Hours of idleness. English bards and Scotch reviewers. Hints from Horace. The curse of Minerva. The waltz. Age of bronze. The vision of judgment. Morgante maggioreJohn Murray, 1831 |
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... pangs of death ! Could tears retard the tyrant in his course ; Could sighs avert his dart's relentless force ; Could youth and virtue claim a short delay , Or beauty charm the spectre from his prey ; Thou still hadst lived to bless my ...
... pangs of death ! Could tears retard the tyrant in his course ; Could sighs avert his dart's relentless force ; Could youth and virtue claim a short delay , Or beauty charm the spectre from his prey ; Thou still hadst lived to bless my ...
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... pangs she deride , This whimsical virgin forget ; Some other admire , Who will melt with your fire , And laugh at the little coquette . For me , I adore 6 . Some twenty or more , And love them most dearly ; but yet , Though my heart ...
... pangs she deride , This whimsical virgin forget ; Some other admire , Who will melt with your fire , And laugh at the little coquette . For me , I adore 6 . Some twenty or more , And love them most dearly ; but yet , Though my heart ...
Strona 23
... pangs to remove , But I swear I will do so no more . 2 . Since your beautiful maid Your flame has repaid , No more I your folly regret ; She's now most divine , And I bow at the shrine Of this quickly reformed coquette . ' * These ...
... pangs to remove , But I swear I will do so no more . 2 . Since your beautiful maid Your flame has repaid , No more I your folly regret ; She's now most divine , And I bow at the shrine Of this quickly reformed coquette . ' * These ...
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... pang , my girl , and all is over . 2 . Alas ! that pang will be severe , Which bids us part to meet no more , Which tears me far from one so dear , Departing for a distant shore . 3 . Well : we have pass'd some happy hours , And joy ...
... pang , my girl , and all is over . 2 . Alas ! that pang will be severe , Which bids us part to meet no more , Which tears me far from one so dear , Departing for a distant shore . 3 . Well : we have pass'd some happy hours , And joy ...
Strona 43
... pangs may prey on me , No martyr shalt thou be to love . TO CAROLINE * . 1 . THINK'ST thou I saw thy beauteous eyes , Suffused in tears , implore to stay ; And heard unmoved thy plenteous sighs , Which said far more than words can say ...
... pangs may prey on me , No martyr shalt thou be to love . TO CAROLINE * . 1 . THINK'ST thou I saw thy beauteous eyes , Suffused in tears , implore to stay ; And heard unmoved thy plenteous sighs , Which said far more than words can say ...
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Strona 331 - Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun: Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light!
Strona 225 - ... shows That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose ; Convincing all, by demonstration plain, Poetic souls delight in prose insane ; And Christmas stories tortured into rhyme Contain the essence of the true sublime. Thus, when he tells the tale of Betty Foy, The idiot mother of
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Strona 18 - No marble marks thy couch of lowly sleep, But living statues there are seen to weep ; Affliction's semblance bends not o'er thy tomb, Affliction's self deplores thy youthful doom.
Strona 145 - Years have roll'd on, Loch na Garr, since I left you, Years must elapse, ere I tread you again: Nature of verdure and flowers has bereft you, Yet still are you dearer than Albion's plain: England! thy beauties are tame and domestic, To one who has rov'd on the mountains afar: Oh! for the crags that are wild and majestic, The steep, frowning glories of dark Loch na Garr.