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... come perfect days ; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune , And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look , or whether we listen , We hear life murmur , or see it glisten , Every clod feels a stir of might , An instinct ...
... come perfect days ; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune , And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look , or whether we listen , We hear life murmur , or see it glisten , Every clod feels a stir of might , An instinct ...
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... Come over , come over to me . So when the sun in bed , Curtain'd with cloudy red , Pillows his chin upon an orient wave , The flocking shadows pale Troop to the infernal jail , Each fetter'd ghost slips to his several grave . Ingelow ...
... Come over , come over to me . So when the sun in bed , Curtain'd with cloudy red , Pillows his chin upon an orient wave , The flocking shadows pale Troop to the infernal jail , Each fetter'd ghost slips to his several grave . Ingelow ...
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... COME , all ye jolly shepherds , That whistle down the glen ! I'll tell ye of a secret That courtiers dinna ken : What is the greatest bliss That the tongue o ' man can name ? " Tis to woo a bonnie lassie When the kye comes hame . Moore ...
... COME , all ye jolly shepherds , That whistle down the glen ! I'll tell ye of a secret That courtiers dinna ken : What is the greatest bliss That the tongue o ' man can name ? " Tis to woo a bonnie lassie When the kye comes hame . Moore ...
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... comes in triumph over Pompey's blood ? HENCE ! home , you idle creatures ; get you home ! BE gone ! Run to your ... Come they of noble family ? Why , so didst thou : Seem they religious ? Why , so didst thou : Or are they spare in diet ...
... comes in triumph over Pompey's blood ? HENCE ! home , you idle creatures ; get you home ! BE gone ! Run to your ... Come they of noble family ? Why , so didst thou : Seem they religious ? Why , so didst thou : Or are they spare in diet ...
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... COME back , come back , Horatius ! " Loud cried the fathers all . " Back , Lartius ! back , Herminius ! Back , ere the ruin fall ! " " FORWARD , the light brigade ! Macaulay . Charge for the guns ! " he said . Tennyson . Ho ! strike the ...
... COME back , come back , Horatius ! " Loud cried the fathers all . " Back , Lartius ! back , Herminius ! Back , ere the ruin fall ! " " FORWARD , the light brigade ! Macaulay . Charge for the guns ! " he said . Tennyson . Ho ! strike the ...
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Page 165 - SHE dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love. A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me...
Page 299 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 306 - Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged ; their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, peace; but there is no peace.
Page 136 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters,...
Page 306 - Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house ? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction ? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs, and .hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot ? Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of...
Page 58 - Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken! Leave my loneliness unbroken! quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!" Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, . And the lamp-light o'er...
Page 35 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar...
Page 136 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature ; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing ; whose end both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Page 242 - ... of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one, but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar : they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience...
Page 286 - The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.