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... beautiful strain of allegory , explains the origin of Comus , and shows how that at last , " ――― Comus betakes him to this ominous wood , And in thick shelter of deep shades embower'd , Excels his mother at her mighty art , Offering to ...
... beautiful strain of allegory , explains the origin of Comus , and shows how that at last , " ――― Comus betakes him to this ominous wood , And in thick shelter of deep shades embower'd , Excels his mother at her mighty art , Offering to ...
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... beautiful than that of the virgin taking confidence from a gleam of light shot from the moon amidst the troubled clouds , when she invokes Echo in a sweeter me- lody than ever yet received an answer from its " aëry shell . " Here ...
... beautiful than that of the virgin taking confidence from a gleam of light shot from the moon amidst the troubled clouds , when she invokes Echo in a sweeter me- lody than ever yet received an answer from its " aëry shell . " Here ...
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... beautiful Eau de Cologne From his lofty chateau , For he felt but so so- His stock , peradventure , of spi- rits , was low , Or , perhaps , lay in bond In the Docks of Despond , - But he reckoned himself , some particular star Had ...
... beautiful Eau de Cologne From his lofty chateau , For he felt but so so- His stock , peradventure , of spi- rits , was low , Or , perhaps , lay in bond In the Docks of Despond , - But he reckoned himself , some particular star Had ...
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... beautiful and well - known anthem , " I will arise , " by Robert Creyghton , canon of Wells Cathedral , and many compositions by Dr. Aldrich , who was Vice - Chancellor of Oxford . It was not then deemed derogatory for a clergyman or ...
... beautiful and well - known anthem , " I will arise , " by Robert Creyghton , canon of Wells Cathedral , and many compositions by Dr. Aldrich , who was Vice - Chancellor of Oxford . It was not then deemed derogatory for a clergyman or ...
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... beautiful one , and a bathe would have been delightful ; but no , it was delayed from hour to hour , until the evening ; and as we left the cottage , ' Well ! Better late than never , ' was the exclamation , as usual . It was still fine ...
... beautiful one , and a bathe would have been delightful ; but no , it was delayed from hour to hour , until the evening ; and as we left the cottage , ' Well ! Better late than never , ' was the exclamation , as usual . It was still fine ...
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Page 9 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Page 8 - Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence.
Page 399 - In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets...
Page 426 - Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him : but weep sore for him that goeth away : for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.
Page 525 - I wanted to see the whites," said he ; "I came away from my own people to see the whites, and I wouldn't care to die among them ; but here" — and he looked around into the cold night and gloomy forest, and, drawing his blanket over his head, began again to lament. Seated around the tree, the fire illuminating the rocks and the tall bolls of the pines round about, and the old Indian haranguing, we presented a group of very serious faces.
Page 527 - Monterey; and still forced on south by a desert on one hand, and a mountain range on the other; guided by a civilized Indian, attended by two wild ones from the Sierra; a Chinook from the Columbia; and our own mixture of American, French, German — all armed; four or five languages heard at once ; above a hundred horses and mules, half wild; American, Spanish, and Indian dresses and equipments intermingled — such was our composition.
Page 525 - Rock upon rock — rock upon rock — snow upon snow — snow upon snow," said he; "even if you get over the snow, you will not be able to get down from the mountains." He made us the sign of precipices, and showed us how the feet of the horses would slip, and throw them off from the narrow trails which led along their sides.
Page 520 - ... and the spray, which was thrown into the boat and over our clothes, was directly converted into a crust of common salt, which covered also our hands and arms.
Page 9 - Peace, brother : be not over-exquisite To cast the fashion of uncertain evils : For grant they be so, while they rest unknown, What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid...
Page 8 - Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i