Timon, and other poems. Also, The compact, a drama, &cPiper, Stephenson, and Spence, 1859 - 254 Seiten |
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Timon, and other poems. Also, The compact, a drama, &c James Henry Powell Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1859 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Bacchus Band of Hope beauty bless Blind Blind Tom breast Brighton Captain SLIX chapel charm cheer Chichester Chieftain child clock clockmaker dear dear father death despair doth dreams Eastbourne eyes Fabian fame fate father fear feel fight for right fortune's freedom's gaze genyes give glory Grafton hand happy Hastings Hath heart Heaven Heloise hesel hope hour JERRY SIMPLE JESSICA Jonas Smart Joshua Pratt Lady KINGSTON Leaden Figure Lewes life's loike magic misery mother NANA SAHIB ne'er never o'er Old Dodham pain passion pon my honour poor Portsmouth pride proud Ranters rich right and home Rutland Hall scenes shame Shoreham Sir Reginald Kingston smiles sorrow soul speak strife strong sweet teetotal temperance movement thee thou thought thro Timon toil truth Twill virtue virtue's voice wealth Westlon Whilst wild wisdom witch wonder young younger Wood
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 1 - AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar; Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pined alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown...
Seite 57 - Ten thousand zealots join the fete, From Europe's distant bounds — The toiling low and wealthy great, Where art her paean sounds. They sing the glowing freedom-strains Of Scotland's Shakespeare, Burns — Swelling harmonious to the plains Where toil its wages earns. The splendour of an Eastern Court, The glory genius owns — • By sculpture's plastic fingers wrought, Look down from marble thrones. They honour Burns — the ploughman bard, Whose life was heir to pain — Who battled, suffer'd,...
Seite 58 - Who read his strains with mirth and tears, And honest-hearted pride. They honour BURNS — yet honour worth, In rustic raiment shown, Diffusing wisdom o'er the earth, And making virtue known. They honour BURNS — yet honour all The poet-kings who gave Their magic themes, at Freedom's call, To elevate the brave. Let rival vices hide in gloom Their hideous aims from men, The world, by stern command of doom, Must bow beneath the pen. The age of merit dawns at last, To sway her potent rod, Veiling the...
Seite 58 - ... jewel-like, are set In caskets wrought by fame — Whose God-form'd genius even yet Shall savage slander tame ! They honour Burns— and win the cheers Of millions scatter'd wide — Who read his strains with mirth and tears, And honest-hearted pride. They honour Burns — yet honour worth, In rustic raiment shown, Diffusing wisdom o'er the earth, And making virtue known. They honour Burns — yet honour all The poet-kings who gave Their magic themes, at freedom's call, To elevate the brave....