Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Volume 30Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Mrs. Lucia Isabella (Gilbert) Runkle, George Henry Warner J.A. Hill & Company, 1902 - Literature |
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admiration Ahasuerus ALLAN RAMSAY ancient Andromache appeared arms Bajazet beauty better brought century Christian Cicero dead death delight Demosthenes Dunciad Edgar Quinet eyes fair father forest France FRANÇOIS RABELAIS French Gargantua gave genius Greek hand head heart Heaven honor horse Jean Jesuits Jules Ferry King ladies language learned literary literature Little Parisian lived Lochaber look Lord Manon mind Molière Morgante Morgante Maggiore Moriscoes mother nature ne'er never night noble o'er once Onyegin Orlando passed passion persons poem poet poetry Polybius Pope pride Pushkin Quintilian Rabelais Renaud Roman Rome royal Saint Saracens seemed side sigh sing song soon soul speak spirit style sweet tears thee things thou thought tion Translation Troubadours truth turned Uglitch verse whole words write young
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Page 11723 - Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvaried chimes With sure returns of still expected rhymes: Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze...
Page 11753 - Hark, they whisper ; angels say, " Sister spirit, come away ! " What is this absorbs me quite, Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirit, draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul ; can this be death ? The world recedes ; it disappears ! Heaven opens on my eyes ! my ears With sounds seraphic ring ! Lend, lend your wings ! I mount ! I fly ! O grave, where is thy victory ? O death, where is thy sting...
Page 11744 - Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 11731 - Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.
Page 11724 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride...
Page 11746 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys. Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys: So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
Page 11742 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed.
Page 11741 - Honor and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honor lies. Fortune in men has some small difference made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade ; The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd. " What differ more," you cry, " than crown and cowl ?" I'll tell you, friend ! a wise man and a fool.
Page 11725 - Of all the Causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is Pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Page 11727 - Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.