Jones's Cabinet Edition of British Poets, Volume 2Jones & Company, 1831 |
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... things , made every possible effort to procure him such an education as his talents de- served and his heart desired . Chiefly with this view , she opened a Ladies ' Boarding and Day School in Nottingham , which materially increased the ...
... things , made every possible effort to procure him such an education as his talents de- served and his heart desired . Chiefly with this view , she opened a Ladies ' Boarding and Day School in Nottingham , which materially increased the ...
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... things , Of taxes , ministers , and kings , Or else tell all the village news , How madam did the squire refuse ; How parson on his tithes was bent , And landlord oft distrain'd for rent Thus do they talk , till in the sky The pale ...
... things , Of taxes , ministers , and kings , Or else tell all the village news , How madam did the squire refuse ; How parson on his tithes was bent , And landlord oft distrain'd for rent Thus do they talk , till in the sky The pale ...
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... things to Fancy's ear , We'll hold communion with the shade Of some deep - wailing , ruin'd maid- Or call the ghost of Spenser down , To tell of wo and Fortune's frown ; And bid us cast the eye of hope Beyond this bad world's narrow ...
... things to Fancy's ear , We'll hold communion with the shade Of some deep - wailing , ruin'd maid- Or call the ghost of Spenser down , To tell of wo and Fortune's frown ; And bid us cast the eye of hope Beyond this bad world's narrow ...
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... things ! -I hoped I should not leave The earth without a vestige ; -Fate decrees It shall be otherwise , and I submit . Henceforth , oh , world , no more of thy desires ! No more of hope ! the wanton vagrant Hope ! I abjure all . Now ...
... things ! -I hoped I should not leave The earth without a vestige ; -Fate decrees It shall be otherwise , and I submit . Henceforth , oh , world , no more of thy desires ! No more of hope ! the wanton vagrant Hope ! I abjure all . Now ...
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... thing ; Even then I learn'd to bury deep from day , The piercing cares that wore my youth away : Even then I learn'd for others cares to feel ; Even then I wept I had not power to heal : The 13 Poems which follow are of a later date ...
... thing ; Even then I learn'd to bury deep from day , The piercing cares that wore my youth away : Even then I learn'd for others cares to feel ; Even then I wept I had not power to heal : The 13 Poems which follow are of a later date ...
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Page 27 - An' each for other's weelfare kindly spiers : The social hours, swift-wing'd, unnotic'd fleet ; Each tells the uncos that he sees or hears ; The parents, partial, eye their hopeful years ; Anticipation forward points the view. The mother, wi' her needle an' her sheers, Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new; The father mixes a
Page 92 - I'll ne'er blame my partial fancy, Naething could resist my Nancy; But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love for ever. Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met — or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Page 27 - An' makes him quite forget his labour an' his toil. Belyve the elder bairns come drapping in, At service out, amang the farmers roun', Some ca' the pleugh, some herd, some tentie rin A cannie errand to a neebor town : Their eldest hope, their Jenny, woman grown, In youthfu...
Page 27 - And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Would, in the way His wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide; But, chiefly, in their hearts with Grace Divine preside.
Page 19 - tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Page 44 - Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. Coffins stood round, like open presses, That...
Page 27 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise. In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Page 56 - YE banks and braes and streams around The castle o' Montgomery, Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, Your waters never drumlie ! There simmer first unfauld her robes, And there the langest tarry; For there I took the last fareweel O
Page 71 - I hear her in the tunefu' birds, I hear her charm the air : There's not a bonnie flower that springs By fountain, shaw, or green, There's not a bonnie bird that sings But minds me o
Page 17 - twill pass for wit; Care not for feeling — pass your proper jest, And stand a critic, hated yet caress'd. And shall we own such judgment? no— as soon Seek roses in December— ice in June; Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff; Believe a woman or an epitaph, Or any other thing that's false, before You trust in critics, who themselves are sore Or yield one single thought to be misled By Jeffrey's heart, or Lambe's Boeotian head.