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“ I stop here , ” says Gray , “ not because there are not great beauties in the remainder of this epistle , but because Lydgate , in the three last stanzas of this extract , has touched the very heart - strings of compassion with so ...
“ I stop here , ” says Gray , “ not because there are not great beauties in the remainder of this epistle , but because Lydgate , in the three last stanzas of this extract , has touched the very heart - strings of compassion with so ...
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“ The first time I ever saw Burns , ” says the amiable writer , “ was in Nithsdale . I was then a child , but his looks and his voice cannot well be forgotten ; and while I write this I behold him as distinctly as I did when I stood at ...
“ The first time I ever saw Burns , ” says the amiable writer , “ was in Nithsdale . I was then a child , but his looks and his voice cannot well be forgotten ; and while I write this I behold him as distinctly as I did when I stood at ...
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It is the custom of Scotland to wake ' the body — not with wild howlings and wilder songs , and much waste of strong drink , like our mercurial neighbours , but in silence or in prayer : superstition says it is unsonsie to leave a ...
It is the custom of Scotland to wake ' the body — not with wild howlings and wilder songs , and much waste of strong drink , like our mercurial neighbours , but in silence or in prayer : superstition says it is unsonsie to leave a ...
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... and I may say singular strain of sentiment and feeling which , considering the era and state of civilization in which the poems of Ossian are said to have been produced , so remarkably distinguishes both the perCamoens .
... and I may say singular strain of sentiment and feeling which , considering the era and state of civilization in which the poems of Ossian are said to have been produced , so remarkably distinguishes both the perCamoens .
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... in Os“ It is almost impossible , ” says the author of this attempt , whilst describing Connor ( the ancient Temora ) and its neighbourhood , “ to walk twenty minutes without meeting some rude marks of the warfare of those times .
... in Os“ It is almost impossible , ” says the author of this attempt , whilst describing Connor ( the ancient Temora ) and its neighbourhood , “ to walk twenty minutes without meeting some rude marks of the warfare of those times .
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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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