Poets and statesmen: their homes and haunts in the neighbourhood of Eton and WindsorE. P. Williams, Bride Court, Bridge Street, Blackfriars; and Eton College, 1857 - Всего страниц: 272 |
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... on several occasions against the religion of the country . We cannot refrain from giving Milton's own words on this subject : - " It was a rule which I laid down D to myself in those places , never to be the MILTON . 17.
... on several occasions against the religion of the country . We cannot refrain from giving Milton's own words on this subject : - " It was a rule which I laid down D to myself in those places , never to be the MILTON . 17.
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... never to be the first to begin any conversation on religion ; but if any questions were put to me concerning my faith , to declare it without any reserve or fear . " Milton had intended to travel through Greece , but the political news ...
... never to be the first to begin any conversation on religion ; but if any questions were put to me concerning my faith , to declare it without any reserve or fear . " Milton had intended to travel through Greece , but the political news ...
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... never heard the Nymphs to daunt , Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt . There in close covert by some brook , Where no profaner eye may look , Hide me from day's garish eye , While the bee with honied thigh , That at her flowery ...
... never heard the Nymphs to daunt , Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt . There in close covert by some brook , Where no profaner eye may look , Hide me from day's garish eye , While the bee with honied thigh , That at her flowery ...
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... never received parish relief . Five alms - houses were erected by the Judge : the central one is a little higher than the others , and into its wall a stone is fixed , on which is the following brief , but rather singular inscrip- tion ...
... never received parish relief . Five alms - houses were erected by the Judge : the central one is a little higher than the others , and into its wall a stone is fixed , on which is the following brief , but rather singular inscrip- tion ...
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... never dream Upon Parnassus , nor did taste the stream Of Helicon we therefore may suppose Those made not poets , but the poets those . And as courts make not kings , but kings the court , So , where the Muses and their train resort ...
... never dream Upon Parnassus , nor did taste the stream Of Helicon we therefore may suppose Those made not poets , but the poets those . And as courts make not kings , but kings the court , So , where the Muses and their train resort ...
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Стр. 183 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Стр. 39 - And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Стр. 38 - And when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown, that Sylvan loves, Of pine or monumental oak...
Стр. 28 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek ; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Стр. 33 - But hail, thou goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended...
Стр. 36 - Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine ; Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskin'd stage.
Стр. 30 - Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks...
Стр. 183 - Little did I dream, when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom...
Стр. 61 - Thou dost drink, and dance, and sing, Happier than the happiest king ! All the fields which thou dost see, All the plants belong to thee : All that summer hours produce, Fertile made with early juice. Man for thee does sow and plough, Farmer he, and landlord thou ! Thou dost innocently enjoy, Nor does thy luxury destroy.
Стр. 116 - The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made ; Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.