Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volym 1Carey and Hart, 1842 |
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... Poor Sandy - why on thy pale face that melancholy smile ! -Peter ! The gaff ! The gaff ! Into the eddy she sails , sick and slow , and almost with a swirl - whitening as she nears the sand - there she has it - struck right into the ...
... Poor Sandy - why on thy pale face that melancholy smile ! -Peter ! The gaff ! The gaff ! Into the eddy she sails , sick and slow , and almost with a swirl - whitening as she nears the sand - there she has it - struck right into the ...
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... Poor Ponto is much to be pitied . Either having a cold in his nose , or having ante - breakfasted by stealth on a red - herring , he can scent nothing short of a badger , and , every other field , he starts in horror , shame , and amaze ...
... Poor Ponto is much to be pitied . Either having a cold in his nose , or having ante - breakfasted by stealth on a red - herring , he can scent nothing short of a badger , and , every other field , he starts in horror , shame , and amaze ...
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... poor pussie sitting with open eyes fast asleep ! The pellets are in her brain , and turning herself over , she crunkles out to her full length , like a piece of untwisting Indian - rubber , and is dead . The pos- terior pouch of the ...
... poor pussie sitting with open eyes fast asleep ! The pellets are in her brain , and turning herself over , she crunkles out to her full length , like a piece of untwisting Indian - rubber , and is dead . The pos- terior pouch of the ...
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... poor Ponto ? Lord Kennedy himself might take a lesson now from the straight and steady style in which , on the mountain - brow , and up to the middle in heather , he brings his Manton to the deadly level ! More unerring eye never ...
... poor Ponto ? Lord Kennedy himself might take a lesson now from the straight and steady style in which , on the mountain - brow , and up to the middle in heather , he brings his Manton to the deadly level ! More unerring eye never ...
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... poor paws , fur - protected from the sharp flints that lame the fiends that so sorely beset her , till many limp along in their own blood . Now along the coping of stone walls she crawls and scrambles - and now ventures from the wood ...
... poor paws , fur - protected from the sharp flints that lame the fiends that so sorely beset her , till many limp along in their own blood . Now along the coping of stone walls she crawls and scrambles - and now ventures from the wood ...
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Sida 271 - What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower...
Sida 270 - Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore...
Sida 243 - Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men, and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect...
Sida 205 - ... the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature.
Sida 297 - Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Sida 264 - The invaluable works of our elder writers, I had almost said the works of Shakespeare and Milton, are driven into neglect by frantic novels, sickly and stupid German Tragedies, and deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse...
Sida 298 - All things that love the sun are out of doors; The sky rejoices in the morning's birth; The grass is bright with rain-drops; — on the moors The hare is running races in her mirth; And with her feet she from the plashy earth Raises a mist, that, glittering in the sun Runs with her all the way, wherever she doth run.
Sida 209 - Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire. These ears, alas ! for other notes repine ; A different object do these eyes require ; My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine ; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire...
Sida 207 - The language, too, of these men has been adopted (purified indeed from what appear to be its real defects, from all lasting and rational causes of dislike or disgust) because such men hourly communicate with the best objects from which the best part of language is originally derived...
Sida 297 - MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.