Rural sketches and poems, chiefly relating to ClevelandSimpkin & Marshall; Edinburgh, W. Tait; Stokesley, W. Braithwaite, Press, 1845 - Cleveland (England) - 80 pages |
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... looks down in sovereignty upon its primi- tive dwellings , and the woods of oak and fir , surround it with their rich summer foliage , and salute its plough- men , evening and morn , with the most enchanting songs of birds ; and even ...
... looks down in sovereignty upon its primi- tive dwellings , and the woods of oak and fir , surround it with their rich summer foliage , and salute its plough- men , evening and morn , with the most enchanting songs of birds ; and even ...
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... look with indifference on mankind . 68 I have not lov'd the world , nor the world me ; I have not flatter'd its rank breath , nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee , Nor coin'd my cheek to smiles , nor cried aloud In worship of an ...
... look with indifference on mankind . 68 I have not lov'd the world , nor the world me ; I have not flatter'd its rank breath , nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee , Nor coin'd my cheek to smiles , nor cried aloud In worship of an ...
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... Look , under that broad beech tree I sat down when I was last this way a fishing ; and the birds in the ad- joining grove seemed to have a friendly contention with an echo , whose dead voice seemed to live in a hollow tree near to the ...
... Look , under that broad beech tree I sat down when I was last this way a fishing ; and the birds in the ad- joining grove seemed to have a friendly contention with an echo , whose dead voice seemed to live in a hollow tree near to the ...
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... look on Marathon And Marathon looks on the sea . " Byron . As do thine ! Grim Champions of Liberty , there ye stand bulwarks of war , and were a million of foemen to march upon England here , these huge fragments of rock would become an ...
... look on Marathon And Marathon looks on the sea . " Byron . As do thine ! Grim Champions of Liberty , there ye stand bulwarks of war , and were a million of foemen to march upon England here , these huge fragments of rock would become an ...
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... look forth on prospects so noble , so magnificent as these ? Yon , my friend , are the old alum works , to which I have alluded elsewhere - this is " Forty - pence " where so often I have followed the Cleveland hounds , and— 66 -Never ...
... look forth on prospects so noble , so magnificent as these ? Yon , my friend , are the old alum works , to which I have alluded elsewhere - this is " Forty - pence " where so often I have followed the Cleveland hounds , and— 66 -Never ...
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Page 103 - The mother, wi' a woman's wiles, can spy What makes the youth sae bashfu' an' sae grave; Weel pleas'd to think her bairn's respected like the lave, IX 0 happy love! where love like this is found; O heart-felt raptures! bliss beyond compare! I've paced much this weary, mortal round, And sage experience bids me this declare, "If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, T is when a youthful, loving, modest pair In other's arms breathe out the tender tale Beneath...
Page 53 - ... hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did...
Page 161 - And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left.
Page 183 - I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chapfallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i
Page 185 - How sleep the Brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!
Page 67 - The torch shall be extinguish'd which hath lit My midnight lamp— and what is writ, is writ; Would it were worthier; but I am not now That which I have been — and my visions flit Less palpably before me — and the glow Which in my spirit dwelt is fluttering, faint, and low.
Page 73 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherits, shall dissolve ; And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind ! we are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.