The school book of poetry, ed. by W.C. BennettWilliam Cox Bennett Thomas Murby, 1870 - 192 pages |
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... England To the Rainbow Lord Ullin's Daughter Capern , Edward ( b . 1819 , living ) . Live in Love , ' Tis Pleasant Living Coleridge , Samuel Taylor ( b . 1772 , d . 1834 ) . Hymn in the Valley of Chamouni Cowper William ( b . 1731 , d ...
... England To the Rainbow Lord Ullin's Daughter Capern , Edward ( b . 1819 , living ) . Live in Love , ' Tis Pleasant Living Coleridge , Samuel Taylor ( b . 1772 , d . 1834 ) . Hymn in the Valley of Chamouni Cowper William ( b . 1731 , d ...
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... Dream Othello • • 39 On Mercy Polonius's Advice to Laertes Select Passages - Imagination . Glory " " Man England 110 111 110 32JJ683 162 97 134 163 28 136 165 Shakespeare . Select Passages - Drunkenness . 99 " " Contents . vii.
... Dream Othello • • 39 On Mercy Polonius's Advice to Laertes Select Passages - Imagination . Glory " " Man England 110 111 110 32JJ683 162 97 134 163 28 136 165 Shakespeare . Select Passages - Drunkenness . 99 " " Contents . vii.
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... indeed she owns a mother's heart , And be not most unfeelingly devoid Of gratitude to Providence , will grant The unquestionable good - which England , safe From interference of external force , May grant at leisure National Education . 39.
... indeed she owns a mother's heart , And be not most unfeelingly devoid Of gratitude to Providence , will grant The unquestionable good - which England , safe From interference of external force , May grant at leisure National Education . 39.
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... England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high , But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I ; And such a port for mariners I ne'er shall see again As the pleasant isle of Avès , beside the Spanish main . There were ...
... England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high , But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I ; And such a port for mariners I ne'er shall see again As the pleasant isle of Avès , beside the Spanish main . There were ...
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... England here , to beg until I die . And now I'm old and going - I'm sure I can't tell where ; One comfort is , this world's so hard , I can't be worse off there : If I might but be a sea - dove , I'd fly across the main , To the ...
... England here , to beg until I die . And now I'm old and going - I'm sure I can't tell where ; One comfort is , this world's so hard , I can't be worse off there : If I might but be a sea - dove , I'd fly across the main , To the ...
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Page 152 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled Dawn doth rise...
Page 21 - And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix for ever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould.
Page 129 - I bind the sun's throne with a burning zone, And the moon's with a girdle of pearl ; The volcanoes are dim, and the stars reel and swim, When the whirlwinds my banner unfurl. From cape to cape, with a bridge-like shape, Over a torrent sea, Sunbeam-proof, J hang like a roof : The mountains its columns be.
Page 64 - LAERTES' head. And these few precepts in thy memory See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel ; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade.
Page 101 - A man severe he was, and stern to view ; I knew him well, and every truant knew: Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he...
Page 87 - Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow, The world should listen then, as I am listening now.
Page 68 - Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? — GOD! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, GOD!
Page 75 - The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise.
Page 23 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 93 - I'm truly sorry man's dominion. Has broken nature's social union, An' justifies that ill opinion, Which makes thee startle At me, thy poor earth-born companion, An...