The borough, continued. Occasional pieces. The world of dreams. TalesJohn Murray, Albemarle Street, 1834 |
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... light , And shook the curtains round her bed . No cruel uncle kept her land , No tyrant father forced her hand ; She had no vixen virgin - aunt , Without whose aid she could not eat , And yet who poison'd all her meat , With gibe and ...
... light , And shook the curtains round her bed . No cruel uncle kept her land , No tyrant father forced her hand ; She had no vixen virgin - aunt , Without whose aid she could not eat , And yet who poison'd all her meat , With gibe and ...
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... light texture of the introductory part , will , I hope , take off from that idea of sameness , which the repetition of crimes and distresses is likely to create . ( 2 ) The lad's or boy's love , of some counties , is the plant southern ...
... light texture of the introductory part , will , I hope , take off from that idea of sameness , which the repetition of crimes and distresses is likely to create . ( 2 ) The lad's or boy's love , of some counties , is the plant southern ...
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... light o . heaven enjoy'd , " Were not by pain , by agony destroy'd : 66 66 My senses fail not all ; I speak , I pray ; By night my rest , my food I take by day ; " And , as my mind looks cheerful to my end , “ I love mankind , and call ...
... light o . heaven enjoy'd , " Were not by pain , by agony destroy'd : 66 66 My senses fail not all ; I speak , I pray ; By night my rest , my food I take by day ; " And , as my mind looks cheerful to my end , “ I love mankind , and call ...
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... light elastic locks encased his brain : More pliant pupil who could hope to find , So deck'd in person and so changed in mind ? When Abel walked the streets , with pleasant mien He met his friends , delighted to be seen ; And when he ...
... light elastic locks encased his brain : More pliant pupil who could hope to find , So deck'd in person and so changed in mind ? When Abel walked the streets , with pleasant mien He met his friends , delighted to be seen ; And when he ...
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... light to catch ; " His words fell softly like the flakes of snow , " But I could never find my heart o'erflow : " He cried aloud , till in the flock began “ The sigh , the tear , as caught from man to man ; VOL . IV . D " They wept and ...
... light to catch ; " His words fell softly like the flakes of snow , " But I could never find my heart o'erflow : " He cried aloud , till in the flock began “ The sigh , the tear , as caught from man to man ; VOL . IV . D " They wept and ...
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Abel ALBEMARLE STREET Aldborough answer'd antè appear'd aunt beauty behold BOROUGH bosom call'd Castle of Otranto comfort Crabbe Crabbe's cried crime Cymbeline dare deed delight disdain dread dream dull Dunciad Edinburgh Review fair fancy fate father fear fear'd feel felt fill'd fix'd fled foes fond friendly pair gain'd gentle GEORGE CRABBE give gloom grace grave grew grief grieved Gwyn happy heart honour hope hour humble Jonas kind knew labour lady live look look'd Lord lover maid meads of asphodel mind Normanston nymph o'er pain pass'd passion Peter PETER GRIMES pity pleasure poet poor possess'd praise pray'd pride remain'd rest scene scorn seem'd shame sigh sigh'd silent smile sorrow soul speak spirit strong sweet Sybil TALE terror thee thou art thought trembling Twas vex'd widow youth
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Page 135 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Page 37 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Page 48 - Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the playplace of our early days ; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.
Page 225 - I have heard of your paintings too, well enough ; God hath given you one face and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nick-name God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance.
Page 205 - Yes, I am proud ; I must be proud to see Men, not afraid of God, afraid of me ; Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch'd and sham'd by ridicule alone.
Page 10 - I waked one morning in the beginning of last June from a dream, of which all I could recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story) and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate.
Page 107 - The great cause of the present deplorable state of English poetry is to be attributed to that absurd and systematic depreciation of Pope, in which, for the last few years, there has been a kind of epidemical concurrence.
Page 247 - Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 247 - Ah me ! for aught that ever I could read, Could ever hear by tale or history, . The course of true love never did run smooth : J But, either it was different in blood ; — Lys.
Page 10 - I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it...