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... Friends 219 212 .. 177. The Dying Christian to his Soul .. 183. Thomas Parnell , 1679-1718 . Hymn to Contentment 221 213 184. Edward Young , 1681-1765 . 178. Jonathan Swift , 1667-1745 . Procrastination 223 185. Joseph Addison , 1672 ...
... Friends 219 212 .. 177. The Dying Christian to his Soul .. 183. Thomas Parnell , 1679-1718 . Hymn to Contentment 221 213 184. Edward Young , 1681-1765 . 178. Jonathan Swift , 1667-1745 . Procrastination 223 185. Joseph Addison , 1672 ...
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... friend ; And said they , he might best them keep If their charge he undertook , Till his son might bear Helm on head , and lead out host , ( In his hand a sturdy spear ) And king of Denmark should be made . 1 This is clearly a mistake ...
... friend ; And said they , he might best them keep If their charge he undertook , Till his son might bear Helm on head , and lead out host , ( In his hand a sturdy spear ) And king of Denmark should be made . 1 This is clearly a mistake ...
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... friendship sworn , each promise kept so just , Wherewith we past the winter nights away . And with this thought the blood forsakes the face ; The tears berain my cheeks of deadly hue : The which , as soon as sobbing sighs , alas ...
... friendship sworn , each promise kept so just , Wherewith we past the winter nights away . And with this thought the blood forsakes the face ; The tears berain my cheeks of deadly hue : The which , as soon as sobbing sighs , alas ...
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... of her blindness ; Tell Nature of decay ; Tell Friendship of unkindness ; Tell Justice of delay : And if they do reply , Then give them all the lie . Tell Arts they have no soundness , But vary by 52 CHAP . I SIR WALTER RALEIGH .
... of her blindness ; Tell Nature of decay ; Tell Friendship of unkindness ; Tell Justice of delay : And if they do reply , Then give them all the lie . Tell Arts they have no soundness , But vary by 52 CHAP . I SIR WALTER RALEIGH .
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... friends , that he had no reason to desire to be secretary in the declination of a monarchy . The first man took hold of it , and found means it was told the queen ; who hearing of a declination of a monarchy , took it so ill , as she ...
... friends , that he had no reason to desire to be secretary in the declination of a monarchy . The first man took hold of it , and found means it was told the queen ; who hearing of a declination of a monarchy , took it so ill , as she ...
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Page 406 - Flying from something that he dreads, than one Who sought the thing he loved. For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was all in all. - I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest...
Page 162 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning, chide, "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?
Page 359 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street: On with the dance! let joy be unconfined ; No sleep till morn, when youth and pleasure meet To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
Page 363 - The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war : These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — • Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters...
Page 299 - The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Page 149 - Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.
Page 301 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled...
Page 394 - O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Page 301 - Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day.
Page 360 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While thronged the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips - 'The foe! they come! they come!