Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British and American Authors, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 5Robert Chambers Amer. Book Exchange, 1879 - English literature |
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... appeared since the last national struggle for civil and religious liberty . The most unfailing herald , companion , and fol- lower of the awakening of a great people to work a beneficial change in opinion or institution , is poetry . At ...
... appeared since the last national struggle for civil and religious liberty . The most unfailing herald , companion , and fol- lower of the awakening of a great people to work a beneficial change in opinion or institution , is poetry . At ...
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... appearing at the bar of the House of Lords , plunged him in the deepest misery and distress . The seeds of insanity ... appeared in a volume of poems published in 1782. The sale of the work was slow ; but his friends were eager in its ...
... appearing at the bar of the House of Lords , plunged him in the deepest misery and distress . The seeds of insanity ... appeared in a volume of poems published in 1782. The sale of the work was slow ; but his friends were eager in its ...
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... appeared in 1791 , in two volumes quarto . In the interval the poet and Mrs. Unwin had removed to Weston , a beautiful village about a mile from Olney . His cousin , Lady Hes- keth , a woman of refined and fascinating manners , had ...
... appeared in 1791 , in two volumes quarto . In the interval the poet and Mrs. Unwin had removed to Weston , a beautiful village about a mile from Olney . His cousin , Lady Hes- keth , a woman of refined and fascinating manners , had ...
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... appeared , And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard ; To carry nature lengths unknown before , To give a Milton birth asked ages more . Thus genius rose and set at ordered times , And shot a day - spring into distant climes , Ennobling ...
... appeared , And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard ; To carry nature lengths unknown before , To give a Milton birth asked ages more . Thus genius rose and set at ordered times , And shot a day - spring into distant climes , Ennobling ...
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... appeared in 1803 , and three years afterwards it was enlarged by a supplement . Hayley prepared memoirs of his own life , which he disposed of to a publisher on condition of his receiving an annuity for the remainder of his life . This ...
... appeared in 1803 , and three years afterwards it was enlarged by a supplement . Hayley prepared memoirs of his own life , which he disposed of to a publisher on condition of his receiving an annuity for the remainder of his life . This ...
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Page 292 - Away! away! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy, Though the dull brain perplexes and retards: Already with thee! tender is the night, And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne, Clustered around by all her starry Fays...
Page 262 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, — roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin, — his control Stops with the shore; — upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
Page 156 - Nor dim nor red, like God's own head, The glorious Sun uprist: Then all averred, I had killed the bird That brought the fog and mist.
Page 156 - He struck with his o'ertaking wings And chased us south along. With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled. And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold: And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald.
Page 159 - They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose, Nor spake, nor moved their eyes ; It had been strange, even in a dream, To have seen those dead men rise. The helmsman steered, the ship moved on; Yet never a breeze...
Page 324 - ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold: Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?" The vision raised its head, And, with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord.
Page 279 - What thou art we know not: What is most like thee? From rainbow clouds there flow not drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a poet hidden in the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not.
Page 156 - And I had done a hellish thing. And it would work 'em woe: For all averred. I had killed the bird That made the breeze to blow.
Page 16 - With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me; Voice only fails, else how distinct they say, "Grieve not, my child, chase all thy fears away!
Page 138 - Once again I see These hedge-rows, hardly hedge-rows, little lines Of sportive wood run wild : these pastoral farms. Green to the very door; and wreaths of smoke Sent up, in silence, from among the trees ! With some uncertain notice, as might seem Of vagrant Dwellers in the houseless woods, Or of some Hermit's cave, where by his fire The Hermit sits alone.