Poetry for Schools: Designed for Reading and Recitation : the Whole Selected from the Best Poets in the English LanguageW.E. Dean, 1842 - 348 páginas |
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... kings in Europe , gave their kingdoms to his brothers ; and who , having slain his thousands and tens of thousands , devised and effected practical improvements in the con- dition of living men , was eminently a man of genius — though ...
... kings in Europe , gave their kingdoms to his brothers ; and who , having slain his thousands and tens of thousands , devised and effected practical improvements in the con- dition of living men , was eminently a man of genius — though ...
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... King of intimate delights , Fire - side enjoyments , homeborn happiness " — and has introduced him in a very picturesque description : thus , " O Winter , ruler of the inverted year , Thy scattered hair with sleet like ashes filled ...
... King of intimate delights , Fire - side enjoyments , homeborn happiness " — and has introduced him in a very picturesque description : thus , " O Winter , ruler of the inverted year , Thy scattered hair with sleet like ashes filled ...
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... King , and commanded an expedition against Guiana , in South America . In this enterprise he was unsuccessful , though he committed some depredations upon the Spaniards who were in possession of the country . On his return to England he ...
... King , and commanded an expedition against Guiana , in South America . In this enterprise he was unsuccessful , though he committed some depredations upon the Spaniards who were in possession of the country . On his return to England he ...
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... kings and queens , that had of yore Their sceptres stretcht from east to western shore , And all the world in their subjection held ; Till that infernal fiend with foul uproar Forewasted all their land and them expelled : Whom to avenge ...
... kings and queens , that had of yore Their sceptres stretcht from east to western shore , And all the world in their subjection held ; Till that infernal fiend with foul uproar Forewasted all their land and them expelled : Whom to avenge ...
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... king of forests all , The Aspen good for staves , the Cypress funeral . The Laurel , meed of mighty conquerors And poets sage , the Fir that weepeth still , The Willow , worn of forlorn paramours , The Yew , obedient to the bender's ...
... king of forests all , The Aspen good for staves , the Cypress funeral . The Laurel , meed of mighty conquerors And poets sage , the Fir that weepeth still , The Willow , worn of forlorn paramours , The Yew , obedient to the bender's ...
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Página 248 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms, — the day Battle's...
Página 31 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Página 56 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Página 247 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark!
Página 300 - Twas autumn, and sunshine arose on the way To the home of my fathers, that welcomed me back. I flew to the pleasant fields traversed so oft In life's morning march, when my bosom was young ; I heard my own mountain-goats bleating aloft, And knew the sweet strain that the corn-reapers sung.
Página 248 - Gathering" rose! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard ; and heard, too, have her Saxon foes : — How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill ! But with the breath which fills Their mountain-pipe, so fill the mountaineers With the fierce native daring which instils The stirring memory of a thousand years, And Evan's, Donald's fame rings in each clansman's ears...
Página 48 - Eugh, obedient to the benders will ; The Birch for shaftes ; the Sallow for the mill ; The Mirrhe sweete-bleeding in the bitter wound ; The warlike Beech ; the Ash for nothing ill ; The fruitful! Olive ; and the Platane round ; The carver Holme ; the Maple seeldom inward sound.
Página 248 - ... mounting in hot haste : the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While thronged the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips, — "The foe! They come! They come!
Página 300 - By the wolf-scaring faggot that guarded the slain, At the dead of the night a sweet Vision I saw; And thrice ere the morning I dreamt it again.
Página 84 - Henceforth I learn that to obey is best, And love with fear the only God, to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend...