The Etonian, Volume 3Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt H. Colburn and Company and C. Knight., 1824 |
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... thou to flit o'er Fancy's eye . Or art thou but a sound , In fragrance floating round , The whisper of some rural Deity ; Who , stretch'd in grotto calm , With breath of purest balm , Is warbling to the Nymph's delicious minstrelsy ? Oh ...
... thou to flit o'er Fancy's eye . Or art thou but a sound , In fragrance floating round , The whisper of some rural Deity ; Who , stretch'd in grotto calm , With breath of purest balm , Is warbling to the Nymph's delicious minstrelsy ? Oh ...
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... thou glidest on , new freshness from the ground . Thou breathest on my brow , I feel thy kisses now , Thy cooling kisses : —but what charm was this ? For oh ! those kisses bore A joy unfelt before , A momentary , strange , imaginative ...
... thou glidest on , new freshness from the ground . Thou breathest on my brow , I feel thy kisses now , Thy cooling kisses : —but what charm was this ? For oh ! those kisses bore A joy unfelt before , A momentary , strange , imaginative ...
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... thou didst catch her thought , With such calm rapture fraught , To breathe it o'er my weary soul , deliciously . Oh ! thou hast nought to do Upon the ocean blue , Filling with busy breath the mariner's sails ; No worldly dull employment , ...
... thou didst catch her thought , With such calm rapture fraught , To breathe it o'er my weary soul , deliciously . Oh ! thou hast nought to do Upon the ocean blue , Filling with busy breath the mariner's sails ; No worldly dull employment , ...
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... thou didst nurse , Were made more poignant by a nation's curse . Hark ! what wild shrieks from yonder lowly cell , Through stately halls and fretted galleries flow ; Resounding far with agonizing yell , From triple Snowdon's height to ...
... thou didst nurse , Were made more poignant by a nation's curse . Hark ! what wild shrieks from yonder lowly cell , Through stately halls and fretted galleries flow ; Resounding far with agonizing yell , From triple Snowdon's height to ...
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... thou view'd The dire effects of rage and deadly feud ; Oft hast thou screen'd the murderer's guilty hand , And shelter'd in thy walls the robber's band . Now that thy power is gone , thy greatness fled , Around thy turrets fearlessly I ...
... thou view'd The dire effects of rage and deadly feud ; Oft hast thou screen'd the murderer's guilty hand , And shelter'd in thy walls the robber's band . Now that thy power is gone , thy greatness fled , Around thy turrets fearlessly I ...
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Page 280 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die.
Page 263 - She, wretched matron, forc'd in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain.
Page 238 - A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place.
Page 285 - INFANT. ERE Sin could blight or Sorrow fade, Death came with friendly care ; The opening bud to Heaven conveyed And bade it blossom there.
Page 30 - And above the firmament that n-ii.H over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone : and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.
Page 30 - And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, \ saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.
Page 239 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 272 - And should we thither roam, Its echoes, and its empty tread, Would sound like voices from the dead ! Or shall we cross yon mountains blue, Whose streams my kindred nation quaff'd!
Page 31 - By four cherubic shapes ; four faces each Had wondrous ; as with stars, their bodies all, And wings, were set with eyes; with eyes the wheels Of beryl, and careering fires between...
Page 325 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath. That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.