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... thought fit to point out the broad distinctions given above . To enter into that very intricate question , as to what constitutes poetry with respect to its subject - matter , would be out of place here . in English poetry , as quantity ...
... thought fit to point out the broad distinctions given above . To enter into that very intricate question , as to what constitutes poetry with respect to its subject - matter , would be out of place here . in English poetry , as quantity ...
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... thought expressed in the first . It is the chief characteristic of Hebrew poetry , and is but rarely employed in English ; e . g . Tell it not in Gath , Publish it not in the streets of Ascalon ; Lest the daughters of the Philistines ...
... thought expressed in the first . It is the chief characteristic of Hebrew poetry , and is but rarely employed in English ; e . g . Tell it not in Gath , Publish it not in the streets of Ascalon ; Lest the daughters of the Philistines ...
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... Thoughts , Blair's Grave , Akenside's Pleasures of the Imagination , and most of Cowper's poems , are of this kind . The finest didactic poem in English is Wordsworth's Excursion . Satirical Poetry is a species of didactic , as its ...
... Thoughts , Blair's Grave , Akenside's Pleasures of the Imagination , and most of Cowper's poems , are of this kind . The finest didactic poem in English is Wordsworth's Excursion . Satirical Poetry is a species of didactic , as its ...
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... thoughts in this form , it continued to be looked down upon by English writers as an alien , unsuited to our northern tongue , and too crippling to the airy fancy of the poet . It is to Words- worth that we owe the uprooting of these ...
... thoughts in this form , it continued to be looked down upon by English writers as an alien , unsuited to our northern tongue , and too crippling to the airy fancy of the poet . It is to Words- worth that we owe the uprooting of these ...
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... thought ; brevity and wit being its essentials , the point generally coming at the end . On One who made long Epitaphs . Friend , for your epitaphs I'm grieved ; Where still so much is said , One - half will never be believed , The ...
... thought ; brevity and wit being its essentials , the point generally coming at the end . On One who made long Epitaphs . Friend , for your epitaphs I'm grieved ; Where still so much is said , One - half will never be believed , The ...
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Page 36 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Page 34 - I care not, Fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face...
Page 60 - But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began...
Page 70 - They never fail who die In a great cause : the block may soak their gore ; Their heads may sodden in the sun ; their limbs Be strung to city gates and castle walls — But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts Which overpower all others, and conduct The world at last to freedom.
Page 61 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Page 49 - Far, far aloof the affrighted ravens sail ; The famish'd eagle screams, and passes by. Dear lost companions of my tuneful art, Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart...
Page 61 - Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet, For every pelting, petty officer, Would use his heaven for thunder ; Nothing but thunder.
Page 50 - Pr'ythee, lead me in : There take an inventory of all I have, To the last penny : 'tis the king's : my robe, And my integrity to heaven, is all I dare now call mine own. O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Page 13 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 13 - And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him, — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won. He heard it, but he heeded not, — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away.