The Works in Verse and ProseJ. Belcher., 1812 - 464 страница |
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... muse , it is far otherwise . Although some of his writings are but the moderate efforts of boyhood , ' or the subsequent effects of casual and careless exertion ; many of them are the legitimate and in- disputable heirs of immortality ...
... muse , it is far otherwise . Although some of his writings are but the moderate efforts of boyhood , ' or the subsequent effects of casual and careless exertion ; many of them are the legitimate and in- disputable heirs of immortality ...
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... muses . He at that time reigned laureat of the class . Paine , however , fearlessly attacked him in return . This anecdote the writer had from Mr. Paine the last summer , on asking him the occasion of his first attempt to rhyme . He ...
... muses . He at that time reigned laureat of the class . Paine , however , fearlessly attacked him in return . This anecdote the writer had from Mr. Paine the last summer , on asking him the occasion of his first attempt to rhyme . He ...
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... Muses fled their blest abode . Frail was their ark , the heaven - topped seas to brave , The wind their compass , and their helm the wave ; No port to cheer them , and no star to guide , From clime to clime they roved the billowy tide ...
... Muses fled their blest abode . Frail was their ark , the heaven - topped seas to brave , The wind their compass , and their helm the wave ; No port to cheer them , and no star to guide , From clime to clime they roved the billowy tide ...
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... and the miser , have , perhaps , never been equalled . The apostrophe to poetry is written in the sublimest strain of poetry and pathos . Fearing it might be his own " Horrid Fate ! the living Muse to see , xliv BIOGRAPHY .
... and the miser , have , perhaps , never been equalled . The apostrophe to poetry is written in the sublimest strain of poetry and pathos . Fearing it might be his own " Horrid Fate ! the living Muse to see , xliv BIOGRAPHY .
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Robert Treat Paine. " Horrid Fate ! the living Muse to see , Bound to the mouldering corpse of Penury ; " about two years after writing this poem , he bade farewell to the muses ; and for eighteen or twenty months , entirely neglected ...
Robert Treat Paine. " Horrid Fate ! the living Muse to see , Bound to the mouldering corpse of Penury ; " about two years after writing this poem , he bade farewell to the muses ; and for eighteen or twenty months , entirely neglected ...
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Страница 306 - tis a common proof That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face : But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend : so Caesar may ; Then, lest he may, prevent.
Страница 233 - Should the tempest of war overshadow our land, Its bolts could ne'er rend freedom's temple asunder; For, unmoved, at its portal would Washington stand. And repulse, with his breast, the assaults of the thuuder ! His sword from the sleep Of its scabbard would leap, And conduct, with its point, every flash to the deep ! For ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant or the sea rolls its waves.
Страница 231 - Mid the reign of mild peace, May your nation increase, With the glory of Rome, and the wisdom of Greece ; And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.
Страница lxxiv - To all the blest above; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky.
Страница 233 - Leonidas' band, And swear to the God of the ocean and land, That ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.