The Liberal: Verse and Prose from the South, Volumes 1-2John Hunt, 1822 |
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... sight , which is more than can be said for the Laureate , who hath thought proper . to make him talk , not " like a school divine , " but like the unscholarlike Mr. Southey . The whole action passes on the outside of Heaven ; and ...
... sight , which is more than can be said for the Laureate , who hath thought proper . to make him talk , not " like a school divine , " but like the unscholarlike Mr. Southey . The whole action passes on the outside of Heaven ; and ...
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... sight He stood , the puzzle only was increased ; The man was a phantasmagoria in Himself - he was so volatile and thin ! LXXVIII . The moment that you had pronounced him one , Presto ! his face changed , and he was another ; And when ...
... sight He stood , the puzzle only was increased ; The man was a phantasmagoria in Himself - he was so volatile and thin ! LXXVIII . The moment that you had pronounced him one , Presto ! his face changed , and he was another ; And when ...
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... sight of Dianora d'Amerigo to make Ippolito fall violently in love with her . It was in church on a great holiday . In the South the church has ever been the place where people fall in love . It is there that the young of both sexes ...
... sight of Dianora d'Amerigo to make Ippolito fall violently in love with her . It was in church on a great holiday . In the South the church has ever been the place where people fall in love . It is there that the young of both sexes ...
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... sight of his unknown beauty . He made haste to plant himself at the door , telling his companion that he should like to see the ladies come out ; for he had not the courage to say which lady . When he saw Dianora appear , he changed ...
... sight of his unknown beauty . He made haste to plant himself at the door , telling his companion that he should like to see the ladies come out ; for he had not the courage to say which lady . When he saw Dianora appear , he changed ...
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... sight of his mistress , when the word Death fell on him like a thunderbolt . The origin of a sen- tence so severe was but too plain to every body ; but the Bardi were uppermost that day ; and the city , exhausted by some late party ...
... sight of his mistress , when the word Death fell on him like a thunderbolt . The origin of a sen- tence so severe was but too plain to every body ; but the Bardi were uppermost that day ; and the city , exhausted by some late party ...
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Page 86 - Cesario; it is old and plain: The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Page 117 - Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita Mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, Chè la diritta via era smarrita.
Page 163 - AND it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Page 395 - I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, When the winds are breathing low, And the stars are shining bright; I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feet Has led me — who knows how? — To thy chamber window, sweet ! The wandering airs, they faint On the dark, the silent stream — The champak odors fail Like sweet thoughts in a dream; The nightingale's complaint, It dies upon her heart, As I must die on thine, O, beloved as thou art!
Page 47 - Than wood-nymph, or the fairest goddess feign'd Of three that in mount Ida naked strove, Stood to entertain her guest from heaven ; no veil She needed, virtue-proof; no thought infirm Alter'd her cheek.
Page 395 - O, lift me from the grass! I die, I faint, I fail! Let thy love in kisses rain On my lips and eyelids pale. My cheek is cold and white, alas ! My heart beats loud and fast: Oh! press it close to thine again, Where it will break at last ! Very few, perhaps, are familiar with these lines — yet no less a poet than Shelley is their author.
Page 24 - ... even beyond my hopes. I returned home well satisfied. The sun that was still labouring pale and wan through the sky, obscured by thick mists, seemed an emblem of the good cause; and the cold dank drops of dew that hung half melted on the beard of the thistle, had something genial and refreshing in them; for there was a spirit of hope and youth in all nature, that turned every thing into good.
Page 18 - He ever warr'd with freedom and the free : " Nations as men, home subjects, foreign foes, " So that they utter'd the word ' Liberty !' " Found George the Third their first opponent. Whose " History was ever stain'd as his will be " With national and individual woes ? " I grant his household abstinence ; I grant " His neutral virtues, which most monarchs want ; XLVI.
Page 38 - There was a severe, worn pressure of thought about his temples, a fire in his eye (as if he saw something in objects more than the outward appearance...
Page 3 - SAINT Peter sat by the celestial gate, His keys were rusty, and the lock was dull, So little trouble had been given of late ; Not that the place by any means was full, But since the Gallic era " eighty-eight," The devils had ta'en a longer, stronger pull, And "a pull altogether," as they say At sea— which drew most souls another way.