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“ Canace , condemned to death by Colus her father , sends to her guilty brother Macareus the last testimony of her unhappy passion : “ Out of her swoonè when she did abbraide , Knowing no mean but death in her distresse , To her brother ...
“ Canace , condemned to death by Colus her father , sends to her guilty brother Macareus the last testimony of her unhappy passion : “ Out of her swoonè when she did abbraide , Knowing no mean but death in her distresse , To her brother ...
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On thee and me dependeth the trespace , Touching our guilt and our great offence ; But , welaway ! most angelik of face , Oure childè , young in his pure innocence , Shall agayn right suffer death's violence , Tender of limbes ...
On thee and me dependeth the trespace , Touching our guilt and our great offence ; But , welaway ! most angelik of face , Oure childè , young in his pure innocence , Shall agayn right suffer death's violence , Tender of limbes ...
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... “ Bruce to his Troops , ” and “ The Song of Death , ” effusions warm from the heart , and instinct with all the energy , sublimity , and feeling , which patriotism , religion , and domestic affection could supply .
... “ Bruce to his Troops , ” and “ The Song of Death , ” effusions warm from the heart , and instinct with all the energy , sublimity , and feeling , which patriotism , religion , and domestic affection could supply .
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powers of description , to call to our recollection the poems entitled “ The Death and Dying Words of poor Maillie , ” “ The Auld Farmer's Salutation , " “ The Twa Dogs , " “ Halloween , ” “ The Holy Fair , ” and “ The Brigs of Ayr ...
powers of description , to call to our recollection the poems entitled “ The Death and Dying Words of poor Maillie , ” “ The Auld Farmer's Salutation , " “ The Twa Dogs , " “ Halloween , ” “ The Holy Fair , ” and “ The Brigs of Ayr ...
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And in the narrow house o ' death Let winter round me rave ; And the next flow'rs that deck the spring Bloom on my peaceful grave . Burns , of whom I entertain a vivid and cherished recollection , from having met him more than once ...
And in the narrow house o ' death Let winter round me rave ; And the next flow'rs that deck the spring Bloom on my peaceful grave . Burns , of whom I entertain a vivid and cherished recollection , from having met him more than once ...
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Page 319 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore: his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 84 - And through the chink in the fractured floor Look down, and see a griesly sight ; A vault where the bodies are buried upright ! There, face by face, and hand by hand, The Claphams and Mauleverers stand...
Page 110 - gainst age, and age at youth hath spurn'd : But spurn'd in vain, youth waneth by increasing ; Beauty, strength, and youth, flowers fading been ; Duty, faith, and love, are roots and evergreen. My helmet now shall make a hive for bees ; And lovers...
Page 318 - Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Page 304 - I have been bullied by an usurper ; I have been neglected by a court ; but I will not be dictated to by a subject : your man shan't stand. " ANNE Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery.
Page 313 - There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.
Page 301 - And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places : thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations ; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
Page 319 - A cloudy spot. Down thither prone in flight He speeds, and through the vast ethereal sky Sails between worlds and worlds, with steady wing, Now on the polar...
Page 78 - The History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven, ' stands upon a beautiful curvature of the Wharf, on a level sufficiently elevated to protect it from inundations, and low enough for every purpose of picturesque effect.
Page 30 - It is the practice of the young men of Dumfries to meet in the streets during the hours of remission from labour, and by these means I had an opportunity of witnessing the general solicitude of all ranks and of all ages. His differences with them on...
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| Title | Mornings in Spring: Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Volume 2 Mornings in Spring: Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Nathan Drake |
| Author | Nathan Drake |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1828 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 17 Jan 2007 |
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