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... thee here ? Who hath lured thee from thy sphere ? How they've humbled thee , proud bird , Chained thee fast to once spurned earth , Wings that lashed the winds untired , Now to thee are nothing worth . When thou view'st thy sphere , the ...
... thee here ? Who hath lured thee from thy sphere ? How they've humbled thee , proud bird , Chained thee fast to once spurned earth , Wings that lashed the winds untired , Now to thee are nothing worth . When thou view'st thy sphere , the ...
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... thee above the cloud , Where beneath rolled thunders loud , Thou wert feared by all below , Dreadful wert thou to ... thee , have soared on high , And could once the world defy : To whom once the menial crowd , With obsequious rev'rence ...
... thee above the cloud , Where beneath rolled thunders loud , Thou wert feared by all below , Dreadful wert thou to ... thee , have soared on high , And could once the world defy : To whom once the menial crowd , With obsequious rev'rence ...
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... thee to enliven all their days . May they with fondness watch thy youth's career , Thy first attempts to speak with transport hear , With tender looks watch thy attempts to run , And guard thee from the dangers thou should'st shun . To thee ...
... thee to enliven all their days . May they with fondness watch thy youth's career , Thy first attempts to speak with transport hear , With tender looks watch thy attempts to run , And guard thee from the dangers thou should'st shun . To thee ...
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... thee now ; Respected art thou by thy children dear , And honoured every where thou dost appear . The poor man blesses thee , his best of friends , For thee a thousand prayers to heaven he sends ; Thou fearest not to yield thy latest ...
... thee now ; Respected art thou by thy children dear , And honoured every where thou dost appear . The poor man blesses thee , his best of friends , For thee a thousand prayers to heaven he sends ; Thou fearest not to yield thy latest ...
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... thee dispelled and driven thro ' the air . Oh , what should I have been were't not for thee ? The miserable slave of doubt and fear ! What done , if thou hadst not supported me ? The fiend Remorse would now my heart - strings tear ...
... thee dispelled and driven thro ' the air . Oh , what should I have been were't not for thee ? The miserable slave of doubt and fear ! What done , if thou hadst not supported me ? The fiend Remorse would now my heart - strings tear ...
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Страница 156 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, that never a hall such a galliard did grace; while her mother did fret, and her father did fume. and the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume ; and the bride-maidens whispered, "Twere better by far to have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
Страница 153 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, but above shall grow In its next verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valour, rolling on the foe And burning with high hope shall moulder cold and low.
Страница 59 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention ; or a shop, for profit, or sale ; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate.
Страница 152 - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blush'd at the praise of their own loveliness ; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs, Which ne'er might be repeated...
Страница 156 - The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
Страница 159 - Place me on Sunium's marbled steep — Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die : A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine — Dash down yon cup of Samian wine ! LXXXVH.
Страница 15 - ... twere the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now, this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one must, in your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Страница 16 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Страница 151 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men...
Страница 161 - And shake him from thee ; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction, thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies. And send'st him, shivering, in thy playful spray, And howling, to his gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth : there let him lay.