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... thou thy Land , " are treasures of that wisdom with which a poet should enlarge the prac- tice - enthralled aims and views of statesmen . Must we send him to school in his mature age , to learn from him- self the lessons he taught in ...
... thou thy Land , " are treasures of that wisdom with which a poet should enlarge the prac- tice - enthralled aims and views of statesmen . Must we send him to school in his mature age , to learn from him- self the lessons he taught in ...
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... thou be as these are ? Live as they . Unaffrighted by the silence round them , Undistracted by the sights they see , These demand not that the things without them Yield them love , amusement , sympathy . And with joy the stars perform ...
... thou be as these are ? Live as they . Unaffrighted by the silence round them , Undistracted by the sights they see , These demand not that the things without them Yield them love , amusement , sympathy . And with joy the stars perform ...
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... thou thy wife now ? - The axe - who brings it ? The Chorus . ' Tis here ! But thy gesture , thy look , Appals me , shakes me with awe . Merope . Thrust back now the bolt of that door ! The Chorus . Alas ! alas ! - Behold the fastenings ...
... thou thy wife now ? - The axe - who brings it ? The Chorus . ' Tis here ! But thy gesture , thy look , Appals me , shakes me with awe . Merope . Thrust back now the bolt of that door ! The Chorus . Alas ! alas ! - Behold the fastenings ...
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... thou , thou fair - skinn'd Serpent ! thou art laid In a rich chamber , on a happy bed , In a king's house , thy victim's heritage ; And drink'st untroubled slumber , to sleep off The toils of thy foul service , till thou wake Kefresh'd ...
... thou , thou fair - skinn'd Serpent ! thou art laid In a rich chamber , on a happy bed , In a king's house , thy victim's heritage ; And drink'st untroubled slumber , to sleep off The toils of thy foul service , till thou wake Kefresh'd ...
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... thou slay'st- Merope . Arcas . Merope . Ah ! . . . A most just blow . Stand off ! Thy son ! [ She lets the axe drop , and falls insensible . " The remainder of the play rests solely on the fate of Polyphontes . We have in this a true ...
... thou slay'st- Merope . Arcas . Merope . Ah ! . . . A most just blow . Stand off ! Thy son ! [ She lets the axe drop , and falls insensible . " The remainder of the play rests solely on the fate of Polyphontes . We have in this a true ...
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Page 7 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story : The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 459 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Page 7 - COURAGE !" he said, and pointed toward the land, " This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.
Page 372 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Page 7 - The dawn, the dawn,' and died away; And East and West, without a breath, Mixt their dim lights, like life and death, To broaden into boundless day.
Page 7 - Remorsefully regarded thro' his tears, And would have spoken, but he found not words; Then took with care, and kneeling on one knee, O'er both his shoulders drew the languid hands, And rising bore him thro