Bell's Edition, Volumes 25-26J. Bell, 1800 |
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... bid farewell : Thine in my heart , where my soul dwells , shall dwell ; ' Tis like me now , but , I dead , ' twill be more , When we are shadows both , than ' twas before When weather - beaten I come back , my hand 12 ELEGIES .
... bid farewell : Thine in my heart , where my soul dwells , shall dwell ; ' Tis like me now , but , I dead , ' twill be more , When we are shadows both , than ' twas before When weather - beaten I come back , my hand 12 ELEGIES .
Page 39
... twas he That made me cast you guilty , and you me ; Whilst he ( black wretch ! ) betray'd each simple word , We spake unto the cunning of a third . Curst may he be that so our love hath slain , 1 And wander on the earth wretched as Cain ...
... twas he That made me cast you guilty , and you me ; Whilst he ( black wretch ! ) betray'd each simple word , We spake unto the cunning of a third . Curst may he be that so our love hath slain , 1 And wander on the earth wretched as Cain ...
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... Twas heavy then to hear thy voice of moan ; But this is worse that thou art speechless grown . " 30 Thou hast forgot thy name thou hadst ; thou wast Nothing but she , and her thou hast o'erpast ; " For as a child kept from the font ...
... Twas heavy then to hear thy voice of moan ; But this is worse that thou art speechless grown . " 30 Thou hast forgot thy name thou hadst ; thou wast Nothing but she , and her thou hast o'erpast ; " For as a child kept from the font ...
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... Twas but a thro ' - light scarf her mind t'enroll , Or exhalation breath'd out from her souli One whom all men , who durst no more , admir'd , And whom whoe'er had worth enough desir'd . As when a temple's built saints emulate To which ...
... Twas but a thro ' - light scarf her mind t'enroll , Or exhalation breath'd out from her souli One whom all men , who durst no more , admir'd , And whom whoe'er had worth enough desir'd . As when a temple's built saints emulate To which ...
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... Twas but a thro ' - light scarf her mind t'enroll W I Or exhalation breath'd out from her soul ; دو One whom all men , who durst no more , admir'd , And whom whoe'er had worth enough desir'd ..... на : As when a temple's built saints ...
... Twas but a thro ' - light scarf her mind t'enroll W I Or exhalation breath'd out from her soul ; دو One whom all men , who durst no more , admir'd , And whom whoe'er had worth enough desir'd ..... на : As when a temple's built saints ...
Common terms and phrases
Æneas Androgeus angels arms beauty blood body breast Calchas Carthage cold ashes Cooper's Hill COUNTESS OF BEDFORD court dark dead death Dido Donne dost doth dwell Dymas earth ELEGY ev'n ev'ry eyes fair faith fall fate father fear fire flame force friends gave give gods gold gone grace grave grief grow hand hate hath heart heav'n honour hope Hugh Peters Hypanis immortal kings kiss leave less live lost lov'd man's mind Muse Nature never numbers pain plac'd pleasure poets pow'r praise Priam prince Pyrrhus rage rhyme Samnites seem'd sense shalt Sir John Denham soul stood Tarentum tears thee thence thine things thou art thou hast thou know'st thoughts thro thyself triumph Trojan Troy Twas twixt unto us'd verse virtue whilst wise words wound youth
Popular passages
Page 189 - No crime so bold but would be understood A real, or at least, a seeming good. Who fears not to do ill, yet fears the name, And, free from conscience, is a slave to fame. Thus he the church at once protects and spoils ; But princes' swords are sharper than their styles : And thus to th' ages past he makes amends, Their charity destroys, their faith defends.
Page 191 - Brings home to us, and makes both Indies ours; Finds wealth where 'tis, bestows it where it wants, Cities in deserts, woods in cities plants; So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange.
Page 190 - Can knowledge have no bound, but must advance So far, to make us wish for ignorance, And rather in the dark to grope our way Than, led by a false guide, to err by day...
Page 173 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Page 193 - But his proud head the airy mountain hides among the clouds ; his shoulders and his sides a shady mantle clothes ; his curled brows frown on the gentle stream, which calmly flows, while winds and storms his lofty forehead beat; the common fate of all that's high or great.
Page 190 - My eye, descending from the Hill, surveys Where Thames among the wanton valleys strays. Thames ! the most loved of all the Ocean's sons, By his old sire, to his embraces runs, Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity ; Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber, and their gravel gold * : His genuine and less guilty...
Page 185 - Sure there are poets which did never dream upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream • of Helicon ; we therefore may suppose those made not poets, but the poets those...
Page 173 - is the work that confers upon him the rank and dignity of an original author. He seems to have been, at least among us, the author of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to b« poetically described with the addition of such embellishments as may be supplied by historical retrospection or incidental meditation.
Page 173 - The lines are in themselves not perfect ; for most of the words, thus artfully opposed, are to be understood simply on one side of the comparison, and metaphorically on the other ; and if there be any language which does not express intellectual operations, by material images, into that language they cannot be translated.
Page xi - But whither am I stray'd ? I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise : Nor is thy fame on lesser ruins built, Nor needs thy juster title the foul guilt Of Eastern kings, who, to secure their reign, Must have their brothers, sons, and kindred slain.