Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British and American Authors, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volumes 5-6Robert Chambers American Book Exchange, 1880 - American literature |
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... bright hopes of Cowper's youth seemed thus to have all vanished : his prospects of advancement in the world were gone ; and in the new - born zeal of his religious fervour , his friends might well doubt whether his reason had been ...
... bright hopes of Cowper's youth seemed thus to have all vanished : his prospects of advancement in the world were gone ; and in the new - born zeal of his religious fervour , his friends might well doubt whether his reason had been ...
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... bright , Are still more lovely in my sight Than golden beams of orient light , My Mary ! For , could I view nor them nor thee , What sight worth seeing could I see ? The sun would rise in vain for me , My Mary ! Partakers of thy sad ...
... bright , Are still more lovely in my sight Than golden beams of orient light , My Mary ! For , could I view nor them nor thee , What sight worth seeing could I see ? The sun would rise in vain for me , My Mary ! Partakers of thy sad ...
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... bright and clear . ' John Gilpin kissed his loving wife ; O'erjoyed was he to find That , though on pleasure she was bent She had a frugal mind . The morning came , the chaise was brought , But yet was not allowed To drive up to the ...
... bright and clear . ' John Gilpin kissed his loving wife ; O'erjoyed was he to find That , though on pleasure she was bent She had a frugal mind . The morning came , the chaise was brought , But yet was not allowed To drive up to the ...
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... bright and transient as the plants and flowers which formed the subject of his verse . Cow- per praised his ' song ' for its rich embellishments , and said it was as ' strong ' as it was learned and sweet . ' There is a fashion in poe ...
... bright and transient as the plants and flowers which formed the subject of his verse . Cow- per praised his ' song ' for its rich embellishments , and said it was as ' strong ' as it was learned and sweet . ' There is a fashion in poe ...
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... bright blaze thy vermeil vest unfold , And wave thy emerald banner starred with gold . ' Thus spoke the genius as he stept along , And bade these lawns to peace and truth belong ; Down the steep slopes he led with modest skill The ...
... bright blaze thy vermeil vest unfold , And wave thy emerald banner starred with gold . ' Thus spoke the genius as he stept along , And bade these lawns to peace and truth belong ; Down the steep slopes he led with modest skill The ...
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Page 140 - tis her privilege. Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy; for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues. Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.
Page 324 - Nay, not so," Replied the angel. Abou spoke more low, But cheerily still, and said, "I pray thee, then, Write me as one that loves his fellow-men.
Page 158 - The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.
Page 290 - Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory, like a saint: She seemed a splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven: Porphyro grew faint: She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint.
Page 137 - Twelve steps or more from my mother's door, And they are side by side.
Page 247 - O woman ! in our hours of ease, uncertain, coy, and hard to please, and variable as the shade by the light, quivering aspen made ; when pain and anguish wring the brow, a ministering angel thou...
Page 26 - For saddle-tree scarce reached had he, His journey to begin, When, turning round his head, he saw Three customers come in. So down he came; for loss of time, Although it grieved him sore, Yet loss of pence, full well he knew, Would trouble him much more. Twas long before the customers Were suited to their mind, When Betty screaming came down stairs, 'The wine is left behind!' 'Good lack,' quoth he — 'yet bring it me, My leathern belt likewise, In which I bear my trusty sword, When I do exercise.
Page 138 - To them I may have owed another gift, Of aspect more sublime : that blessed mood In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world. Is lightened; that serene and blessed mood.
Page 297 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning.
Page 291 - My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.