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Page 128 - the tribune Flavius scatters a rabble of citizens with the following words ‘ Hence ! home, you idle creatures, get you home: Is this a holiday ? What ! know you not, Being mechanical, you ought not walk Upon a laboring day, without the sign Of your profession ? Speak, what trade art thou?'
Page 36 - even those, are now offer'd to your view cur'd, and perfect of their limbes; and all the rest, absolute in their numbers, as he conceived them. Who, as he was a happie imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it. His mind and hand went
Page 128 - Many a time and oft Have you climbed up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The livelong day with patient expectation To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome :‘ etc.
Page 59 - 336: Or if your influence be quite dammed up With black usurping mists, some gentle taper, Though a rushcandle from the wicker hole Of some clay habitatiOn, visit us With thy long levelled rule of streaming light, And thou shalt be our star of Arcady, Or Tyrian Cynosure.
Page 34 - of the Ancient Mariner and the following stanza from the Faerie Queene: A litle lowly Hermitage it was, Down in a dale, hard by a forests side, Far from resort of people that did pas In traveill to and froe: a litle wide There was an holy chappell edifyde, Wherein the Hermite dewly wont to say His holy thinges each
Page 222 - Now I imagine you seized with a fine romantic kind of melancholy on the fading of the year ; now I figure you wandering, philosophical and pensive, amidst the brown, withered groves, while the leaves rustle under your feet, the sun gives a farewell, parting gleam . . Then again when the heavens wear a
Page 175 - An envious sliver broke; When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide; And, mermaidlike, awhile they bore her up: Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes.
Page 255 - 2. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Page 255 - 4. Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Forbade to wade
Page 134 - not. For these modern languages will at one time or other, play the bankrupt with books : and since I have lost much time with this age, I would be glad, as God shall give me leave, to recover it with posterity.