The Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, Volume 4J. Murray, 1834 |
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... moving in my way , And heard the language and beheld the lives Of lass and lover , goddesses and wives , That books , which promise much of life to give , Should show so little how we truly live . ( 1 ) To me it seems , their females ...
... moving in my way , And heard the language and beheld the lives Of lass and lover , goddesses and wives , That books , which promise much of life to give , Should show so little how we truly live . ( 1 ) To me it seems , their females ...
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... move his frame , But murmuring spake - while they could see and hear The start of terror and the groan of fear ; See the large dew - beads on his forehead rise , And the cold death - drop glaze his sunken eyes , VOL . IV . E Nor yet he ...
... move his frame , But murmuring spake - while they could see and hear The start of terror and the groan of fear ; See the large dew - beads on his forehead rise , And the cold death - drop glaze his sunken eyes , VOL . IV . E Nor yet he ...
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... move , But touch not his , who every waking hour Has one fix'd dread , and always feels its power . " But will not Mercy ? " - No ! she cannot plead For such an outrage ; -'twas a cruel deed : He stopp'd a timid traveller ; —to his ...
... move , But touch not his , who every waking hour Has one fix'd dread , and always feels its power . " But will not Mercy ? " - No ! she cannot plead For such an outrage ; -'twas a cruel deed : He stopp'd a timid traveller ; —to his ...
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... On vulgar lads he wastes superior parts . Alas ! what grief that feeling mind sustains , In guiding hands and stirring torpid brains ; VOL . IV . G He whose proud mind from pole to pole will move LETTER XXIV . 81 SCHOOLS .
... On vulgar lads he wastes superior parts . Alas ! what grief that feeling mind sustains , In guiding hands and stirring torpid brains ; VOL . IV . G He whose proud mind from pole to pole will move LETTER XXIV . 81 SCHOOLS .
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... move , And view the wonders of the worlds above ; Who thinks and reasons strongly : -hard his fate , Confined for ever to the pen and slate : True , he submits , and when the long dull day Has slowly pass'd , in weary tasks , away , To ...
... move , And view the wonders of the worlds above ; Who thinks and reasons strongly : -hard his fate , Confined for ever to the pen and slate : True , he submits , and when the long dull day Has slowly pass'd , in weary tasks , away , To ...
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Page 241 - 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 171 - 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 261 - 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 48 - I fix'd my eyes On the mid stream and saw the spirits rise: I saw my father on the water stand, And hold a thin pale boy in either hand; And there they glided ghastly on the top Of the salt flood, and never touch 'da drop: I would have struck them, but they knew th' intent, And smiled upon the oar, and down they went.
Page 143 - 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 283 - 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 84 - 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 283 - 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 6 - In the evening 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— add, that I was very glad to think of anything, rather than politics.
Page 85 - That, viewing it, we seem almost to obtain Our innocent sweet simple years again. This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life's long race, Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e'en in age, and at our latest day.