Lillian and Other PoemsRedfield, 1852 - 290 pages |
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... vers de societe he is without an equal among English authors . Nothing can be more graceful , natu- ral , and agreeable , than his Every Day Characters ; we find nowhere a more brilliant play of fancy than in BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION .
... vers de societe he is without an equal among English authors . Nothing can be more graceful , natu- ral , and agreeable , than his Every Day Characters ; we find nowhere a more brilliant play of fancy than in BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION .
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Winthrop Mackworth Praed Rufus Wilmot Griswold. find nowhere a more brilliant play of fancy than in Lil- lian and his other arabesque stories , in which the most curious rural superstitions are embroidered so deftly on the feelings of ...
Winthrop Mackworth Praed Rufus Wilmot Griswold. find nowhere a more brilliant play of fancy than in Lil- lian and his other arabesque stories , in which the most curious rural superstitions are embroidered so deftly on the feelings of ...
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... Fancy's bower , If thou hast ever , ever felt A dream of delicate beauty melt Into the heart's recess , Seen by the soul , and seen by the mind , But indistinct its loveliness , Adored , and not defined ; A bright creation , a shadowy ...
... Fancy's bower , If thou hast ever , ever felt A dream of delicate beauty melt Into the heart's recess , Seen by the soul , and seen by the mind , But indistinct its loveliness , Adored , and not defined ; A bright creation , a shadowy ...
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... Fancy whispers strange suggestions , And Wonder prompts a score of questions . Is she a nymph of another sphere ? Whence came she hither ? -what doth she here ? Or if the morning of her birth Be registered on this our earth , Why hath ...
... Fancy whispers strange suggestions , And Wonder prompts a score of questions . Is she a nymph of another sphere ? Whence came she hither ? -what doth she here ? Or if the morning of her birth Be registered on this our earth , Why hath ...
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... fancy dimly wrought , A glittering cloud , a darkling beam , With all the quiet of a thought , And all the passion of a dream , Linked in a golden spell together ! " Oh ! Vidal's soul did weep very Whene'er that music , like a charm ...
... fancy dimly wrought , A glittering cloud , a darkling beam , With all the quiet of a thought , And all the passion of a dream , Linked in a golden spell together ! " Oh ! Vidal's soul did weep very Whene'er that music , like a charm ...
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Abbess abbot ARSENE HOUSSAYE beautiful Beauty's Beneath bliss blue bower breath bright Bronchitis brow charm cheek clasp cold Count Otto courser dance dark delight Digore dragon dream earth Entomology eyes faded fair fancy fat friars father fear feel flowers fond frown Fustian Hall gazed glow gout grace grief hair hand hath hear heard heart heaven hope hour illustrated insect John Moultrie lady laugh light lips lonely look Lord Louis XV love and lies lover Lurley lute maid maiden minstrel never night Nonny numbers o'er pale passion pray prayer quadrille reader Redfield rhyme rose sigh silent Sir Isumbras sleep smile song soul spirit steed style sweet talked taste tears tell thee thine thou thought to-day to-night tone Twas Vidal voice volume wake wander weary ween weep WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED young youth
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Page 133 - And nothings for Sylvanus Urban. He did not think all mischief fair, Although he had a knack of joking; He did not make himself a bear, Although he had a taste for smoking. And when religious sects ran mad He held, in spite of all his learning, That if a man's belief is bad It will not be improved by burning.
Page 142 - She smiled on many just for fun ; I knew that there was nothing in it ; I was the first — the only — one Her heart had thought of for a minute : I knew it, for she told me so In phrase which was divinely moulded. She wrote a charming hand, and oh How sweetly all her notes were folded I Our love was like most other loves — A little glow, a little shiver, A rosebud and a pair of gloves, And
Page 142 - Fly not yet" — upon the river; Some jealousy of some one's heir, Some hopes of dying broken-hearted, A miniature, a lock of hair, The usual vows, — and then we parted. We parted ; months and years...
Page 264 - Go, call him by his name; No fitter hand may crave To light the flame of a soldier's fame On the turf of a soldier's grave!
Page 134 - Alack the change! in vain I look For haunts in which my boyhood trifled,— The level lawn, the trickling brook, The trees I climbed, the beds I rifled...
Page 54 - Hastings bend the knee, Till those bewitching lips of thine Will bid me rise in bliss from mine, Smile, Lady, smile! for who would win A loveless throne through guilt and sin ? Or who would reign o'er vale and hill, If woman's heart were rebel still...
Page 141 - Grew lovelier from her pencil's shading; She botanized ; I envied each Young blossom in her boudoir fading; She warbled Handel ; it was grand — She made the Catalan!
Page 131 - Had turned our parish topsy-turvy, When Darnel Park was Darnel Waste, And roads as little known as scurvy, The man who lost his way, between St. Mary's Hill and Sandy Thicket, Was always shown across the green, And guided to the Parson's wicket. Back flew the bolt of lissom lath; Fair Margaret, in her tidy kirtle, Led the lorn traveller up the path, Through...
Page 139 - There, when the sounds of flute and fiddle Gave signal sweet in that old hall Of hands across and down the middle, Hers was the subtlest spell by far Of all that...
Page 54 - As he took forth a bait from his iron box. It was a bundle of beautiful things, A peacock's tail, and a butterfly's wings, A scarlet slipper, an auburn curl, A mantle of silk, and a bracelet of pearl, And a packet of letters, from whose sweet fold Such a stream of delicate odours rolled, That the abbot fell on his face, and fainted, And deemed his spirit was half-way sainted.