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... Heaven's awful thunder , or a rumbling cart ! Peter Pindar ( Dr. Wolcot ) . SIR WALTER SCOTT ON THE POET BURNS . As to Burns , I may truly say , " Virgilium vidi tantum . " I was a lad of fifteen in 1786-7 , when he came first to ...
... Heaven's awful thunder , or a rumbling cart ! Peter Pindar ( Dr. Wolcot ) . SIR WALTER SCOTT ON THE POET BURNS . As to Burns , I may truly say , " Virgilium vidi tantum . " I was a lad of fifteen in 1786-7 , when he came first to ...
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... Heaven , methinks it were an easy leap To pluck bright honour from the pale - faced moon ; Or dive into the bottom of the deep , Where fathom line could never touch the ground And pluck up drowned honour by the locks ; So Literary ...
... Heaven , methinks it were an easy leap To pluck bright honour from the pale - faced moon ; Or dive into the bottom of the deep , Where fathom line could never touch the ground And pluck up drowned honour by the locks ; So Literary ...
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... heaven , shall require of you , it be done speedily . " THE ORTHOGRAPHY OF SHAKSPEARE'S NAME . THERE are but five authenticated signatures of the poet now in existence ; three of which are attached to his will in Doctors ' Commons , and ...
... heaven , shall require of you , it be done speedily . " THE ORTHOGRAPHY OF SHAKSPEARE'S NAME . THERE are but five authenticated signatures of the poet now in existence ; three of which are attached to his will in Doctors ' Commons , and ...
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... Heaven ! that such companions thou'dst unfold ; And put in every honest hand a whip , To lash the rascal naked through the world . " The term wench had not originally its modern low and vulgar signi- fication , but was the appellation ...
... Heaven ! that such companions thou'dst unfold ; And put in every honest hand a whip , To lash the rascal naked through the world . " The term wench had not originally its modern low and vulgar signi- fication , but was the appellation ...
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... heaven or in the sun , and German children tell it in rhyme to fly up thither , mount the chair ( Freyja's throne ) ... heaven , for it states that the angels are crying about it . Lastly , this important little creature is appealed to in ...
... heaven or in the sun , and German children tell it in rhyme to fly up thither , mount the chair ( Freyja's throne ) ... heaven , for it states that the angels are crying about it . Lastly , this important little creature is appealed to in ...
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Page vi - He was the man who, of all modern and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 139 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet...
Page 71 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Page 122 - How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought And simple truth his utmost skill!
Page 132 - GOING TO THE WARS Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more.
Page 103 - Go, lovely Rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows When I resemble her to thee How sweet and fair she seems to be.
Page 23 - Ladybird, Ladybird, fly away home, Your house is on fire, your children will burn.
Page 115 - Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill: But their strong nerves at last must yield; They tame but one another still: Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds; Upon Death's purple altar now See, where the victor-victim bleeds: Your heads must come To the cold tomb; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom...
Page 98 - Fear not to touch the best; The truth shall be thy warrant: Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie. Say to the court, it glows And shines like rotten wood; Say to the church it shows What's good, and doth no good: If church and court reply, Then give them both the lie. Tell potentates, they live Acting by others...
Page 99 - When Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates. And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When I lie tangled in her hair And fetter'd to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.