The Laureateship: A Study of the Office of Poet Laureate in England, with Some Account of the Poets

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Clarendon Press, 1921 - 239페이지
 

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99 페이지 - He, who still wanting, tho' he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing left : And he, who now to sense, now nonsense leaning, '» Means not, but blunders round about a meaning...
188 페이지 - We have lost him : he is gone : We know him now : all narrow jealousies Are silent ; and we see him as he moved, How modest, kindly...
133 페이지 - How barbarous rage subsided at your word, And nations wonder'd while they dropp'd the sword ! How, when you nodded, o'er the land and deep, Peace stole her wing, and wrapt the world in sleep ; Till earth's...
179 페이지 - twas, besides, his bread, Of which he buttered both sides; 'twould delay Too long the assembly (he was pleased to dread), And take up rather more time than a day, To name his works — he would but cite a few — 'Wat Tyler'— 'Rhymes on Blenheim'— 'Waterloo'.
188 페이지 - For pleasure; but thro' all this tract of years Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens every blot...
179 페이지 - For all corrupted things are buoyed like corks, By their own rottenness, light as an elf, Or wisp that flits o'er a morass: he lurks, It may be, still, like dull books on a shelf, In his own den, to scrawl some 'Life' or 'Vision', As Welborn says — 'the devil turned precisian'.
195 페이지 - And that true North, whereof we lately heard A strain to shame us "keep you to yourselves; So loyal is too costly! friends - your love Is but a burthen: loose the bond, and go." Is this the tone of empire? here the faith That made us rulers? this, indeed, her voice And meaning, whom the roar of Hougoumont Left mightiest of all peoples under heaven?
204 페이지 - What is the Voice I hear On the wind of the Western Sea ? Sentinel ! Listen from out Cape Clear, And say what the voice may be. ' Tis a proud free People calling loud to a People proud and free.' ' And it says to them, " Kinsmen, hail ! We severed have been too long ; Now let us have done with a worn-out tale, The tale of an ancient wrong, And our friendship last long as Love doth last, and be stronger than Death is strong.
105 페이지 - Mr. Rowe accompanied me, and passed a week in the forest. I need not tell you how much a man of his turn entertained me ; but I must acquaint you, there is a vivacity and gaiety of disposition, almost peculiar to him, which make it impossible to part from him without that uneasiness which generally succeeds all our pleasure.
113 페이지 - Dryden's awful dust; Beneath a rude and nameless stone he lies, , To which thy tomb shall guide inquiring eyes. . '• ' Peace to thy gentle shade, and endless rest! Blest in thy genius, in thy love too blest ! One grateful woman to thy fame supplies What a whole thankless land to his denies.

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