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... thou : or seem they grave and léarned ? Why so didst thou : come they of noble family ? Why so didst thou : seem they religious ? Why so didst thou : or are they spare in diet ; Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger ; Constant in ...
... thou : or seem they grave and léarned ? Why so didst thou : come they of noble family ? Why so didst thou : seem they religious ? Why so didst thou : or are they spare in diet ; Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger ; Constant in ...
Side xxxvi
... thou deign'st to grow : Fair op'ning to some court's propitious shine , Or deep with diamonds in the flaming mine ? Twin'd with the wreaths Parnassian laurels yield , Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? Where grows ? where grows ...
... thou deign'st to grow : Fair op'ning to some court's propitious shine , Or deep with diamonds in the flaming mine ? Twin'd with the wreaths Parnassian laurels yield , Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? Where grows ? where grows ...
Side 81
... thou , O my love ? ' He saw , at length , her heaving heart beating around the feathered arrow . O Conloch's daughter , is it thou ? He sunk upon her breast.- I The hunters found the hapless pair . He after- wards walked the hill - but ...
... thou , O my love ? ' He saw , at length , her heaving heart beating around the feathered arrow . O Conloch's daughter , is it thou ? He sunk upon her breast.- I The hunters found the hapless pair . He after- wards walked the hill - but ...
Side 91
... thou been alive to have shared it with me . I thought , by the accent , it had been an apostrophe to his child ; but it was to his ass , and to the very ass we had seen dead in the road , which had occasioned La Fleur's misadventure ...
... thou been alive to have shared it with me . I thought , by the accent , it had been an apostrophe to his child ; but it was to his ass , and to the very ass we had seen dead in the road , which had occasioned La Fleur's misadventure ...
Side 92
... Thou hast one comfort , friend , said I , at least , in the loss of thy poor beast ; I am sure thou hast been a merciful master to him . - Alas ! said the mourner , I thought so when he was alive - but now he is dead I think otherwise ...
... Thou hast one comfort , friend , said I , at least , in the loss of thy poor beast ; I am sure thou hast been a merciful master to him . - Alas ! said the mourner , I thought so when he was alive - but now he is dead I think otherwise ...
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Side 205 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
Side 238 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts — not so thou Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves
Side 245 - They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun; But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory. "Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, And our good Prince Eugene.
Side 232 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave...
Side 218 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Side 283 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Side 253 - As awaked from the dead, And amazed he stares around. Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise ! See the snakes that they rear, How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Side 253 - Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Side 250 - I'll meet the raging of the skies, But not an angry father." The boat has left a stormy land, A stormy sea before her, — When, oh ! too strong for human hand. The tempest gathered o'er her.
Side 217 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men...