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... seem to hear him thinking aloud , and his thoughts flow forth to us in the same order and in the same clearness as they spring up in our own mind , and so long as this continues we are charmed . But the moment an odd expression or a far ...
... seem to hear him thinking aloud , and his thoughts flow forth to us in the same order and in the same clearness as they spring up in our own mind , and so long as this continues we are charmed . But the moment an odd expression or a far ...
Page 28
... seems dead , and wicked dreams abuse The curtain'd sleep ; now witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's offerings , and wither'd Murder , Alarum'd by his sentinel , the wolf , Whose howl's his watch , then with his stealthy pace , With ...
... seems dead , and wicked dreams abuse The curtain'd sleep ; now witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's offerings , and wither'd Murder , Alarum'd by his sentinel , the wolf , Whose howl's his watch , then with his stealthy pace , With ...
Page 54
... seems necessary to give it that cast of happiness which borders on cheerfulness . INFLUENCE OF NIGHT . How beautiful this night ! The balmiest sigh , Which vernal zephyrs breathe in evening's ear , Were discord to the speaking quietude ...
... seems necessary to give it that cast of happiness which borders on cheerfulness . INFLUENCE OF NIGHT . How beautiful this night ! The balmiest sigh , Which vernal zephyrs breathe in evening's ear , Were discord to the speaking quietude ...
Page 58
... seems Imitated by Dr. Young . ) Why , get thee gone , horror and night go with thee . Sisters of Acheron , go hand in hand , Go dance about the bower and close them in ; And tell them that I sent you to salute them . Profane the ground ...
... seems Imitated by Dr. Young . ) Why , get thee gone , horror and night go with thee . Sisters of Acheron , go hand in hand , Go dance about the bower and close them in ; And tell them that I sent you to salute them . Profane the ground ...
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... seems shrinking from the danger , and putting itself in a posture for flight . The heart beats violently , the breath is quick and short , and the whole body is thrown into a general tremor . The voice is weak and trembling , the ...
... seems shrinking from the danger , and putting itself in a posture for flight . The heart beats violently , the breath is quick and short , and the whole body is thrown into a general tremor . The voice is weak and trembling , the ...
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Page 60 - For I can raise no money by vile means: By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their' vile trash By any indirection.
Page 82 - Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 186 - Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake...
Page 152 - God ! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice! Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds ! And they, too, have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall, shall thunder, God...
Page 65 - I'll leave you till night; you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Giiildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' ye :—Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and 'peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
Page 57 - WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life . Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we...
Page 151 - Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently ! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass : methinks thou piercest it As with a wedge ! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity ' 0 dread and silent Mount ! I gazed upon thee Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought : entranced in prayer 1 worshipped the Invisible alone.
Page 72 - The angels, not half so happy in heaven, Went envying her and me; Yes! that was the reason (as all men know, In this kingdom by the sea) That the wind came out of the cloud by night, Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
Page 82 - O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best ; And save his good broad-sword he weapon had none, He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Page 21 - One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear. When they reached the hall door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung! "She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur: They'll have fleet steeds that follow,