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... ! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is famed to do , deceiving elf . Adieu ! adieu ! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows , over the still stream , Up the hill - side ; and now ' tis 8 To the Nightingale .
... ! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is famed to do , deceiving elf . Adieu ! adieu ! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows , over the still stream , Up the hill - side ; and now ' tis 8 To the Nightingale .
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Penny readings Joseph Edwards Carpenter. Up the hill - side ; and now ' tis buried deep In the next valley - glades : Was it a vision , or a waking dream ? Fled is that music : -do I wake or sleep ? ( Keats's Poems , in “ Smith's ...
Penny readings Joseph Edwards Carpenter. Up the hill - side ; and now ' tis buried deep In the next valley - glades : Was it a vision , or a waking dream ? Fled is that music : -do I wake or sleep ? ( Keats's Poems , in “ Smith's ...
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... side , The ship is sinking beneath the tide . But even now , in his dying fear , One dreadful sound could the rover hear , A sound as if with the Inchcape Bell The fiends in triumph were ringing his knell . THE OCEAN . LORD BYRON . OH ...
... side , The ship is sinking beneath the tide . But even now , in his dying fear , One dreadful sound could the rover hear , A sound as if with the Inchcape Bell The fiends in triumph were ringing his knell . THE OCEAN . LORD BYRON . OH ...
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... side by side , He slumbers now with his churchyard bride , By the bonny green woods of Killeevy . SCENE FROM VENICE PRESERVED . THOMAS OTWAY . [ Otway's career was one of those that are constantly pointed out as a warning to others ...
... side by side , He slumbers now with his churchyard bride , By the bonny green woods of Killeevy . SCENE FROM VENICE PRESERVED . THOMAS OTWAY . [ Otway's career was one of those that are constantly pointed out as a warning to others ...
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... side which , in truth , belongs to a hen - pecked husband . Rip's sole domestic adherent was his dog Wolf , who was as much hen - pecked as his master ; for Dame Van Winkle regarded them as companions in idleness , and even looked upon ...
... side which , in truth , belongs to a hen - pecked husband . Rip's sole domestic adherent was his dog Wolf , who was as much hen - pecked as his master ; for Dame Van Winkle regarded them as companions in idleness , and even looked upon ...
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Page 109 - But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we; Of many far wiser than we ; And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE. For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE ; And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE.
Page 153 - Julius bleed for justice' sake ? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice? What ! shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers, shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honours For so much trash as may be grasped thus ? I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.
Page 35 - twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Page 154 - I did send to you For certain sums of gold, which you denied me; — For I can raise no money by vile means : By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash, By any indirection. I did send To you for gold to pay my legions, Which you denied me: Was that done like Cassius ? Should I have answer'd Caius Cassius so?
Page 166 - ... twere the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now, this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one must, in your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Page 155 - O Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb That carries anger as the flint bears fire ; Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark, And straight is cold again.
Page 6 - With Spanish yew so strong, Arrows a cloth-yard long, That like to serpents stung, Piercing the weather; None from his fellow starts, But playing manly parts, And like true English hearts, Stuck close together. When down their bows they threw, And forth their bilboes...