Library of the World's Best Literature: A-ZCharles Dudley Warner J.A. Hill, 1902 - Literature |
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Page 1450
... poet Gray , and the Elegy in a Country Churchyard . ' " I , " said he , " would prefer being the author of that poem to the glory of beating the French to - morrow ; " and , while the oars struck the river as it rippled in the silence ...
... poet Gray , and the Elegy in a Country Churchyard . ' " I , " said he , " would prefer being the author of that poem to the glory of beating the French to - morrow ; " and , while the oars struck the river as it rippled in the silence ...
Page 1474
... poets are woven into all of his descriptions of nature . He is distinguished , scholarly , full of taste , and brilliant in execution ; never failing in propriety , and never reaching inspira- tion . As an artist in words and cadences ...
... poets are woven into all of his descriptions of nature . He is distinguished , scholarly , full of taste , and brilliant in execution ; never failing in propriety , and never reaching inspira- tion . As an artist in words and cadences ...
Page 1477
... poet and excellent writer , is naturally a practical man , had a pleasing idea . He wished that the reunions in the cafés might continue at the absinthe hour , but without the absinthe ! A very honest man , chosen for that purpose ...
... poet and excellent writer , is naturally a practical man , had a pleasing idea . He wished that the reunions in the cafés might continue at the absinthe hour , but without the absinthe ! A very honest man , chosen for that purpose ...
Page 1479
... poets , leave the sordid earth awhile ; Flit to these ancient gods we still adore : " It may be we shall touch the happy isle . " Translation of Andrew Lang . WHE BALLADE DES PENDUS HERE wide the forest bows are THÉODORE DE BANVILLE 1479.
... poets , leave the sordid earth awhile ; Flit to these ancient gods we still adore : " It may be we shall touch the happy isle . " Translation of Andrew Lang . WHE BALLADE DES PENDUS HERE wide the forest bows are THÉODORE DE BANVILLE 1479.
Page 1488
... poets have been a very unreasonable race , and have often complained loudly of the neglect of genius and the ingratitude of the age . The tender and pensive Cowley , and the elegant Shenstone , had their minds tinctured by this ...
... poets have been a very unreasonable race , and have often complained loudly of the neglect of genius and the ingratitude of the age . The tender and pensive Cowley , and the elegant Shenstone , had their minds tinctured by this ...
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Popular passages
Page 1778 - NATURE has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
Page 1778 - By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every action whatsoever, according to the tendency which it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question: or, what is the same thing in other words, to promote or to oppose that happiness.
Page 1895 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 1832 - BRIEF life is here our portion ; Brief sorrow, shortlived care ; The life that knows no ending, The tearless life, is there.
Page 1683 - Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes, Brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose On this afflicted prince. Fall like a cloud In gentle showers: give nothing that is loud Or painful to his slumbers: easy, sweet, And as a purling stream, thou son of Night, Pass by his troubled senses; sing his pain Like hollow murmuring wind, or silver rain: Into this prince, gently, oh gently slide, And kiss him into slumbers, like a bride.
Page 1832 - With milk and honey blest ; Beneath thy contemplation Sink heart and voice opprest. I know not, oh ! I know not What joys await us there ; What radiancy of glory, "What bliss beyond compare.
Page 1832 - For very love, beholding Thy happy name, they weep. The mention of thy glory Is unction to the breast, And medicine in sickness, And love, and life, and rest.
Page 1903 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Page 1742 - What benefits do they that are effectually called, partake of in this life ? A. They that are effectually called, do in this life partake of justification, adoption, and sanctification, and the several benefits which in this life do either accompany or flow from them.
Page 1450 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.