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... lived . You will have to hunt very diligently through his description of the Knight , the Squire , the Yeoman , the Prioress , the Monk , the Merchant , the Sergeant of the Law , the Franklin , the Miller , the Manciple , and the rest ...
... lived . You will have to hunt very diligently through his description of the Knight , the Squire , the Yeoman , the Prioress , the Monk , the Merchant , the Sergeant of the Law , the Franklin , the Miller , the Manciple , and the rest ...
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... of admiration for honest poverty . They are fundamentally tender , and , though expressed in manly fashion enough , fundamentally feminine , the poetry of a man who lived habitually FEMININE NOTE IN ENGLISH POETRY 43.
... of admiration for honest poverty . They are fundamentally tender , and , though expressed in manly fashion enough , fundamentally feminine , the poetry of a man who lived habitually FEMININE NOTE IN ENGLISH POETRY 43.
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Prose Papers on Poetry Alfred Austin. feminine , the poetry of a man who lived habitually under the influence of women . I think it will be allowed that I have given no grudging admiration to the feminine note in English poetry , and in ...
Prose Papers on Poetry Alfred Austin. feminine , the poetry of a man who lived habitually under the influence of women . I think it will be allowed that I have given no grudging admiration to the feminine note in English poetry , and in ...
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... lived , to say that they could sound only notes of love . They sounded these sometimes , but seldom and rarely , in comparison with their other and more masculine notes , and always in due subordination to these . I will not go so - far ...
... lived , to say that they could sound only notes of love . They sounded these sometimes , but seldom and rarely , in comparison with their other and more masculine notes , and always in due subordination to these . I will not go so - far ...
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... lived in his neighbourhood , and been familiar with his country . Alas ! even the best of us are mortal ; and we accept this graceful passage as Mr. Arnold's confession that he , too , is a Wordsworthian against whom we must be on our ...
... lived in his neighbourhood , and been familiar with his country . Alas ! even the best of us are mortal ; and we accept this graceful passage as Mr. Arnold's confession that he , too , is a Wordsworthian against whom we must be on our ...
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Page 112 - Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain ; 0 listen ! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. No Nightingale did ever chaunt More welcome notes to weary bands Of travellers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands : A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides. Will no one tell me what she sings...
Page 176 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan...
Page 64 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing, startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Page 78 - When the year 1900 is turned, and our nation comes to recount her poetic glories in the century which has then just ended, the first names with her will be these.
Page 44 - Reaper Behold her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reaping and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass! Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain; O listen! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound.
Page 17 - Yes, I am proud ; I must be proud to see Men, not afraid of God, afraid of me ; Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch'd and sham'd by ridicule alone.
Page 113 - Whate'er the theme, the Maiden sang As if her song could have no ending; I saw her singing at her work, And o'er the sickle bending;— I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
Page 64 - Haste thee nymph and bring with thee Jest and youthful jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles. Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled care derides. And laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe...
Page 36 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Page 6 - THERE was a roaring in the wind all night ; The rain came heavily and fell in floods ; But now the sun is rising calm and bright ; The birds are singing in the distant woods...