Poems: A New Edition, Volume 1Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1828 |
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... Scenes of suffering become fit subjects for poetry or fiction , principally , because they afford an opportunity for the exhibition of high and uncommon virtues . The delight with which we contemplate these virtues , and our sympathy ...
... Scenes of suffering become fit subjects for poetry or fiction , principally , because they afford an opportunity for the exhibition of high and uncommon virtues . The delight with which we contemplate these virtues , and our sympathy ...
Page xxi
... scenes and affections are called up in all their ten- derness and beauty , and with all their power to touch the heart of an exile . " The voices of my home ! -I hear them still ! They have been with me through the dreamy night- The ...
... scenes and affections are called up in all their ten- derness and beauty , and with all their power to touch the heart of an exile . " The voices of my home ! -I hear them still ! They have been with me through the dreamy night- The ...
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... scene of calm and deep beauty in which he had once beheld her . " And she to die ! —she lov'd the laughing earth With such deep joy in its fresh leaves and flowers ! -Was not her smile even as the sudden birth Of a young rainbow ...
... scene of calm and deep beauty in which he had once beheld her . " And she to die ! —she lov'd the laughing earth With such deep joy in its fresh leaves and flowers ! -Was not her smile even as the sudden birth Of a young rainbow ...
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... scene is now concentrated on Alvar and Theresa ; 6 “ I saw the doubt , the anguish , the dismay , Melt from my Alvar's glorious mien away , And peace was there - the calmness of the just ! And , bending down the slumberer's brow to kiss ...
... scene is now concentrated on Alvar and Theresa ; 6 “ I saw the doubt , the anguish , the dismay , Melt from my Alvar's glorious mien away , And peace was there - the calmness of the just ! And , bending down the slumberer's brow to kiss ...
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... voices ! -but the glow * [ The final scene of an auto da fe was sometimes , from the length of the preceding ceremonies , delayed till midnight . ] On the hot air and lurid skies increas'd- -Faint grew xxvi POETRY OF MRS . HEMANS .
... voices ! -but the glow * [ The final scene of an auto da fe was sometimes , from the length of the preceding ceremonies , delayed till midnight . ] On the hot air and lurid skies increas'd- -Faint grew xxvi POETRY OF MRS . HEMANS .
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ABENCERRAGE Alaric beam beauty blest bosom bower brave breast breath bright brow calm CAMOENS Castile charms cheek Conradin dark dead death deep despair doom dread dream dwell e'en earth echoing fair falchions fame fane fate fear fled flower foes gaze Genoa glance glory glory's glow grace Granada grandeur grave grief Hadrian Hamet hast hath heart heaven hope hour Italy light lingering lofty lonely lord of war Lysippus majesty METASTASIO midst mighty mingling Moorish mortal mourn murmuring ne'er Note o'er o'er thy Otho pangs plain proud repose Rome round rude Saracens scene shed shrine silent skies sleep slumber smile song SONNET 70 soul sound Spain spirit stern strain stream sublime sunbeam swell tears thee thine thou thought throng tomb tone towers trace triumph vengeance Virgil's tomb voice wake warrior wave weep wild Witiza Zayda Zegri
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Page iv - States entitled an act for the encouragement of learning hy securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the author., and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned, and also to an act entitled an act supplementary to an act, entitled an act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and...
Page 186 - At the hour of midnight the Salarian gate was silently opened, and the inhabitants were awakened by the tremendous sound of the Gothic trumpet. Eleven hundred and sixty-three years after the foundation of Rome, the imperial city, which had subdued and civilized so considerable a part of mankind, was delivered to the licentious fury of the tribes of Germany and Scythia.
Page 120 - Besides the resource of despair, he confided in the secret correspondence and nocturnal interviews of Count Julian with the sons and the brother of Witiza. The two princes and the archbishop of Toledo occupied the most important post: their welltimed defection broke the ranks of the Christians; each warrior was prompted by fear or suspicion to consult his personal safety ; and the remains of the Gothic army were scattered or destroyed in the flight and pursuit of the three following days.
Page 119 - In the neighbourhood of Cadiz, the town of Xeres has been illustrated by the encounter which determined the fate of the kingdom ; the stream of the Guadalete, which falls into the bay, divided the two camps, and marked the advancing and retreating skirmishes of three successive and bloody days. On the fourth day, the two armies joined a more serious and decisive issue...
Page 157 - So many grateful altars I would rear Of grassy turf, and pile up every stone Of lustre from the brook, in memory Or monument to ages ; and thereon Offer sweet-smelling gums, and fruits, and flowers : In yonder nether world where shall I seek His bright appearances, or foot-step trace...
Page 313 - DIRGE OF A CHILD. No bitter tears for thee be shed, Blossom of being ! seen and gone ! With flowers alone we strew thy bed, O blest departed One ! Whose all of life, a rosy ray, Blush'd into dawn and pass'd away.
Page 175 - The ferocious character of the barbarians was displayed in the funeral of a hero, whose valour and fortune they celebrated with mournful applause. By the labour of a captive multitude they forcibly diverted the course of the Busentinus, a small river that washes the walls of Consentia. The royal sepulchre, adorned with the splendid spoils and trophies of Rome, was constructed in the vacant...
Page 175 - Italy than he was attracted by the neighboring prospect of a fertile and peaceful island. Yet even the possession of Sicily he considered only as an intermediate step to the important expedition which he already meditated against the continent of Africa. The straits of Rhegium and Messina...
Page 155 - Caesar, he disembarked, and travelled a hundred furlongs on foot, as if Rome had been the place of his destination. Repenting, however, afterwards, he left that road, and made again for the sea. He passed the night in the most perplexing and horrid thoughts; insomuch, that he was sometimes inclined to go privately into...
Page 57 - FAIR land ! of chivalry the old domain, Land of the vine and olive, lovely Spain ! Though not for thee with classic shores to vie In charms that fix th' enthusiast's pensive eye, Yet hast thou scenes of beauty, richly fraught With all that wakes the glow of lofty thought ; Fountains, and vales, and rocks, whose ancient name High deeds have raised to mingle with their fame. Those scenes are peaceful now : the citron blows, Wild spreads the myrtle, where the brave repose.