English poetry, for use in the schools of the Collegiate institution, Liverpool [ed. by W. J. Conybeare].1844 |
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... heard the owl scream , and the crickets cry : Did not you speak ? Macb . When ? Lady . Now . Macb . As I descended ? Lady . Ay . Macb . Hark ! who lies i ' the second chamber ? Lady . Donalbain . Macb . This is a sorry sight . [ Looking ...
... heard the owl scream , and the crickets cry : Did not you speak ? Macb . When ? Lady . Now . Macb . As I descended ? Lady . Ay . Macb . Hark ! who lies i ' the second chamber ? Lady . Donalbain . Macb . This is a sorry sight . [ Looking ...
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... , covering the flood , Under amazement of their hideous change . He called so loud , that all the hollow deep Of hell resounded ! * * * They heard , and were abashed , and up they sprung Upon the wing ; as when men wont to watch 26.
... , covering the flood , Under amazement of their hideous change . He called so loud , that all the hollow deep Of hell resounded ! * * * They heard , and were abashed , and up they sprung Upon the wing ; as when men wont to watch 26.
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... heard As Mammon ended . * The ranged powers Disband ; and , wandering , each his several way Pursues , as inclination or sad choice Leads him perplexed , where he may likeliest find Truce to his restless thoughts , and entertain The ...
... heard As Mammon ended . * The ranged powers Disband ; and , wandering , each his several way Pursues , as inclination or sad choice Leads him perplexed , where he may likeliest find Truce to his restless thoughts , and entertain The ...
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... heard farthest I'll venture ; for my new - enlivened spirits Prompt me ; and they perhaps are not far off . SONG . SWEET Echo , sweetest nymph , that livest unseen Within thy aery shell , By slow Meander's margent green , And in the ...
... heard farthest I'll venture ; for my new - enlivened spirits Prompt me ; and they perhaps are not far off . SONG . SWEET Echo , sweetest nymph , that livest unseen Within thy aery shell , By slow Meander's margent green , And in the ...
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... heard it , but he heeded not Were with his heart , and that was far away : He recked not of the life he lost , nor prize , But where his rude hut by the Danube lay , There were his young barbarians all at play , There was their Dacian ...
... heard it , but he heeded not Were with his heart , and that was far away : He recked not of the life he lost , nor prize , But where his rude hut by the Danube lay , There were his young barbarians all at play , There was their Dacian ...
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Page 27 - They heard, and were abashed, and up they sprung Upon the wing, as when men wont to watch, On duty sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel; Yet to their General's voice they soon obeyed Innumerable.
Page 25 - Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Page 20 - Who was it that thus cried? Why, worthy thane, You do unbend your noble strength, to think So brainsickly of things. Go get some water, And wash this filthy witness from your hand. Why did you bring these daggers from the place? They must lie there: go carry them, and smear The sleepy grooms with blood. Macb. I'll go no more: I am afraid to think what I have done Look on't again I dare not.
Page 55 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Page 58 - This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not.
Page 29 - Commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than Arch-Angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 23 - With that grim ferryman, which poets write of, Unto the kingdom of perpetual night. The first that there did greet my stranger soul, Was my great father-in-law, renowned Warwick; Who cried aloud,— What scourge for perjury Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence...
Page 25 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 18 - Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.
Page 41 - Purification in the old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind: Her face was...