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... seen Horace talking of his blazing hearth and snug accommodations like the jol- liest of our acquaintances ; and thus we may safely imag- ine that Milton was in some such attitude as I have described , when he sketched that enchanting ...
... seen Horace talking of his blazing hearth and snug accommodations like the jol- liest of our acquaintances ; and thus we may safely imag- ine that Milton was in some such attitude as I have described , when he sketched that enchanting ...
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... seen only by a light beneath the grate , or it curls around one of the bars like a tongue , or darts out with a spiral thinness and a sulphurous and continued puffing as from a reed . The glowing coals meantime exhibit the shifting ...
... seen only by a light beneath the grate , or it curls around one of the bars like a tongue , or darts out with a spiral thinness and a sulphurous and continued puffing as from a reed . The glowing coals meantime exhibit the shifting ...
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... seen , the less the dignity on either side was compromised ; for their effect might be as gigantic as possible . - The truest grandeur is moral . When there is a heaven- quake because Jupiter has bent his brows ; when Apollo comes down ...
... seen , the less the dignity on either side was compromised ; for their effect might be as gigantic as possible . - The truest grandeur is moral . When there is a heaven- quake because Jupiter has bent his brows ; when Apollo comes down ...
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... seen by and by . The ill sense in which demon is now taken , originated with the Fathers of the Church , who , assuming that a pagan intelligence must be a bad one , caused the word to become synonymous with devil . But there are few ...
... seen by and by . The ill sense in which demon is now taken , originated with the Fathers of the Church , who , assuming that a pagan intelligence must be a bad one , caused the word to become synonymous with devil . But there are few ...
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... seen of eye and known quite as much , if not more , through the pleasant fancies of the poets , than the earthier creed of the common people . In Germany , also , the fairy is said to have become a being almost entirely benevolent . But ...
... seen of eye and known quite as much , if not more , through the pleasant fancies of the poets , than the earthier creed of the common people . In Germany , also , the fairy is said to have become a being almost entirely benevolent . But ...
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Page 80 - The Oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving : No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Page 27 - LAWRENCE, of virtuous father virtuous son, Now that the fields are dank, and ways are mire, Where shall we sometimes meet, and by the fire Help waste a sullen day, what may be won From the hard season gaining? Time will run On smoother, till Favonius reinspire The frozen earth, and clothe in fresh attire The lily and rose, that neither sowed nor spun.
Page 359 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it ; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Page 72 - How ill this taper burns ! Ha ! who comes here ? I think it is the weakness of mine eyes, That shapes this monstrous apparition. It comes upon me: —art thou any thing? Art thou some god, some angel, or some devil, That mak'st my blood cold, and my hair to stare ? Speak to me, what thou art.
Page 199 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath. That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 117 - As bees In spring-time, when the Sun with Taurus rides, Pour forth their populous youth about the hive In clusters; they among fresh dews and flowers Fly to and fro, or on the smoothed plank, The suburb of their straw-built citadel, New rubbed with balm, expatiate, and confer Their state affairs: so thick the aery crowd Swarmed and were straitened; till, the signal given, Behold a wonder!
Page 83 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength; And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
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Page 323 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Page 26 - Pronounced, and in his volumes taught, our laws, Which others at their bar so often wrench ; To-day deep thoughts resolve with me to drench In mirth that, after, no repenting draws : Let Euclid rest, and Archimedes pause, And what the Swede intends, and what the French.