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... sound , at a touch as when Solomon willed Armies of angels that soar , legions of demons that lurk , Man , brute , reptile , fly , -alien of end and of aim , Adverse each from the other heaven - high , hell - deep remov'd , - Should ...
... sound , at a touch as when Solomon willed Armies of angels that soar , legions of demons that lurk , Man , brute , reptile , fly , -alien of end and of aim , Adverse each from the other heaven - high , hell - deep remov'd , - Should ...
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... sound Australian wine : The vintner bless : And only wish ' twere mine to change This weary , stunted , box - tree range For grey Rouen ! With all its picturesque details , The Seine with all its tiny sails , And Saint Ouen ! And tall ...
... sound Australian wine : The vintner bless : And only wish ' twere mine to change This weary , stunted , box - tree range For grey Rouen ! With all its picturesque details , The Seine with all its tiny sails , And Saint Ouen ! And tall ...
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... sound of wind in a ship's rigging . Miss Pike , on the other hand , was not a demonstrative performer ; her touch , musically speaking , was of the arpeggio order ; that is to say , she struck the chords by making one note follow the ...
... sound of wind in a ship's rigging . Miss Pike , on the other hand , was not a demonstrative performer ; her touch , musically speaking , was of the arpeggio order ; that is to say , she struck the chords by making one note follow the ...
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... sounds delightful , softened to the sense , 66 " Shall charm thine ear , and lull thee to repose . " Where I will lead thee death is quite unknown : " Immortal thou , eternal then thy joy ! " What would'st thou more ? Cross thou and ...
... sounds delightful , softened to the sense , 66 " Shall charm thine ear , and lull thee to repose . " Where I will lead thee death is quite unknown : " Immortal thou , eternal then thy joy ! " What would'st thou more ? Cross thou and ...
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... sound reached me - the sense of hearing gone , Pale fear succeeded , and the thickened air Oppressed me so that life seemed ebbing fast . And then I thought ' twas terrible to die— Alone , unwatched , unwept , forsaken thus ; And 30 ...
... sound reached me - the sense of hearing gone , Pale fear succeeded , and the thickened air Oppressed me so that life seemed ebbing fast . And then I thought ' twas terrible to die— Alone , unwatched , unwept , forsaken thus ; And 30 ...
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admiration arms Australian Bacchio Bart von Schinkenstein Basil Moss beauty Bluffins Bob Charlton Brogley Budgeree Cant Cape Horn Champion Bay chief cried daring dark dead dear eyes face fair Farryher father fear feel feet felt fire Flora Charlton followed gave gazed gentleman GEORGE GORDON MCCRAE Ghost girl gold hand Harry head heard heart HENRY KENDALL Isaac Jews Kai Tamaru King knew lady Lake Taupo Laura light looked Marcus mate McDermott McTavish mind Miss Pike mother Muggles never night o'er once ophicleide Paketoi passed poor Prague Princess reader replied Robert Browning round rushed Schloggenbochs shouted sing soul Speckerton squatter stood sweetheart long ago Tamaru Tambaroora tears tell thee there's thing thou thought threw told Tom McDermott Tom Potts took turned warri Whatanidea whilst wife wonder word Wychitella young
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Page 8 - WOULD that the structure brave, the manifold music I build, Bidding my organ obey, calling its keys to their work, Claiming each slave of the sound, at a touch, as when .Solomon willed Armies of angels that soar, legions of demons that lurk, Man, brute, reptile, fly, — alien of end and of aim, Adverse, each from the other heaven-high, hell-deep removed, — Should rush into sight at once as he named the ineffable Name, And pile him a palace straight, to pleasure the princess he loved...
Page 9 - And another would mount and march, like the excellent minion he was. Ay, another and yet another, one crowd but with many a crest, Raising my rampired walls of gold as transparent as glass, Eager to do and die, yield each his place to the rest...
Page 202 - A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ; Survey the whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where Nature moves, and rapture warms the mind; Nor lose for that malignant dull delight, The gen'rous pleasure to be charm'd with wit.
Page 187 - Heaven's influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.
Page 187 - Tis from high life high characters are drawn ; A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn : A judge is just, a chancellor juster still ; A gownman learn'd ; a bishop what you will ; Wise if a minister ; but if a king, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more every thing. Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heaven's influence scarce can penetrate.
Page 201 - Tho' learn'd, well-bred ; and tho' well-bred, sincere, Modestly bold, and humanly severe : Who to a friend his faults can freely show, And .gladly praise the merit of a foe?
Page 201 - Though learn'd, well-bred; and though well-bred, sincere; Modestly bold, and humanly severe; Who to a friend his faults can freely show, And gladly praise the merit of a foe? Blest with a taste exact, yet unconfined; A knowledge both of books and human kind...
Page 9 - And, seeing ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven, Unless you be possess'd with devilish spirits, You cannot but forbear to murder me.
Page 9 - Nature in turn conceived, obeying an impulse as I; And the emulous heaven yearned down, made effort to reach the earth, As the earth had done her best, in my passion, to...
Page 189 - a son of the forest, a man of the backwoods, a dweller in unquiet and uncouth country, and his songs are accordingly saturated with the strange fitful music of waste, broken-up places.