The Etonian, 2. köideWindsor, Knight and Dredge., 1821 |
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... feel myself qualified to discuss , and which , indeed , I have not time to enter upon ; although they form part , as I think , of a curious and interesting subject . I had prepared to survey the poems before me in various other points ...
... feel myself qualified to discuss , and which , indeed , I have not time to enter upon ; although they form part , as I think , of a curious and interesting subject . I had prepared to survey the poems before me in various other points ...
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... feel not , I , thy boasted power ! Nor seek to gain thine approbation By vow , or prayer , or invocation I ask not what the vapours are , That veil thee like a white cymar ; Nor do I care a single straw For all the stars I ever saw ! I ...
... feel not , I , thy boasted power ! Nor seek to gain thine approbation By vow , or prayer , or invocation I ask not what the vapours are , That veil thee like a white cymar ; Nor do I care a single straw For all the stars I ever saw ! I ...
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... feel that thy so wild and touching strain Will oft hereafter wander through my brain , A faint and dream - like music : -that thy form For ever , from this evening , is enshrin'd Amid those tranquil visions of the mind , Which , when we ...
... feel that thy so wild and touching strain Will oft hereafter wander through my brain , A faint and dream - like music : -that thy form For ever , from this evening , is enshrin'd Amid those tranquil visions of the mind , Which , when we ...
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... feel , As the last sunbeam vanish'd from his sight , And Earth was darken'd in the shade of night . He mark'd the quiet of all living things , The wild birds motionless with folded wings , The weary brutes asleep in wood and brake ...
... feel , As the last sunbeam vanish'd from his sight , And Earth was darken'd in the shade of night . He mark'd the quiet of all living things , The wild birds motionless with folded wings , The weary brutes asleep in wood and brake ...
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... feel vexation About your neighbours , -or the nation ; The gout in fingers or in toes Awakes you from your first repose ; You'll want a clever Nurse , when life Begins to fail you ! -- take a wife ; Believe me , from the mind's disease ...
... feel vexation About your neighbours , -or the nation ; The gout in fingers or in toes Awakes you from your first repose ; You'll want a clever Nurse , when life Begins to fail you ! -- take a wife ; Believe me , from the mind's disease ...
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Page 183 - As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord.
Page 369 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.
Page 184 - By four cherubic shapes ; four faces each Had wondrous ; as with stars their bodies all, And wings, were set with eyes, with eyes the wheels Of beryl, and careering fires between ; Over their heads a crystal firmament, Whereon a sapphire throne, inlaid with pure Amber, and colours of the showery arch.
Page 219 - Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water.
Page 64 - With head up-raised, and look intent, And eye and ear attentive bent, And locks flung back, and lips apart, Like monument of Grecian art, In listening mood, she seemed to stand The guardian Naiad of the strand.
Page 183 - He bowed the heavens also, and came down : and darkness was under His feet. And He rode upon a cherub, and did fly : yea, He did fly upon the wings of the wind.
Page 84 - And it's oh! dear! what can the matter be? Dear! dear! what can the matter be?
Page 183 - And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, \ saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.
Page 14 - I love thee, Twilight ! as thy shadows roll, The calm of evening steals upon my soul. Sublimely tender, solemnly serene. Still as the hour, enchanting as the scene. I love thee. Twilight ! for thy gleams impart Their dear, their dying influence to my heart, When o'er the harp of thought thy passing wind Awakens all the music of the mind, And Joy and Sorrow, as the spirit burns. And Hope and Memory sweep the chords by turns, While Contemplation, on seraphic wings.
Page 183 - The springs of waters were seen, and the foundations of the round world were discovered, at thy chiding, O Lord : at the blasting of the breath of thy displeasure.