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... lines . These lines are divided into two parts , the first eight being called the octave , the last six the sestet . In the strictest form the position of the rimes is fixed , but by English sonneteers this order is often neglected . A ...
... lines . These lines are divided into two parts , the first eight being called the octave , the last six the sestet . In the strictest form the position of the rimes is fixed , but by English sonneteers this order is often neglected . A ...
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... lines , of another called The Fight at Finnesburg ) , and they were sung and told in the tribal manner at feasts , till at last some Englishman of the tenth century wrote Beowulf down . He , if not a Christian , could easily know about ...
... lines , of another called The Fight at Finnesburg ) , and they were sung and told in the tribal manner at feasts , till at last some Englishman of the tenth century wrote Beowulf down . He , if not a Christian , could easily know about ...
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... line of beautiful elegies over the dead : " Ah , Ferdiad betrayed to death , Our last meeting , oh , how sad ! Thou to die , I to remain , Ever sad our long farewell ! * * * Dear to me thy noble blush ; * Dear thy comely , perfect form ...
... line of beautiful elegies over the dead : " Ah , Ferdiad betrayed to death , Our last meeting , oh , how sad ! Thou to die , I to remain , Ever sad our long farewell ! * * * Dear to me thy noble blush ; * Dear thy comely , perfect form ...
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... line . It dealt not with a national , but with a world - wide theme , not with the present , but with a far - off past . It is not difficult to sympathise with Milton's choice of a subject when he wrote Paradise Lost . His life had been ...
... line . It dealt not with a national , but with a world - wide theme , not with the present , but with a far - off past . It is not difficult to sympathise with Milton's choice of a subject when he wrote Paradise Lost . His life had been ...
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... lines descriptive of the Eden - bower of Adam and Eve , in that Eden where- universal Pan Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance Led on th ' Eternal Spring , which he here described in a passage which recalls a famous painting of ...
... lines descriptive of the Eden - bower of Adam and Eve , in that Eden where- universal Pan Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance Led on th ' Eternal Spring , which he here described in a passage which recalls a famous painting of ...
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Page 98 - REAPER. BEHOLD her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass ! Reaping and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass ! Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain; O listen ! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound.
Page 89 - In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire? And what shoulder, and what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
Page 78 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet.
Page 62 - Queen and Huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep> Seated in thy silver chair State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright. Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess excellently bright. Lay thy bow of pearl apart And thy crystal-shining quiver; Give unto the flying hart Space to breathe, how short soever: Thou that mak'st...
Page 61 - When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh ! the doxy over the dale, Why then comes in the sweet o' the year ; For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, With heigh ! the sweet birds, O, how they sing ! Doth set my pugging tooth on edge ; For a quart of ale is a dish for a king. The lark that tirra-lirra...
Page 40 - Hurled headlong flaming from th' ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy th
Page 60 - With coral clasps and amber studs ; And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my love.
Page 283 - I WILL arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
Page 282 - And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music,) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
Page 268 - Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks; Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers.