Lyra Anglicana: Or, Poetry, and Its English Representatives: A Poem in Four PartsGresham, 1856 - 100 σελίδες |
Άλλες εκδόσεις - Προβολή όλων
Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
Æther Aldhelm Amphibrach Bard baſed bleffings bofom breaſt bright cauſe cheer claffic cloſe conftant Cynewulf Dactyl Deſpair Deucalion diſplayed dreams e'en earth eaſe England's exiſtence fame fang fatiric fear feels fhew fimple fire firſt flaves flumber foaring fong foul freſh ftore fwell glory greateſt greatneſs heart Heaven heavenly Hope increaſing inſpire Johnſon language laſt lyre lyric meaſure melody Metre mind minstrel moft moſt Mufe Muſe muſt Nature's night noble o'er paffing paffions paſt phraſe Pindar pleaſe pleaſure Poefy Poet Poet's poetic Poetry praiſe preſent Profe reafon reft rehearſe rhyme rife riſe ſcale ſcene ſcorn ſeems ſenſe ſhade ſhare ſhone ſhould ſhow ſkill ſmile ſome ſong ſoul ſpeaks ſpeech ſpirit Spondee ſpread ſprings ſtar ſtate ſtill ſtore ſtrain ſtreams ſtrife ſtyle ſubject ſway ſweet taſk theme theſe thoſe Thought tongue treaſured Trochee TUPPER uſe vaft verſe voice whofe whoſe Wiſdom's words
Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 32 - The modeft fhun it, but to make it fure. O'er globes, and fceptres, now on thrones it fwells ; Now, trims the midnight lamp in college cells : 'Tis Tory, Whig ; it plots, prays, preaches, pleads.
Σελίδα 38 - PRAYER, the Church's banquet, Angel's age. God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage, The Christian plummet sounding heaven and earth ; Engine against th...
Σελίδα 7 - And as the sparks of social love expand, As the heart opens in a foreign land ; And with a brother's warmth, a brother's smile, The stranger greets each native of his isle ; So scenes of life, when present and confest, Stamp but their bolder features on the breast ; Yet not an image, when remotely viewed, However trivial, and however rude, But wins the heart, and wakes the social sigh. With every claim of close affinity ! But these pure joys the world can never know ; In gentler climes their silver...
Σελίδα 84 - The unknown are better, than ill known : Rumour can ope the grave. Acquaintance I would have, but when 't depends Not on the number, but the choice of friends. Books should, not business, entertain the light, And sleep, as undisturbed...
Σελίδα 49 - scaped the wrangling crew, From Pyrrho's maze, and Epicurus' sty ; And held high converse with the godlike few, Who to the enraptured heart, and ear, and eye, Teach beauty, virtue, truth, and love, and melody.
Σελίδα 53 - But who the melodies of morn can tell ? The wild brook babbling down the mountain side ; The lowing herd ; the sheepfold's simple bell; The pipe of early shepherd dim descried In the lone valley...
Σελίδα 10 - Hope, of all paffions, moft befriends us here; Paffions of prouder name befriend us lefs. Joy has her tears ; and trahfport has her death; Hope, like a cordial, innocent, tho...
Σελίδα 11 - Thine's the more hard and noble bliss; Best apprehender of our joys, which hast So long a reach, and yet canst hold so fast. Hope, thou sad lovers...
Σελίδα 76 - As on a stithe where that some work of fame Was daily wrought, to turn to Britain's gain. A visage stern and mild : where both did grow Vice to contemn, in virtue to rejoice ; Amid great storms whom grace assured so To live upright, and smile at fortune's choice.
Σελίδα 49 - OF all thofe arts in which the wife excel, Nature's chief mafter-piece is writing well: No writing lifts exalted man fo high, As facred and foul-moving poefy: No kind of work requires fo nice a touch; And, if well finifh'd, nothing mines fo much.