Lectures on English Poetry: From the Reign of Edward the Third, to the Time of Burns and Cowper, Delivered at the Russell Institution, in 1827; with Miscellaneous Tales and Poems; Being the Literary Remains of the Late Henry NeeleSmith, Elder & Company, 1830 - 543 Seiten |
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... returned , when a man was hanged for being able to write his own name , instead of having a mark to himself like an honest , plain - dealing citizen ; and when the nobility were proscribed as national enemies , because , as it was said ...
... returned , when a man was hanged for being able to write his own name , instead of having a mark to himself like an honest , plain - dealing citizen ; and when the nobility were proscribed as national enemies , because , as it was said ...
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... returned the lady Katharine , " I am no longer to be mistress of myself . Thy love , and my Father's protection , were all I wished to form my happiness ; and I am now about to pass under the yoke of a husband , whom I have never seen ...
... returned the lady Katharine , " I am no longer to be mistress of myself . Thy love , and my Father's protection , were all I wished to form my happiness ; and I am now about to pass under the yoke of a husband , whom I have never seen ...
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... returned , equipped for the errand he was about to undertake , " I have consulted my heart ; I have held com- munion with myself ; and I have learned , that it befits not Edward of England to employ force or artifice to achieve the ...
... returned , equipped for the errand he was about to undertake , " I have consulted my heart ; I have held com- munion with myself ; and I have learned , that it befits not Edward of England to employ force or artifice to achieve the ...
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... Queen elect , and endeavoured , by the most delicate attentions , to console her for the neglect of her betrothed Don Pedro . The Queen returned his attentions by a gratitude which was expressed rather TALES , POEMs , etc. 263.
... Queen elect , and endeavoured , by the most delicate attentions , to console her for the neglect of her betrothed Don Pedro . The Queen returned his attentions by a gratitude which was expressed rather TALES , POEMs , etc. 263.
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... returned his attentions by a gratitude which was expressed rather in her eyes , than with her lips ; until at length a more tender feeling by degrees began to pervade the breasts of both ; although they dared scarcely confess it , even ...
... returned his attentions by a gratitude which was expressed rather in her eyes , than with her lips ; until at length a more tender feeling by degrees began to pervade the breasts of both ; although they dared scarcely confess it , even ...
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admiration Author Beaumont and Fletcher beauty behold Ben Jonson Blanche Blanche of Bourbon bosom bright Catiline character Chaucer Comedy Congreve Count of Hainault Count of Trastamare Countess daughter death delight delineation Don Henry Don Pedro Drama elegant English Poetry Epic Epic Poetry exclaimed eyes fair fancy Father fear feeling Fool gazed genius Grandison grave hand heard heart Heaven honour humour Jonson Katharine King Lady Lear length Leonora Leonora Baroni Liege light look Lord Lyrical Maria de Padilla Master merits Milton mind nature Neele never o'er Paradise Lost passion person Poems Poet Poetical possessed Queen racter reign Rinaldo Satire Savona scarcely scenes seemed Servoz Shakspeare shew smile Song sorrow Soul spirit Star Stranger sublimity sweet taste tears thee thine thing thou thought throne tion Trekschuit Trussell Valladolid verses versification voice wonder writers young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 70 - Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water.
Seite 101 - As a sick girl. Ye gods ! it doth amaze me A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.
Seite 202 - Sweet Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die.
Seite 368 - With saintly shout and solemn jubilee. Where the bright Seraphim in burning row Their loud uplifted angel-trumpets blow. And the Cherubic host in thousand quires Touch their immortal harps of golden wires. With those just spirits that wear victorious palms. Hymns devout and holy psalms Singing everlastingly: That we on earth with undiscording voice May rightly answer that melodious noise; As once we did.
Seite 183 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Seite 116 - Sheds itself through the face, As alone there triumphs to the life All the gain, all the good, of the elements
Seite 33 - tis true, this god did shake : His coward lips did from their colour fly ; And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him, and write his speeches in their books, , Alas ! it cried, " Give me some drink, Titinius,
Seite 203 - ... to-night, For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd timber, never gives ; But though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives.
Seite 71 - Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine : Though still some traces of our rustic vein And splay-foot verse remain'd, and will remain.
Seite 91 - A blank, my lord : She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i...