Literary Leaves; Or, Prose and Verse Chiefly Written in India, 1. köideW.H. Allen & Company, 1840 |
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... SCENE ON THE GANGES , 135 SONNET - LADY , IF FROM MY YOUNG BUT CLOUDED BROW , ETC. ib . · MORNING , 136 EVENING , 137 SONNET - SUNSET , THE DAY OF LIFE , SONNET - TO NETLEY ABBEY , TWO LANDSCAPES - ENGLISH AND INDIAN , STANZAS TO A ...
... SCENE ON THE GANGES , 135 SONNET - LADY , IF FROM MY YOUNG BUT CLOUDED BROW , ETC. ib . · MORNING , 136 EVENING , 137 SONNET - SUNSET , THE DAY OF LIFE , SONNET - TO NETLEY ABBEY , TWO LANDSCAPES - ENGLISH AND INDIAN , STANZAS TO A ...
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... scenes of his earthly pilgrimage , glori- fied by his halo of eternal fame , he would be almost worshipped as a god . Mankind would prostrate themselves at his feet . There is something so ethereal in the associations connected with ...
... scenes of his earthly pilgrimage , glori- fied by his halo of eternal fame , he would be almost worshipped as a god . Mankind would prostrate themselves at his feet . There is something so ethereal in the associations connected with ...
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... scene ! How swells the gazer's heart ! -The mighty main Heaves its stupendous mountains to the sky , Their sides unruffled by the fretful waves Of less terrific seas . The billows form Moving Atlantic Alps , whose peaks alone D Are ...
... scene ! How swells the gazer's heart ! -The mighty main Heaves its stupendous mountains to the sky , Their sides unruffled by the fretful waves Of less terrific seas . The billows form Moving Atlantic Alps , whose peaks alone D Are ...
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... scene ! The wide blue floor Of the Atlantic world - a sky - girt plain- Now looks as never more the Tempest's tread Would break its shining surface ; and the ship Seems destined ne'er again to brave the gale , Anchored for ever on the ...
... scene ! The wide blue floor Of the Atlantic world - a sky - girt plain- Now looks as never more the Tempest's tread Would break its shining surface ; and the ship Seems destined ne'er again to brave the gale , Anchored for ever on the ...
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... scene is changed - behind the ethereal mount Now fringed with light — the day - god downward speeds His unseen way ; -yet where his kindling steps Lit the blue vault , the radiant trace remains , E'en as the sacred memory of the past ...
... scene is changed - behind the ethereal mount Now fringed with light — the day - god downward speeds His unseen way ; -yet where his kindling steps Lit the blue vault , the radiant trace remains , E'en as the sacred memory of the past ...
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admiration alluded amongst Anna Seward Atossa beauty Bolingbroke breath bright calm Chalkhill character Charlotte Smith charm cheerful Clearchus clouds conversation critics D'Israeli dear death delightful dreams Dryden Duchess of Marlborough E'en Earl of Marchmont egotism egotist external face fair fame fancy feeling friendship genius gleam glorious glory happy harmony hath heart Horace Walpole human intellectual John Chalkhill Johnson labour Leigh Hunt less light lines literary look Lord Bolingbroke Lord Byron mankind Marchmont memory Milton mind Montaigne nature never o'er observed once passage passion perhaps Petrarch physiognomy pleasure poem poet poet's poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise prose reader remarks says scene seems Shakspeare silent Sir Egerton Brydges smile sonnet soul sound speak spirit stanza style sweet talk taste Thealma thine thing thou thought tion truth verse voice words writers