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... Queen 249. Character of Brutus ANONYMOUS 421 SOUTHEY 425 VARIOUS 433 DEFOE 441 ARCHDEACON HARE . 449 STEELE . TENNYSON 250. Introduction of Tea , & c . 251. Progress of Discontent 252. Habits of the Red Deer 253. Epitaphs 254. Remedies ...
... Queen 249. Character of Brutus ANONYMOUS 421 SOUTHEY 425 VARIOUS 433 DEFOE 441 ARCHDEACON HARE . 449 STEELE . TENNYSON 250. Introduction of Tea , & c . 251. Progress of Discontent 252. Habits of the Red Deer 253. Epitaphs 254. Remedies ...
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... Queen the praise be given ! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven , That slid into my soul . The silly buckets on the deck , That had so long remained , I dreamt that they were filled with dew ; And when I awoke , it rained . My lips ...
... Queen the praise be given ! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven , That slid into my soul . The silly buckets on the deck , That had so long remained , I dreamt that they were filled with dew ; And when I awoke , it rained . My lips ...
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... queens , thy Christmas revellings , Thy nut - brown mirth , thy russet wit , And no man pays too dear for it ; To these thou hast thy times to go And trace the hare i ' th ' treacherous snow ; Thy witty wiles to draw and get The lark ...
... queens , thy Christmas revellings , Thy nut - brown mirth , thy russet wit , And no man pays too dear for it ; To these thou hast thy times to go And trace the hare i ' th ' treacherous snow ; Thy witty wiles to draw and get The lark ...
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... Queen Anne's time have been gradually brought down from the supremacy which they had enjoyed , without competition , for the best part of a century . When we were at our studies , some twenty - five years ago , we can per- fectly ...
... Queen Anne's time have been gradually brought down from the supremacy which they had enjoyed , without competition , for the best part of a century . When we were at our studies , some twenty - five years ago , we can per- fectly ...
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... Queen Anne's wits , and to this praise they are justly entitled . This was left for them to do , and they did it well . They were invited to it by the circumstances of their situation , and do not seem to have been possessed of any such ...
... Queen Anne's wits , and to this praise they are justly entitled . This was left for them to do , and they did it well . They were invited to it by the circumstances of their situation , and do not seem to have been possessed of any such ...
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Página 100 - Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head, Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Página 191 - Maenad, even from the dim verge Of the horizon to the zenith's height, The locks of the approaching storm. Thou dirge Of the dying year...
Página 401 - This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Página 90 - All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
Página 192 - If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear; If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee; A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share The impulse of thy strength, only less free Than thou, O uncontrollable!
Página 90 - Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. About, about, in reel and rout The death-fires danced at night; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue, and white.
Página 96 - They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose, Nor spake, nor moved their eyes; It had been strange, even in a dream,! To have seen those dead men rise. The helmsman steered, the ship moved on; Yet never a breeze...
Página 18 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Página 100 - Is this the hill? is this the kirk? Is this mine own countree ? We drifted o'er the harbour-bar, And I with sobs did pray — O let me be awake, my God! Or let me sleep alway.
Página 91 - With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, We could nor laugh nor wail; Through utter drought all dumb we stood ! I bit my arm, I sucked .the blood, And cried, A sail! a sail! With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, Agape they heard me call : Gramercy! they for joy did grin, And all at once their breath drew in, As they were drinking all. See! see! (I cried) she tacks no more! Hither to work us weal; Without a breeze, without a tide, She steadies with upright keel!