The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: With a Memoir of the Author, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1860 - English poetry |
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... bear the most distinct traces of his idiosyncrasies as evinced in boyhood , when a translation of the " Jerusalem Delivered " seems to have first directly appealed to his poetic instinct . The scenes of enchantment particularly ...
... bear the most distinct traces of his idiosyncrasies as evinced in boyhood , when a translation of the " Jerusalem Delivered " seems to have first directly appealed to his poetic instinct . The scenes of enchantment particularly ...
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... bear in mind the risk there must ever be of injuring a poem by verbal alterations made long after it was written ; inasmuch as it must be impossible to recall the precise train of thought in which any passage was conceived , and the ...
... bear in mind the risk there must ever be of injuring a poem by verbal alterations made long after it was written ; inasmuch as it must be impossible to recall the precise train of thought in which any passage was conceived , and the ...
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... bear a parapet of modern villas ; and the face of the whole district is changed . I was not a little proud of my performance . Young poets are , or at least used to be , as ambitious of producing an epic poem , as stage - stricken ...
... bear a parapet of modern villas ; and the face of the whole district is changed . I was not a little proud of my performance . Young poets are , or at least used to be , as ambitious of producing an epic poem , as stage - stricken ...
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... bears testimony to the merit of the " Odyssey : " it is the poem of nature , and its personages inspire love rather than command admiration . The good herdsman Eumæus is worth a thousand heroes . Homer is indeed the best of poets ; for ...
... bears testimony to the merit of the " Odyssey : " it is the poem of nature , and its personages inspire love rather than command admiration . The good herdsman Eumæus is worth a thousand heroes . Homer is indeed the best of poets ; for ...
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... bear , and boar similes ; Phoebuses or Auroras . And , where in battle I have particularized the death of an individual , it is not , I hope , like the common lists of killed and wounded . It has been established as a necessary rule for ...
... bear , and boar similes ; Phoebuses or Auroras . And , where in battle I have particularized the death of an individual , it is not , I hope , like the common lists of killed and wounded . It has been established as a necessary rule for ...
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Agnes Alençon amid arbalist arms bade banner Bastard battle battle of Agincourt battle-axe beheld beneath besieged blood breast buckler Burgundy called cheek chief Chinon Conrade cried Damsel death dreadful Duke Duke of Burgundy Duke of Orleans Dunois earth enemy England English esquires exclaimed falchion fear feel fell fierce fight fire France French gallant gate gazed groan hand happy hast hath hear heard heart Heaven Henry Holinshed holy honor hope host hour Joan Joan of Arc Joshua Barnes king La Hire live Lord loud Maid of Orleans Maiden mangonels miserable Monstrelet night NOTE o'er passed peace petrary poem prayer prince qu'il replied Richemont Robert Southey round Salisbury says shield siege soon soul Southey Southey's spake spear spirit stood sword Talbot thee Theodore thou thought towers town trembling troops victory Virgin voice walls warrior wretched youth
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Page 283 - Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; 18 that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
Page 230 - Thou therefore gird up thy loins and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee. Be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.
Page 275 - There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen : The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
Page 21 - ... study (which I take to be my portion in this life) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 230 - Lord God! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. But the Lord said unto me, Say not, I am a child : for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.
Page xxvi - Tis pleasant, by the cheerful hearth, to hear Of tempests and the dangers of the deep, And pause at times, and feel that we are safe ; Then listen to the perilous tale again, And with an eager and suspended soul, Woo terror to delight us.
Page 230 - Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee ; and before thou eamest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Page 230 - Ah, Lord GOD ! behold, I cannot speak : for I am a child. 7 But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child : for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.
Page 285 - Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
Page 1 - At the age of sixty-three I have undertaken to collect and edit my poetical works, with the last corrections that I can expect to bestow upon them. They have obtained a reputation equal to my wishes. * * Thus to collect and revise them is a duty which I owe to that part of the public hv whom they have been auspiciously received, and to those who will take a lively concern In my 200i1 name when I shall have departed.