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As soon as he had completed his labours for the publication of his second
volume , Cowper entered upon an undertaking of a still more arduous nature - ą
translation of Homer . He had gone through the great Grecian at Westminster
School ...
As soon as he had completed his labours for the publication of his second
volume , Cowper entered upon an undertaking of a still more arduous nature - ą
translation of Homer . He had gone through the great Grecian at Westminster
School ...
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At his heels , Close at his heels , a demagogue ascends , And with a dexterous
jerk soon twists him down . And wins them but to lose them in his turn . Here rills
of oily eloquence , in soft Meanders , lubricate the course they take ; The modest
...
At his heels , Close at his heels , a demagogue ascends , And with a dexterous
jerk soon twists him down . And wins them but to lose them in his turn . Here rills
of oily eloquence , in soft Meanders , lubricate the course they take ; The modest
...
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He soon replied : ' I do admire Of womankind but one , So three doors off the
chaise was stayed , And you are she , my dearest dear ; Where they did all get in
; Therefore it shall be done . Six precious souls , and all agog To dash through
thick ...
He soon replied : ' I do admire Of womankind but one , So three doors off the
chaise was stayed , And you are she , my dearest dear ; Where they did all get in
; Therefore it shall be done . Six precious souls , and all agog To dash through
thick ...
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But soon came down again ; Away went Gilpin , neck or nought ; For saddle - tree
scarce reached had he , ' - Away went hat and wig ; His journey to begin , He little
dreamt when he set out , When , turning round his head , he saw Of running ...
But soon came down again ; Away went Gilpin , neck or nought ; For saddle - tree
scarce reached had he , ' - Away went hat and wig ; His journey to begin , He little
dreamt when he set out , When , turning round his head , he saw Of running ...
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In merry guise he spoke : She pulled out half - a - crown ; " I came because your
horse would come And thus unto the youth she said , And , if I well forebode ,
That drove them to the Bell : My hat and wig will soon be here . This shall be
yours ...
In merry guise he spoke : She pulled out half - a - crown ; " I came because your
horse would come And thus unto the youth she said , And , if I well forebode ,
That drove them to the Bell : My hat and wig will soon be here . This shall be
yours ...
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Page 290 - Away! away! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy, Though the dull brain perplexes and retards: Already with thee! tender is the night, And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne, Clustered around by all her starry Fays...
Page 260 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, — roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin, — his control Stops with the shore; — upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
Page 154 - Nor dim nor red, like God's own head, The glorious Sun uprist: Then all averred, I had killed the bird That brought the fog and mist.
Page 154 - He struck with his o'ertaking wings And chased us south along. With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled. And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold: And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald.
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Page 322 - ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold: Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?" The vision raised its head, And, with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord.
Page 277 - What thou art we know not: What is most like thee? From rainbow clouds there flow not drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a poet hidden in the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not.
Page 154 - And I had done a hellish thing. And it would work 'em woe: For all averred. I had killed the bird That made the breeze to blow.
Page 14 - With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me; Voice only fails, else how distinct they say, "Grieve not, my child, chase all thy fears away!
Page 136 - Once again I see These hedge-rows, hardly hedge-rows, little lines Of sportive wood run wild : these pastoral farms. Green to the very door; and wreaths of smoke Sent up, in silence, from among the trees ! With some uncertain notice, as might seem Of vagrant Dwellers in the houseless woods, Or of some Hermit's cave, where by his fire The Hermit sits alone.
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| Title | Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British and American Authors, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 5 Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British and American Authors, with Specimens of Their Writings, Robert Carruthers |
| Editor | Robert Chambers |
| Publisher | Amer. Book Exchange, 1879 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 15 Dec 2006 |
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