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... young imagination have kept pure , Stranger ! henceforth be warned ; and know that pride , Howe'er disguised in its own majesty , Is littleness ; that he who feels contempt For any living thing , hath faculties Which he has never used ...
... young imagination have kept pure , Stranger ! henceforth be warned ; and know that pride , Howe'er disguised in its own majesty , Is littleness ; that he who feels contempt For any living thing , hath faculties Which he has never used ...
Page 129
... a snare ; all the young , Lo streams that are patient of thy rule ; [ however bright and fair . April could not check in gurglingamy water - break , loitering in glassy pool : K By thee , thee only , ] could be sent ANALYSIS . 129.
... a snare ; all the young , Lo streams that are patient of thy rule ; [ however bright and fair . April could not check in gurglingamy water - break , loitering in glassy pool : K By thee , thee only , ] could be sent ANALYSIS . 129.
Page 132
... young , However bright and fair . Lo ! Streams that April could not check Are patient of thy rule ; Gurgling in foamy water - break , Loitering in glassy pool : By thee , thee only , could be sent Such 132 ANALYSIS .
... young , However bright and fair . Lo ! Streams that April could not check Are patient of thy rule ; Gurgling in foamy water - break , Loitering in glassy pool : By thee , thee only , could be sent Such 132 ANALYSIS .
Page 134
... young woman had a right to expect all sort of civil things said to her ; that she hoped she could digest a dose of adulation , with as little injury as most young women : but that she had overheard him rating a young woman , who had not ...
... young woman had a right to expect all sort of civil things said to her ; that she hoped she could digest a dose of adulation , with as little injury as most young women : but that she had overheard him rating a young woman , who had not ...
Page 140
... young woman placed Fin ber situation had a right to expect she all sort of civil things said to her ; that she r hoped she could digest a dose of adulation , short of with insincerity , as little injury [ to her humility as most young ...
... young woman placed Fin ber situation had a right to expect she all sort of civil things said to her ; that she r hoped she could digest a dose of adulation , short of with insincerity , as little injury [ to her humility as most young ...
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Adjectival adjective adverb apace beautiful blow breath bulrushes clauses clear cloth College conjunctive mood creature cried the Frog curiosity doth Dragon-fly dry land English language English Notes Eton College EXAMPLE FOR PRACTICE exclaimed the Frog expression eyes father fcap feel female FORM-SUBJECT IN ITALICS formerly Fellow French Grammar Greek hath hear heart hill INTRANSITIVE VERBS labour language Latin little fellow main idea mean mighty heart mind never night noun old English Oriel College Oxford P. G. TAIT participle pealed pluperfect tense plural poetry pond PREDICATE preposition Professor pronoun prose reader replied the Grub round seek sense sentence sight SKELETON FORM-SUBJECT Skiddaw soul speak speech sweet content tell tense thee thing thou thought told truth University of Oxford Uppingham School words writer young
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Page 102 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 219 - No more shall grief of mine the season wrong; I hear the Echoes through the mountains throng, The Winds come to me from the fields of sleep, And all the earth is gay; Land and sea Give themselves up to jollity...
Page 124 - Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. O hark, O hear ! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going ! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing ! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying : Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 124 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story : The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 218 - As to the tabor's sound, To me alone there came a thought of grief: A timely utterance gave that thought relief, And I again am strong...
Page 114 - For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly war-flame spread, High on St. Michael's Mount it shone: it shone on Beachy Head. Far on the deep the Spaniard saw, along each southern shire, Cape beyond cape, in endless range, those twinkling points of fire.
Page 113 - And crushed and torn beneath his claws the princely hunters lay. Ho! strike the flagstaff deep, Sir Knight: ho! scatter flowers, fair maids: Ho! gunners, fire a loud salute: ho! gallants, draw your blades: Thou sun, shine on her joyously; ye breezes, waft her wide; Our glorious SEMPER EADEM, the banner of our pride.
Page 87 - My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.
Page 114 - From Eddystone to Berwick bounds, from Lynn to Milford Bay, That time of slumber was as bright and busy as the day; For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly warflame spread, High on St.
Page 208 - Uncared for, gird the windy grove, And flood the haunts of hern and crake, Or into silver arrows break The sailing moon in creek and cove; Till from the garden and the wild A fresh association blow, And year by year the landscape grow Familiar to the stranger's child; As year by year the laborer tills His wonted glebe, or lops the glades, And year by year our memory fades From all the circle of the hills.