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... dead , This praise shall dare to claim ? " Then rose that British bard , and said , " 6 King Arthur is his name . " " What sceptre grasped King Arthur's hand ? " " The sceptre of this Isle . " " What nations bled beneath his brand ...
... dead , This praise shall dare to claim ? " Then rose that British bard , and said , " 6 King Arthur is his name . " " What sceptre grasped King Arthur's hand ? " " The sceptre of this Isle . " " What nations bled beneath his brand ...
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... dead , till noontide thou Shalt fill my royal seat ! " Away the massive lid they rolled- Alas ! What found they there ? No kingly brow , no shapely mold ; But dust where such things were . Ashes o'er ashes , fold on fold , And one ...
... dead , till noontide thou Shalt fill my royal seat ! " Away the massive lid they rolled- Alas ! What found they there ? No kingly brow , no shapely mold ; But dust where such things were . Ashes o'er ashes , fold on fold , And one ...
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... dead : Therefore I will be sudden and dispatch . Arth . Are you sick , Hubert ? you look pale to- day : In sooth , ' I would you were a little sick , That I might sit all night and watch with you : I warrant I love you more than you do ...
... dead : Therefore I will be sudden and dispatch . Arth . Are you sick , Hubert ? you look pale to- day : In sooth , ' I would you were a little sick , That I might sit all night and watch with you : I warrant I love you more than you do ...
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... dead with grief , 1 Boisterous was used much more variously thanat present ; as a common antithesis to gentle , and so for rough , rude , vio- lent , etc. Being create for comfort , to be used In undeserved 40 CORRECT AND EFFECTIVE ...
... dead with grief , 1 Boisterous was used much more variously thanat present ; as a common antithesis to gentle , and so for rough , rude , vio- lent , etc. Being create for comfort , to be used In undeserved 40 CORRECT AND EFFECTIVE ...
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... dead ; I'll fill these doggèd spies with false reports : 1 Extremities , or extreme severities , that are unmerited . Johnson paraphrases the passage as follows : " The fire , being created not to hurt , but to comfort , is dead with ...
... dead ; I'll fill these doggèd spies with false reports : 1 Extremities , or extreme severities , that are unmerited . Johnson paraphrases the passage as follows : " The fire , being created not to hurt , but to comfort , is dead with ...
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Page 110 - Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken, "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store, Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore: Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore Of 'Never — nevermore.
Page 34 - On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow ; And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Page 95 - Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new. Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.
Page 53 - I will ask him for my place again; he shall tell me I am a drunkard! Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast! O strange! Every inordinate cup is unblessed and the ingredient is a devil.
Page 235 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, . ' Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Page 216 - And keep it safe and sound. . Each bottle had a curling ear, Through which the belt he drew, And hung a bottle on each side To make his balance true. Then over all, that he might be Equipped from top to toe, His long red cloak well brush'd and neat He manfully did throw.
Page 221 - The youth did ride, and soon did meet / John coming back amain, Whom in a trice he tried to stop By catching at his rein ; But not performing what he meant, And gladly would have done, The frighted steed he frighted more, And made him faster run.
Page 217 - Away went hat and wig ; He little dreamt when he set out Of running such a rig. The wind did blow, the cloak did fly, Like streamer long and gay, Till, loop and button failing both, At last it flew away. Then might all people well discern The bottles he had slung ; A bottle swinging at each side, As hath been said or sung. The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all ; And every soul cried out : ' Well done !
Page 106 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and. curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " "Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.
Page 94 - This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main, — The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair.