Poetry: selected for the use of schools and families by A. BowmanG. Routledge, 1856 - 292 Seiten |
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... with a bound , He turns the turf , and shakes the solid ground ; Fire from his eyes , clouds from his nostrils flow , He bears his rider headlong on the foe . DRYDEN'S VIRGIL . 31 THE LION . FIERCEST of all , the lordly lion.
... with a bound , He turns the turf , and shakes the solid ground ; Fire from his eyes , clouds from his nostrils flow , He bears his rider headlong on the foe . DRYDEN'S VIRGIL . 31 THE LION . FIERCEST of all , the lordly lion.
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... fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery . By torch and trumpet fast array'd , Each horseman drew his battle - blade , And furious every charger neigh'd To join the dreadful revelry . Then shook the hills , with thunder riven ...
... fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery . By torch and trumpet fast array'd , Each horseman drew his battle - blade , And furious every charger neigh'd To join the dreadful revelry . Then shook the hills , with thunder riven ...
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... fires , And strong devotion to the skies aspires , Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind , Obedient passions , and a will resign'd ; For love , which scarce collective man can fill ; For patience , sov'reign o'er transmuted ill ...
... fires , And strong devotion to the skies aspires , Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind , Obedient passions , and a will resign'd ; For love , which scarce collective man can fill ; For patience , sov'reign o'er transmuted ill ...
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... War , Flood , and Fire , Have dealt upon the seven - hill'd city's pride ; She saw her glories , star by star , expire , And up the steep barbarian monarchs ride , LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING . 43 Where the car 42 Byron.
... War , Flood , and Fire , Have dealt upon the seven - hill'd city's pride ; She saw her glories , star by star , expire , And up the steep barbarian monarchs ride , LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING . 43 Where the car 42 Byron.
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... fire fair blazing , and the vestment warm ; In vain his little children , peeping out Into the mingling storm , demand their sire , With tears of artless innocence . Alas ! Nor wife , nor children , more shall he behold , Nor friends ...
... fire fair blazing , and the vestment warm ; In vain his little children , peeping out Into the mingling storm , demand their sire , With tears of artless innocence . Alas ! Nor wife , nor children , more shall he behold , Nor friends ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
aweary banners battle BATTLE OF BLENHEIM BATTLE OF WATERLOO beauty beneath billows birds blast blow bower breast breath bright brow busy bee clouds dark dead death deep dost doth dreadful earth eternal ETON COLLEGE eyes fair Father fear flowers forest gale gleam gloom glory glow grave green GRONGAR HILL hast hath hear heard heart heaven HERBERT KNOWLES hill hour LAKE REGILLUS land leaves light Lochiel lonely midnight moon morn mountains Nature's night nursling o'er painted banks pale plain pride proud purple rise rocks rolling round sculptured mountains seem'd shade sight sing skies sleep smile snow soft song sorrow soul sound spirit spread spring star stock dove storm stream sweet tawny eagle tears tempest thee thine thou busy tree trembling twas vale vernal voice wave wild winds wings wood youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 20 - The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war; These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.
Seite 37 - On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow; And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Seite 11 - Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
Seite 54 - That day of wrath, that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay? How shall he meet that dreadful day?
Seite 77 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks He shall attend, . And all my midnight hours defend.
Seite 15 - Let's dry our eyes : and thus far hear me, Cromwell ; And — when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of — say, I taught thee...
Seite 196 - MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk...
Seite 74 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes, nor want nor cold his course delay; — Hide, blushing glory, hide Pultowa's day: The...
Seite 192 - Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state : From brutes what men, from men what spirits know : • Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Seite 45 - See heaven its sparkling portals wide display, And break upon thee In a flood of day...