Anne Boleyn, a dramatic poem. Fazio, a tragedy. Nala and Damayanti, and other poems, translated from the Sanscrit into English verse, with mythological and critical notes. The descent of the Ganges. The deluge, an ode. StanzasJ. Murry, 1840 |
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... hear the hymnings of some virgin choir , With pauses musical as music's self , Come swelling up from deep and unseen distance : Or under some vast dome , like Heaven's blue cope , All full and living with the liquid deluge Of harmony ...
... hear the hymnings of some virgin choir , With pauses musical as music's self , Come swelling up from deep and unseen distance : Or under some vast dome , like Heaven's blue cope , All full and living with the liquid deluge Of harmony ...
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... hear me more than once ; but word of praise From her had been a treasure , that my memory Had laid in store , for my whole life to brood on . ANGELO ( aside ) . So warm !. -I had forgot thy station , youth ; But with the great we rank ...
... hear me more than once ; but word of praise From her had been a treasure , that my memory Had laid in store , for my whole life to brood on . ANGELO ( aside ) . So warm !. -I had forgot thy station , youth ; But with the great we rank ...
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... hear Our harsher English tongue , by his smooth skill , And noble Surrey's , and learn'd Wyatt's , flow Melodious , as the honey - lipp'd Italian . ANGELO . ' Tis well . Thy orphan'd youth , I learn , Mark Smeaton , Wants that imperious ...
... hear Our harsher English tongue , by his smooth skill , And noble Surrey's , and learn'd Wyatt's , flow Melodious , as the honey - lipp'd Italian . ANGELO . ' Tis well . Thy orphan'd youth , I learn , Mark Smeaton , Wants that imperious ...
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... hear these solemn arguments Upon these laughter - loving lips . LADY ROCHFORD . Your Highness Is ever thus , or gladdening with your mirth Or teaching with your wisdom . QUEEN . Lady Rochford , Might I not add that thou art ever ...
... hear these solemn arguments Upon these laughter - loving lips . LADY ROCHFORD . Your Highness Is ever thus , or gladdening with your mirth Or teaching with your wisdom . QUEEN . Lady Rochford , Might I not add that thou art ever ...
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... hear it ? QUEEN . Most willingly , it suits the hour for eve , That steals so softly on the quiet world , Seems made for solemn music , even as nature Breathed silence over all in earth and Heaven , Vocal alone with grateful man's ...
... hear it ? QUEEN . Most willingly , it suits the hour for eve , That steals so softly on the quiet world , Seems made for solemn music , even as nature Breathed silence over all in earth and Heaven , Vocal alone with grateful man's ...
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ALDABELLA ANGELO Anne Boleyn Asiatic Researches Ayodhya behold BIANCA birds bliss Bopp Brahmin breath cast charioteer cold court curse Damayanti DANDOLO dark daughter death deed deep dice dost doth dread DUKE dwell e'en elephants eyes FALSETTO father FAZIO fire GARDINER gazed gentle gods Grace grief guilty hand hath hear heard heart Heaven holy honour husband Indra Kali Kesinia king Nala LADY ROCHFORD lips live lord of earth MAGDALENE MARK SMEATON Meghaduta Menu mighty monarch mother Nala ne'er Nishadha's king noble NORREYS o'er palace PHILARIO Pushkara QUEEN raja Ramayana rich royal sage shalt SIR HENRY NORREYS SIR WILLIAM KINGSTON sire smile sorrow soul spake speak spirit steeds Stephen Gardiner sweet thee There's thine thou hast thou wilt thou'rt thought thyself truth Twas Vahuca Vedas Vidarbha's voice weep wife wild WILSON WILTSHIRE words wretched Yakshas youth
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Page 339 - But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and knew not, until the flood came, and took them all away ; so shall also ' the coming of the Son of man be.
Page 301 - By a son a man obtains victory over all people; by a son's son he enjoys immortality; and afterwards by the son of that grandson he reaches the solar abode.
Page 307 - Never to recede from combat, to protect the people, and to honour the priests, is the highest duty of kings and ensures their felicity. 89. Those rulers of the earth, who, desirous of defeating each other, exert their utmost strength in battle, without ever averting their faces, ascend after death directly to heaven.
Page 72 - Of those thy myriad barks mak'st passing music : Oh ! thou great silent city, with thy spires And palaces, where I was once the greatest, The happiest I, whose presence made a tumult In all your wondering streets and jocund marts : But most of all, thou cool and twilight air, That art a rapture to the breath ! The slave, The beggar, the most base down-trodden outcast, The plague-struck livid wretch...
Page 244 - Many a hill and many a cavern many a bright and wondrous stream, Saw king Bhima's wandering daughter as she sought her husband lost. Long she roamed her weary journey Damayanti with sweet smile, Lo, a caravan of merchants elephants, and steeds, and cars, And beyond, a pleasant river with its waters cool and clear. 'Twas a...
Page 330 - By censuring his preceptor, though justly, he will be born an ass ; by falsely defaming him, a dog ; by using his goods without leave, a small worm ; by envying his merit, a larger insect or reptile.
Page 165 - Twas with the old rich senator him him him The man with a brief name : 'twas gaming, dicing, Riotously drinking. Oh it was not there ; 'Twas any where but there or if it was, Why like a sly and creeping adder sting me With thy black tidings ? Nay, nay : good my friend ; Here's money for those harsh intemperate words.
Page 124 - With tatter'd remnants of a money-bag, Through cobwebs and thick dust I spied his face, Like some dry wither-boned anatomy, Through a huge chest-lid, jealously and scantily Uplifted, peering upon coin and jewels, Ingots and wedges, and broad bars of gold, Upon whose lustre the wan light shone muddily, As though the New World had outrun the Spaniard, And emptied all its mines in that coarse hovel. His ferret eyes gloated as wanton o'er them, As a gross Satyr on a sleeping Nymph ; And then, as he heard...
Page 297 - Himavan its loftiest peak. There at length it came, and smiling thus the fish addressed the sage : To the peak of Himalaya, bind thou now thy stately ship." At the fish's mandate quickly to the peak of Himavan Bound the sage his bark, and ever to this day, that loftiest peak, Bears the name of Manhubandhan from the binding of the bark.
Page 172 - In calm and natural current : to sum all In one wild name a name the pale air freezes at, And every cheek of man sinks in with horror Thou art a cold and midnight murderer.