Modern English Essays ...Ernest Rhys J.M. Dent & Sons Limited, 1922 |
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... minstrelsy . It is morbidly sweet and mournful , and all touched on that single string , which thrills to a dead and immortal affection . A CYNIC'S APOLOGY BY LESLIE STEPHEN THERE are certain outcasts 63 POETRY OF EDGAR ALLAN POE.
... minstrelsy . It is morbidly sweet and mournful , and all touched on that single string , which thrills to a dead and immortal affection . A CYNIC'S APOLOGY BY LESLIE STEPHEN THERE are certain outcasts 63 POETRY OF EDGAR ALLAN POE.
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... sweet a tongue ; But ' tis in vain to summon here to me So famous a dead personage as he , And you must take contentedly to - day This poor rondeau that Cupid wafts your way . When this cat died the Duchess was too much affected 88 ...
... sweet a tongue ; But ' tis in vain to summon here to me So famous a dead personage as he , And you must take contentedly to - day This poor rondeau that Cupid wafts your way . When this cat died the Duchess was too much affected 88 ...
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... sweet as lovely melancholy . These have been claimed for Fletcher , since he inserted them in his play of The Nice Valour , but possibly were composed by Dr. William Strode , who flourished IIO EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN.
... sweet as lovely melancholy . These have been claimed for Fletcher , since he inserted them in his play of The Nice Valour , but possibly were composed by Dr. William Strode , who flourished IIO EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN.
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... sweet ! Like snow on wool thy fallings are , Soft like a spirit are thy feet . Campbell found the key - note of his resonant naval ode , Ye Mariners of England , in the lines , Ye Gentlemen of England , written by Martyn Parker so long ...
... sweet ! Like snow on wool thy fallings are , Soft like a spirit are thy feet . Campbell found the key - note of his resonant naval ode , Ye Mariners of England , in the lines , Ye Gentlemen of England , written by Martyn Parker so long ...
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... Sweet Home ; nor do I hesitate to say that few more grateful and attractive pictures , within the means of the average country - dweller , can hang upon his walls , than these truthful representations of the birth - place of Samuel ...
... Sweet Home ; nor do I hesitate to say that few more grateful and attractive pictures , within the means of the average country - dweller , can hang upon his walls , than these truthful representations of the birth - place of Samuel ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
ANDREW LANG appears AUGUSTINE BIRRELL AUSTIN DOBSON ballad beauty better Bishop called Carlyle Carlyle's cats century charming Christopher Smart Clement's Inn Court criticism cynic death delight doubt Duchess EDGAR ALLAN POE Edmund Gosse English essay eyes Falstaff favour Garrick Gay's genius give Goldsmith Good-Natur'd H. C. BEECHING Haunted Palace heart historian honour HUGH LATIMER human humour John king lady Latimer Latimer's literary live London Lord lyric melancholy mind Moncrif nature never once opinion passion perhaps pieces Plato Poe's poem poet poetical poetry political poor Pope preached purgatory recognised remember Samuel Woodworth seems sermon Smart song soul Spens Spenser spirit stanzas Stoops to Conquer Sweet tell things thou thought tion true turtle Ulalume verses volume walking tour words writing written wrote young youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 209 - Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
Seite 143 - Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon Wednesday in Wheeson week, when the prince broke thy head for liking his father to a singingman of Windsor, thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me and make me my lady thy wife.
Seite 232 - ... our sage and serious poet Spenser, whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas...
Seite 36 - Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, but now I know it, with what more you may think proper.
Seite 35 - Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit, a man ; simplicity, a child ; With native humour temp'ring virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age ; Above temptation, in a low estate ; And uncorrupted...
Seite 224 - He had walk for a hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his harness when he went unto Blackheath field. He kept me to school, or else I had not been able to have preached before the King's Majesty now.
Seite 86 - I did not think he ought to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else. Another charge was, that he did not love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it.
Seite 118 - METHINKS it is good to be here : If thou wilt, let us build — but for whom ? Nor Elias nor Moses appear ; But the shadows of eve that encompass with gloom The abode of the dead and the place of the tomb.