Penny readings in prose and verse, selected and ed. by J.E. Carpenter, Volume 61867 |
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... night near him , put on their spurs , mounted their horses , and galloped off to their several homes to have an eye to their own interests . The king's servants and some vassals of inferior rank proceeded to rifle the apartments of the ...
... night near him , put on their spurs , mounted their horses , and galloped off to their several homes to have an eye to their own interests . The king's servants and some vassals of inferior rank proceeded to rifle the apartments of the ...
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... night , how changed the scene ! His iron mood Stern Winter has resumed . Drives the fierce blast along ! How fast the snow - flakes fall ! " The floods lift up their voice ! " All is mad revelry and savage rout , Within , let smiles of ...
... night , how changed the scene ! His iron mood Stern Winter has resumed . Drives the fierce blast along ! How fast the snow - flakes fall ! " The floods lift up their voice ! " All is mad revelry and savage rout , Within , let smiles of ...
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... night ! good night ! " from fond lips fall . How silent now the lonely hall ! ( By permission of the Author . ) THE PILGRIMS AND THE PEAS . DR . JOHN WOLCOTT ( PETER PINdar ) . A BRACE of sinners , for no good , Were ordered to the ...
... night ! good night ! " from fond lips fall . How silent now the lonely hall ! ( By permission of the Author . ) THE PILGRIMS AND THE PEAS . DR . JOHN WOLCOTT ( PETER PINdar ) . A BRACE of sinners , for no good , Were ordered to the ...
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... night long , And wishes it beside him , With kissing lips that cool And soft did overglide him , To make the sweetness full . Look up , O mourning mother , Thy blind boy walks in light ! Ye wait for one another , Before God's infinite ...
... night long , And wishes it beside him , With kissing lips that cool And soft did overglide him , To make the sweetness full . Look up , O mourning mother , Thy blind boy walks in light ! Ye wait for one another , Before God's infinite ...
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... than Man just now ! Courage ! crush'd and stricken Rachel , Weeping blood - drops day and night , Recollect , the darkest storm - clouds Have a lining bright ! And no cloud by Him is sent That's not fleec'd 16 Little Charlie .
... than Man just now ! Courage ! crush'd and stricken Rachel , Weeping blood - drops day and night , Recollect , the darkest storm - clouds Have a lining bright ! And no cloud by Him is sent That's not fleec'd 16 Little Charlie .
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Page 134 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
Page 137 - Twas but a kindred sound to move, For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble ; Honour but an empty bubble...
Page 159 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them...
Page 133 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Page 188 - Colder and louder blew the wind, A gale from the northeast, The snow fell hissing in the brine, And the billows frothed like yeast. Down came the storm, and smote amain The vessel in its strength ; She shuddered and paused, like a frighted steed, Then leaped her cable's length. "Come hither! come hither! my little daughter, And do not tremble so; For I can weather the roughest gale That ever wind did blow.
Page 135 - TWAS at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son: Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...
Page 138 - Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise! See the snakes that they rear How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Page 171 - Gainst the hot season; the mid-forest brake, Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms; And such too is the grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead ; All lovely tales that we have heard or read: An endless fountain of immortal drink, Pouring unto us from the Heaven's brink.
Page 41 - Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground I Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow, The world should listen then, as I am listening now.
Page 77 - ALL worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its immortality ! I saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulf of Time ! I...