Masterpieces of English Literature: Being Typical Selections of British and American Authorship, from Shakespeare to the Present Time; Together with Definitions, Notes, Analyses, and Glossary as an Aid to Systematic Literary Study |
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... eyes were closed , By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed , By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned , By strangers honored , and by strangers mourned . " - POPE . 37. Alliteration is the repetition of the same initial letter of ...
... eyes were closed , By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed , By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned , By strangers honored , and by strangers mourned . " - POPE . 37. Alliteration is the repetition of the same initial letter of ...
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... eyes are red as fire with weep- ing . Third Citizen . There's not a nobler man in Rome than Antony . Fourth Citizen . Now mark him , he begins again to speak . Antony . But yesterday the word of Cæsar might Have stood against the world ...
... eyes are red as fire with weep- ing . Third Citizen . There's not a nobler man in Rome than Antony . Fourth Citizen . Now mark him , he begins again to speak . Antony . But yesterday the word of Cæsar might Have stood against the world ...
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... eyes see no more than one ; or that a gamester seeth always more than a looker - on ; or that a man in anger is as wise as he that hath said over the four and twenty letters ; or that a musket may be shot off as well upon the arm as ...
... eyes see no more than one ; or that a gamester seeth always more than a looker - on ; or that a man in anger is as wise as he that hath said over the four and twenty letters ; or that a musket may be shot off as well upon the arm as ...
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... eyes in endless night . III . Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this hour . ' England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters ; altar , sword , and pen , Fireside , the heroic wealth of hall and bower , Have forfeited ...
... eyes in endless night . III . Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this hour . ' England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters ; altar , sword , and pen , Fireside , the heroic wealth of hall and bower , Have forfeited ...
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... eyes . Hard by , a cottage chimney smokes From betwixt two aged oaks , Where Corydon and Thyrsis met Are at their savory dinner set Of herbs and other country messes , Which the neat - handed Phyllis dresses ; And then in haste her ...
... eyes . Hard by , a cottage chimney smokes From betwixt two aged oaks , Where Corydon and Thyrsis met Are at their savory dinner set Of herbs and other country messes , Which the neat - handed Phyllis dresses ; And then in haste her ...
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Page 345 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Page 296 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. VII. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years
Page 215 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 517 - Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods. [The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices.
Page 50 - 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.
Page 11 - But here's a parchment with the seal of Caesar; I found it in his closet; 'tis his will: Let but the commons hear this testament — Which pardon me, I do not mean to read — And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds And dip their napkins in his sacred blood, Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, ' Bequeathing it as a rich legacy Unto their issue.
Page 503 - Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the crier on his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan, And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, "They are gone.
Page 293 - No more shall grief of mine the season wrong: I hear the echoes through the mountains throng, The winds come to me from the fields of sleep, And all the earth is gay; Land and sea Give themselves up to jollity, And with the heart of May Doth every beast keep holiday; — Thou child of joy...
Page 321 - Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet?— God! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, God!
Page 202 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.