Virgil in English Rhythm: With Illustrations from the British Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper |
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... breast , My feet to travel , and my eyes to weep . " iii . 1 . Goldsmith feelingly alludes to the miseries of exile : " Have we not seen , at pleasure's lordly call , The smiling , long - frequented village fall ? Beheld the duteous son ...
... breast , My feet to travel , and my eyes to weep . " iii . 1 . Goldsmith feelingly alludes to the miseries of exile : " Have we not seen , at pleasure's lordly call , The smiling , long - frequented village fall ? Beheld the duteous son ...
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... breast , To soften rocks , or bend a knotted oak . I've read that things inanimate have moved , And , as with living souls , have been informed By magic numbers and persuasive sound . " Congreve , The Mourning Bride , I. i . 1-5 . Hear ...
... breast , To soften rocks , or bend a knotted oak . I've read that things inanimate have moved , And , as with living souls , have been informed By magic numbers and persuasive sound . " Congreve , The Mourning Bride , I. i . 1-5 . Hear ...
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... breast ; Nor shrieking owl nor bat thy tomb fly round , Nor midnight goblins revel o'er the ground . " Past . 3 . " But since that I shal die her slauve , Her slauve , and eke her thrall : Write you , my frendes , upon my grauve This ...
... breast ; Nor shrieking owl nor bat thy tomb fly round , Nor midnight goblins revel o'er the ground . " Past . 3 . " But since that I shal die her slauve , Her slauve , and eke her thrall : Write you , my frendes , upon my grauve This ...
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... breasts Now different emotions - different , So long as wind was driving on the clouds- Conceive hence [ springs ] that symphony : of birds 580 554. In his magnificent description of the Cave of Despair , Spenser finely introduces the ...
... breasts Now different emotions - different , So long as wind was driving on the clouds- Conceive hence [ springs ] that symphony : of birds 580 554. In his magnificent description of the Cave of Despair , Spenser finely introduces the ...
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... breast , — Such as within a mountain's hollow vale Ofttimes to look adown on we are wont ; -- Stream hither from the summits of the cliffs The brooks , and trail along enriching slime : - 262 And that which to the southern gale is ...
... breast , — Such as within a mountain's hollow vale Ofttimes to look adown on we are wont ; -- Stream hither from the summits of the cliffs The brooks , and trail along enriching slime : - 262 And that which to the southern gale is ...
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Page 67 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge ; And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst thou, O partial sleep!
Page 204 - Philomel with melody Sing in our sweet lullaby. Lulla, lulla, lullaby; lulla, lulla, lullaby. Never harm Nor spell nor charm Come our lovely lady nigh. So good night, with lullaby.
Page 22 - Weak masters though ye be, I have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green sea and the azured vault Set roaring war...
Page 155 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...
Page 236 - To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Page 270 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 193 - A dungeon horrible on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed ; yet from those flames No light ; but rather darkness visible, Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell ; hope never comes, That comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
Page 203 - Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence.
Page 182 - True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy ; Which is as thin of substance as the air ; And more inconstant than the wind...
Page 40 - To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue, A curse shall light upon the limbs of men; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy...