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... star- lings , blackbirds , and thrushes , are sufficiently well known . not to require mention here . They all bear caging well and are sufficiently robust and adaptable as to become favorites , as much for the little trouble they ...
... star- lings , blackbirds , and thrushes , are sufficiently well known . not to require mention here . They all bear caging well and are sufficiently robust and adaptable as to become favorites , as much for the little trouble they ...
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... stars , ' and ' solemn sunsets . ' This has been regarded by some critics as a great deficiency , and they argue therefrom that the author has no idea of dramatic characterization . But I do not think so , because such was not his aim ...
... stars , ' and ' solemn sunsets . ' This has been regarded by some critics as a great deficiency , and they argue therefrom that the author has no idea of dramatic characterization . But I do not think so , because such was not his aim ...
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... stars , with the eye and the soul of a poet ; so looks he at woman's eyes and flowing ringlets , and listens to her musical voice . His love does not spring into vital spontaneity from his moral instincts ; it is not an inspira- tion ...
... stars , with the eye and the soul of a poet ; so looks he at woman's eyes and flowing ringlets , and listens to her musical voice . His love does not spring into vital spontaneity from his moral instincts ; it is not an inspira- tion ...
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... stars , like flowers , into his poetic wreath . Did he make plaintive verses to an old arm - chair , like Eliza Cook , or describe with minute accuracy kitchen utensils like Crabbe , no doubt some whom I have heard decry him would think ...
... stars , like flowers , into his poetic wreath . Did he make plaintive verses to an old arm - chair , like Eliza Cook , or describe with minute accuracy kitchen utensils like Crabbe , no doubt some whom I have heard decry him would think ...
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... stars . Mr. Smith wooes the seas and stars with an especial fondness , and cultivates their com- panionship with especial rapture . He is never tired talking about them . Mr. Lewis , in the Leader , has called him ' the laureate of the ...
... stars . Mr. Smith wooes the seas and stars with an especial fondness , and cultivates their com- panionship with especial rapture . He is never tired talking about them . Mr. Lewis , in the Leader , has called him ' the laureate of the ...
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Page 133 - In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam warm and bright; Above, the spectral glaciers shone, And from his lips escaped a groan, Excelsior! "Try not the pass!
Page 205 - One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime.
Page 168 - ... rapidity. He repeats the tune' taught him by his master, though of considerable length, fully and faithfully. He runs over the quiverings of the canary, and the clear whistlings of the Virginia nightingale or red-bird, with such superior execution and effect, that the mortified songsters feel their own inferiority, and become altogether silent, while he seems to triumph in their defeat, by redoubling his exertions.
Page 63 - Little deeds of kindness, Little words of love, Make our earth an Eden, Like the heaven above.
Page 40 - To the last point of vision, and beyond, Mount, daring warbler! that love-prompted strain, 'Twixt thee and thine a never-failing bond, Thrills not the less the bosom of the plain: Yet might'st thou seem, proud privilege! to sing All independent of the leafy spring.
Page 133 - The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior...
Page 168 - Bird, which he exquisitely manages, are mingled with the screaming of swallows, or the cackling of hens ; amidst the simple melody of the...
Page 29 - THE lark is singing in the blinding sky, Hedges are white with May. The bridegroom sea Is toying with the shore, his wedded bride, And, in the fulness of his marriage joy, He decorates her tawny brow with shells, Retires a space, to see how fair she looks, Then proud runs up to kiss her.
Page 166 - ... and even handsome. The ease, elegance and rapidity of his movements, the animation of his eye, and the intelligence he displays in listening and laying up lessons from almost every species of the feathered creation within his hearing, are really surprising, and mark the peculiarity of his genius.
Page 166 - ... dewy morning, while the woods are already vocal with a multitude of warblers, his admirable song rises preeminent over every competitor. The ear can listen to his music alone, to which that of all the others seems a mere accompaniment.