Penny readings in prose and verse, selected and ed. by J.E. Carpenter, Volume 61867 |
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Page 112
... thou have ? my life is in thy power . Prior . Most wretched man , whose fears alone betray thee- What art thou ? -speak ! Str . Thou sayest I am a wretch , And thou sayest true - these weeds do witness it— These wave - worn weeds ...
... thou have ? my life is in thy power . Prior . Most wretched man , whose fears alone betray thee- What art thou ? -speak ! Str . Thou sayest I am a wretch , And thou sayest true - these weeds do witness it— These wave - worn weeds ...
Page 113
... thou couldst gain no secret from my_ravings . Prior . Thy secrets ! wretched man , I reck not of them ; But I adjure ... Art thou a man , or fiend , who speakest thus ? Str . I was a man ; I know not what I am-- What others ' crimes and ...
... thou couldst gain no secret from my_ravings . Prior . Thy secrets ! wretched man , I reck not of them ; But I adjure ... Art thou a man , or fiend , who speakest thus ? Str . I was a man ; I know not what I am-- What others ' crimes and ...
Page 114
... thou betray me ? Prior . Lives there the wretch beneath these walls to do it ? Sorrow enough hath bowed thy head ... art ) Some desperate burst of passion will betray thee , And end in mortal scathe- ( A pause . ) Why dost thou gaze on ...
... thou betray me ? Prior . Lives there the wretch beneath these walls to do it ? Sorrow enough hath bowed thy head ... art ) Some desperate burst of passion will betray thee , And end in mortal scathe- ( A pause . ) Why dost thou gaze on ...
Page 115
... Thou wilt not meet him ; many a day must pass Till from Palermo's walls he wend him homeward , Where now he tarries ... art thou come ; this is no time for greet- ing- Help - bear him off - thou see'st his fearful state . [ Exeunt ...
... Thou wilt not meet him ; many a day must pass Till from Palermo's walls he wend him homeward , Where now he tarries ... art thou come ; this is no time for greet- ing- Help - bear him off - thou see'st his fearful state . [ Exeunt ...
Page 122
... art , his thoughts and his style bear evidence that it was from the study of ... thou slowly sail'st about , In pitiless ears full many a plaintive thing ... Thou gettest many a brush , and many a curse , For saying thou art gaunt , and ...
... art , his thoughts and his style bear evidence that it was from the study of ... thou slowly sail'st about , In pitiless ears full many a plaintive thing ... Thou gettest many a brush , and many a curse , For saying thou art gaunt , and ...
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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...