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... wings . Sad Philomel ! ah , quit thy haunt Yon distant woods among : And round my friendly grotto chaunt Thy sweetly ... wing ( Poet . Orn . a ) should feel sudden delays . Stanza II . 1,2 . Quit , sad Philomel , thy distant retreats ...
... wings . Sad Philomel ! ah , quit thy haunt Yon distant woods among : And round my friendly grotto chaunt Thy sweetly ... wing ( Poet . Orn . a ) should feel sudden delays . Stanza II . 1,2 . Quit , sad Philomel , thy distant retreats ...
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... wings , A wae - worn ghaist I hameward glide . Come , Winter , with thine angry howl , And raging bend the naked tree ; Thy gloom will soothe my cheerless soul , When Nature all is sad like me ! Stanza 1. 1 , 2. Now every flock returns ...
... wings , A wae - worn ghaist I hameward glide . Come , Winter , with thine angry howl , And raging bend the naked tree ; Thy gloom will soothe my cheerless soul , When Nature all is sad like me ! Stanza 1. 1 , 2. Now every flock returns ...
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... wings as they flee , And chirp out their plaints , seeming wae for my Johnnie , - " Tis Winter wi ' them , and ' tis Winter ... wing . — 7 , 8. Each one ( nullus non— Aids II . 1. fem . ) has seemed to utter its plaints with me : Alike ...
... wings as they flee , And chirp out their plaints , seeming wae for my Johnnie , - " Tis Winter wi ' them , and ' tis Winter ... wing . — 7 , 8. Each one ( nullus non— Aids II . 1. fem . ) has seemed to utter its plaints with me : Alike ...
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... wing ( carpo fugam ) with the very least ( vel minimus ) blow . Observe in line 4 the turning of " Impertinence . " In Verse , as well as in Prose , you will often have to use the concrete for the abstract . E. g . in Macaulay , " In ...
... wing ( carpo fugam ) with the very least ( vel minimus ) blow . Observe in line 4 the turning of " Impertinence . " In Verse , as well as in Prose , you will often have to use the concrete for the abstract . E. g . in Macaulay , " In ...
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... wing with my fierce desires . Stanza I. 1 , 2. These wilds , places gloomy with wide swamps ( stagnum ) , Excel all the flowery pride ( decor ) the meadows have ( Aids 1. h ) .- " excel , " in line 1. - 3 , 4. By this way ( hac ) I ...
... wing with my fierce desires . Stanza I. 1 , 2. These wilds , places gloomy with wide swamps ( stagnum ) , Excel all the flowery pride ( decor ) the meadows have ( Aids 1. h ) .- " excel , " in line 1. - 3 , 4. By this way ( hac ) I ...
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Aids 11 Aids VII amid amor Anadiplosis Anaphora Apposition Assistant-Master beauty breast breeze bright broom brow charms clouds continued Crown 8vo dark Dost thou wish dreams dreary Edited Exercise XXIV eyes farewell flower frae FRANCIS STORR glen green grove heart Hendiadys Heroid Horace is-wont Jupiter light loca malè Marlborough College mihi morning Morninge Sleepe night nought nymph o'er Observe in Stanza Observe the repetition Ovid Pentameter penult perf Periphrasis Poet quæ rex Romanorum rose Rugby School shade shaken mat shine showers sing slumbers Small 8vo smile song Stanza II stream subj sweet syllable tears tempests thee tibi Transpose twine unus vale verb Verse VIII Virg voice vowel wandering waves weary ween weep whilst wild wind wont word Wouldst thou
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Page 7 - I need Thy presence every passing hour : What but Thy grace can foil the Tempter's power? Who like Thyself my guide and stay can be ? Through cloud and sunshine, LORD, abide with me.
Page 56 - GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he's a-getting; The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best, which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times still succeed the former.
Page 56 - The higher he's a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, go marry; For, having lost...
Page 105 - Past, But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast, And the days are dark and dreary. Be still, sad heart ! and cease repining ; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining ; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.
Page 32 - A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone ; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun. 5 Time, like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all its sons away ; They fly forgotten, as a dream Dies at the opening day...
Page 112 - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day ? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date...
Page 52 - O'er each fair sleeping brow, She had each folded flower in sight— Where are those dreamers now? One midst the forests of the West, By a dark stream, is laid ; The Indian knows his place of rest Far in the cedar shade.
Page 22 - Thy crystal stream, Afton, how lovely it glides, And winds by the cot where my Mary resides; How wanton thy waters her snowy feet lave, As gathering sweet flowerets she stems thy clear wave.
Page 55 - And the scene where his melody charm'd me before Resounds with his sweet-flowing ditty no more. My fugitive years are all hasting away, And I must ere long lie as lowly as they, With a turf on my breast, and a stone at my head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead.
Page 21 - My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream.