots full perfection through the swelling year; And oft thy voice in dreadful thunder speaks: And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve, By brooks and groves, in hollow-whispering gales.
Page 56 - Snatch from the ashes of your sires The embers of their former fires ; And he who in the strife expires Will add to theirs a name of fear That Tyranny shall quake to hear...
Page 93 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Page 73 - Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow? By their right arms the conquest must be wrought? Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye ? No ! True, they may lay your proud despoilers low, But not for you will freedom's altars flame.
Page 31 - Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death?
Page 27 - The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast : Theirs buxom health of rosy hue, Wild wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer of vigour born ; The thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light, That fly th
Page 31 - But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the souL Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village Hampden that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his...
Page 157 - Compared with this, how poor religion's pride, In all the pomp of method, and of art, When men display to congregations wide Devotion's every grace, except the heart!