The Poems of Winthrop Mackworth Praed: With a Memoir by Derwent ColeridgeE. Moxon, 1874 |
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... fond during the whole of his life , and soon became a very good player . He also amused himself with the composition of short dramas , too unripe , as may well be supposed , for publication , but in which he already displayed that ...
... fond during the whole of his life , and soon became a very good player . He also amused himself with the composition of short dramas , too unripe , as may well be supposed , for publication , but in which he already displayed that ...
Page xxiv
... fond of whist , and played very well . It was not till the last year of his Eton life that he entered the Debating Society , of which he at once became a distinguished member . One other circumstance remains to be recorded or which he ...
... fond of whist , and played very well . It was not till the last year of his Eton life that he entered the Debating Society , of which he at once became a distinguished member . One other circumstance remains to be recorded or which he ...
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... Fond of his jest and fond of his can , But never over - wise ; And once , when his cups had been many and deep , He met with a dragon fast asleep , — ' Twas a Fairy in disguise . In a dragon's form she had ridden the storm , The realm ...
... Fond of his jest and fond of his can , But never over - wise ; And once , when his cups had been many and deep , He met with a dragon fast asleep , — ' Twas a Fairy in disguise . In a dragon's form she had ridden the storm , The realm ...
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... fond conception and joy of both , So that you might , that hour , be loth To change for Some one's sweetest kiss Thy vision of unenduring bliss , Or lose for Some one's sweetest tone The murmur thou drinkest all alone- If such a vision ...
... fond conception and joy of both , So that you might , that hour , be loth To change for Some one's sweetest kiss Thy vision of unenduring bliss , Or lose for Some one's sweetest tone The murmur thou drinkest all alone- If such a vision ...
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... fond embraces , But who hath seen in your resting places Nonny nonny ! —your beautiful faces ? " A moment ! and the Dragon came Crouching down to the peerless dame , With his fierce red eye so fondly shining , And his terrible tail so ...
... fond embraces , But who hath seen in your resting places Nonny nonny ! —your beautiful faces ? " A moment ! and the Dragon came Crouching down to the peerless dame , With his fierce red eye so fondly shining , And his terrible tail so ...
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Abbess beauteous beauty beneath blessed bliss bower breath bright brow CANTO charm cheek cold Count Otto courser dance dark dear DERWENT COLERIDGE Dragon dream earth Eton Etonian eyes faded fair Fair Lady fairy fancy fat friars father fears flings flowers fond frown gaze grave grief hand hath hear heard heart heaven Helen Henry Nelson Coleridge hope hopes and fears John Moultrie King Arthur Knight Lady laugh light lips lonely look Lord Lurley lute maiden Minstrel mirth murmur never o'er pain pale passion poems Praed Praed's praise prayer rhyme rose round sigh silent sleep smile song sorrow soul strange sweet tears tell thee thine thing thou wilt thought to-day to-night toil tone Troubadour Twas verse Vidal voice Walmer Castle wandering weep Whate'er whispered wild WILLIAM SIDNEY WALKER WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED young youth