Specimens of the Lyrical, Descriptive, and Narrative Poets of Great Britain, from Chaucer to the Present Day:: With a Preliminary Sketch of the History of Early English Poetry, and Biographical and Critical Notices,Oliver & Boyd, 1828 - 560 pages |
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Page 127
... hills and fairer valleys . He paints nature , not as we find it , but as we expected to find it , and fulfils the delightful promise of our youth . He waves his wand of enchantment , and at once embodies airy beings , and throws a ...
... hills and fairer valleys . He paints nature , not as we find it , but as we expected to find it , and fulfils the delightful promise of our youth . He waves his wand of enchantment , and at once embodies airy beings , and throws a ...
Page 155
... choicely good . " THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS MISTRESS . COME live with me and be my love , And we will all the pleasures prove , That hills and valleys , dale and field , And MARLOWE . 155 The Passionate Shepherd to his Mistress.
... choicely good . " THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS MISTRESS . COME live with me and be my love , And we will all the pleasures prove , That hills and valleys , dale and field , And MARLOWE . 155 The Passionate Shepherd to his Mistress.
Page 156
... hills and valleys , dale and field , And all the craggy mountains yield . There will we sit upon the rocks , And see the shepherds feed their flocks , By shallow rivers , to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals . There I will make ...
... hills and valleys , dale and field , And all the craggy mountains yield . There will we sit upon the rocks , And see the shepherds feed their flocks , By shallow rivers , to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals . There I will make ...
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... hills her head entombed is : Where , like a virtuous monument , she lies , To be admir'd of lewd unhallow'd eyes . Without the bed her other fair hand was , On the green coverlet ; whose perfect white Show'd like an April daisy on the ...
... hills her head entombed is : Where , like a virtuous monument , she lies , To be admir'd of lewd unhallow'd eyes . Without the bed her other fair hand was , On the green coverlet ; whose perfect white Show'd like an April daisy on the ...
Page 188
... hills of snow Which thy frozen bosom bears , On whose tops the pinks that grow , Are of those that April wears . But first set my poor heart free , Bound in those icy chains by thee . ( a ) SONG . SIGH no more , ladies , sigh no more ...
... hills of snow Which thy frozen bosom bears , On whose tops the pinks that grow , Are of those that April wears . But first set my poor heart free , Bound in those icy chains by thee . ( a ) SONG . SIGH no more , ladies , sigh no more ...
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