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... charm the listening ear , and glowing Pictures to fasci- nate the kindling eye withal . In fine , you shall share much joyaunce and delectation from the costly spoils here garnered from our own and divers other times . Moreover , trusty ...
... charm the listening ear , and glowing Pictures to fasci- nate the kindling eye withal . In fine , you shall share much joyaunce and delectation from the costly spoils here garnered from our own and divers other times . Moreover , trusty ...
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... charm in its very antiquity , as Campbell remarks , " something picturesque in it , -like the moss and ivy on some majestic ruin . ” This noble production of the early English muse , which was probably suggested by the Decameron of ...
... charm in its very antiquity , as Campbell remarks , " something picturesque in it , -like the moss and ivy on some majestic ruin . ” This noble production of the early English muse , which was probably suggested by the Decameron of ...
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... charm of Chaucer consists in his simplicity of detail , combined with dramatic effect , and his love of rural sights and sounds . We find the following estimate of his genius in the British Quarterly Review : " He is , perhaps , the ...
... charm of Chaucer consists in his simplicity of detail , combined with dramatic effect , and his love of rural sights and sounds . We find the following estimate of his genius in the British Quarterly Review : " He is , perhaps , the ...
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... charm about Herbert's poetry , notwithstanding the strange conceits with which it abounds ; as in the following lines , entitled Life : - I made a posie , while the day ran by : Here will I smell my remnant out , and tie My life within ...
... charm about Herbert's poetry , notwithstanding the strange conceits with which it abounds ; as in the following lines , entitled Life : - I made a posie , while the day ran by : Here will I smell my remnant out , and tie My life within ...
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... charms , Repairs her smiles , awakens every grace , And calls forth all the wonders of her face ; Sees by degrees a purer blush arise , And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes . The busy Sylphs surround their darling care , These set ...
... charms , Repairs her smiles , awakens every grace , And calls forth all the wonders of her face ; Sees by degrees a purer blush arise , And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes . The busy Sylphs surround their darling care , These set ...
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Page 315 - His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow; You can hear him swing his heavy sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell, When the evening sun is low.
Page 39 - GOING TO THE WARS Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more.
Page 21 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life ; But that the dread of something after death, — The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, — puzzles the will ; And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of?
Page 220 - Oft in the stilly night Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light Of other days around me: The smiles, the tears Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone, Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken! Thus in the stilly night Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Sad memory brings the light Of other days around me.
Page 44 - You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Page 83 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Page 135 - He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all. And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Page 31 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments : love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O no ; it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests, and is never shaken ; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth 's unknown, although his height be taken.
Page 36 - Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill: But their strong nerves at last must yield; They tame but one another still: Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death.
Page 274 - That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon, Glides glimmering o'er my fleece-like floor, By the midnight breezes strewn ; And wherever the beat of her unseen feet, Which only the angels hear, May have broken the woof of my tent's thin roof, The stars peep behind her and peer...