The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: With a Memoir of the Author, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1860 - English poetry |
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... soul for which generous * " In all his domestic relations , Southey was the most ami- able of men ; but he had no general philanthropy : he was what you call a cold man . I spent some time with him at Lord Lonsdale's , in company with ...
... soul for which generous * " In all his domestic relations , Southey was the most ami- able of men ; but he had no general philanthropy : he was what you call a cold man . I spent some time with him at Lord Lonsdale's , in company with ...
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... soul Woo terror to delight us . " In " Roderick " is a fine and characteristic im- age : " Toward the troop he spread his arms , As if the expanded soul diffused itself , And carried to all spirits with the act Its affluent inspiration ...
... soul Woo terror to delight us . " In " Roderick " is a fine and characteristic im- age : " Toward the troop he spread his arms , As if the expanded soul diffused itself , And carried to all spirits with the act Its affluent inspiration ...
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... soul's health Soliciting Heaven , may likeliest remedy The stricken mind , or frenzied or possessed . " So , as Sir Robert ceased , the Maiden cried , " I am not mad ! Possessed indeed I am . The hand of God is strong upon my soul ; And ...
... soul's health Soliciting Heaven , may likeliest remedy The stricken mind , or frenzied or possessed . " So , as Sir Robert ceased , the Maiden cried , " I am not mad ! Possessed indeed I am . The hand of God is strong upon my soul ; And ...
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... soul The call of God . " They listened to the Maid , And they almost believed . Then spake Dunois : " Wilt thou go with me , Maiden , to the king , And there announce thy mission ? " Thus he said ; For thoughts of politic craftiness ...
... soul The call of God . " They listened to the Maid , And they almost believed . Then spake Dunois : " Wilt thou go with me , Maiden , to the king , And there announce thy mission ? " Thus he said ; For thoughts of politic craftiness ...
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... thee . But God be with thee , child ! ” Nor was the Maid , Though all subdued of soul , untroubled now In that sad parting ; but she calmed herself , Painfully keeping down her heart , and said , " JOAN OF ARC . BOOK I. 29.
... thee . But God be with thee , child ! ” Nor was the Maid , Though all subdued of soul , untroubled now In that sad parting ; but she calmed herself , Painfully keeping down her heart , and said , " JOAN OF ARC . BOOK I. 29.
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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.