The Recreations of Christopher NorthD. Appleton, 1870 - 307 sider |
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... poet . Once , and but once , we were involved in the glory of that event . The creature had been in a dream of some river or lake in Kamtschatka - or ideally listening , " Across the waves ' tumultuous roar , The wolf's long howl from ...
... poet . Once , and but once , we were involved in the glory of that event . The creature had been in a dream of some river or lake in Kamtschatka - or ideally listening , " Across the waves ' tumultuous roar , The wolf's long howl from ...
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... poet ; for among the brood of boys there are hundreds and thousands of poets who never see manhood , the poetry dying away - the boy growing up into mere prose ; yet to some even of the paragraphs after some seven strokes or so , with a ...
... poet ; for among the brood of boys there are hundreds and thousands of poets who never see manhood , the poetry dying away - the boy growing up into mere prose ; yet to some even of the paragraphs after some seven strokes or so , with a ...
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... Poet . But pray syllable the living Poet's name who has had reason to complain of having fallen on evil days , or who is with " darkness and with danger compassed round . " From humbles : birth - places in the obscurest nooks frequently ...
... Poet . But pray syllable the living Poet's name who has had reason to complain of having fallen on evil days , or who is with " darkness and with danger compassed round . " From humbles : birth - places in the obscurest nooks frequently ...
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... Poet of nature and of man . We must know how to read that prophet , be- fore we preach from any text in his book of revelations . " We poets in our youth begin in gladness , But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness . " Why ...
... Poet of nature and of man . We must know how to read that prophet , be- fore we preach from any text in his book of revelations . " We poets in our youth begin in gladness , But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness . " Why ...
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... Poet .__ B and wonder at his air - supporters . Down he darts , or aside he shoots , or right up he soars , and you wish you were an Eagle . You have reached Rest - and - be - thankful , yet rest you will not , and thankful you will not ...
... Poet .__ B and wonder at his air - supporters . Down he darts , or aside he shoots , or right up he soars , and you wish you were an Eagle . You have reached Rest - and - be - thankful , yet rest you will not , and thankful you will not ...
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Side 159 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord ' taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Side 187 - All strength — all terror, single or in bands, That ever was put forth in personal form — Jehovah — with his thunder, and the choir Of shouting Angels, and the empyreal thrones — I pass them unalarmed.
Side 184 - God's almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church ; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship.
Side 195 - Yea, though I walk in death's dark vale, Yet will I fear none ill ; For thou art with me ; and thy rod And staff me comfort still.
Side 196 - These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins; these are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the first-fruits unto God and to the Lamb.
Side 182 - The essence of poetry is invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally known ; but few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression.
Side 195 - Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Side 196 - When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.
Side 134 - Live you ? or are you aught That man may question ? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. — You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.
Side 86 - And sees, on high, amidst th' encircling groves, From cliff to cliff the foaming torrents shine: While waters, woods, and winds, in concert join, And echo swells the chorus to the skies. Would Edwin this majestic scene resign For aught the huntsman's puny craft supplies ? Ah ! no : he better knows great Nature's charms to prize.