Oxford: A PoemS. Collingwood; pub. by Whittaker, London, 1831 - 258 páginas |
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... Halls beheld , From age to age how college piles appear'd , Till , lo ! a University was rear'd . Ere yet the music of Messiah's name Had thrill'd the D 2 PART I. 27 OXFORD . Vile suff'rance sweet, and danger a delight, ...
... Halls beheld , From age to age how college piles appear'd , Till , lo ! a University was rear'd . Ere yet the music of Messiah's name Had thrill'd the D 2 PART I. 27 OXFORD . Vile suff'rance sweet, and danger a delight, ...
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... hand . " Montgomery's Catore , page 40 . Published March 1831 by Whittaker & Co Tondon Where once the grandest of the grand appear'd In all. ST MARYS CHURCH , IN THE STORM OF JUNE 15.1814 . ST MARYS CHURCH , IN THE STORM OF JUNE 15.1814 ...
... hand . " Montgomery's Catore , page 40 . Published March 1831 by Whittaker & Co Tondon Where once the grandest of the grand appear'd In all. ST MARYS CHURCH , IN THE STORM OF JUNE 15.1814 . ST MARYS CHURCH , IN THE STORM OF JUNE 15.1814 ...
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A Poem Robert Montgomery. Where once the grandest of the grand appear'd In all that Piety and Art could give , For eyes to worship , or a name to live.— What solemn beauty by the spirit felt ! While feelings into adoration melt , As in ...
A Poem Robert Montgomery. Where once the grandest of the grand appear'd In all that Piety and Art could give , For eyes to worship , or a name to live.— What solemn beauty by the spirit felt ! While feelings into adoration melt , As in ...
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A Poem Robert Montgomery. Descend from learning to the nearer view , Where Man appears in mortal colors true ; And where was piety more deeply shrined , Than in the temple of his awful mind , Whence day and night eternal incense rose To ...
A Poem Robert Montgomery. Descend from learning to the nearer view , Where Man appears in mortal colors true ; And where was piety more deeply shrined , Than in the temple of his awful mind , Whence day and night eternal incense rose To ...
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... he liv'd . Yet round the grandest soul How weakness hovers with a vile control ! - A grinning demon , whose contrasted sway Supremer wisdom cannot scorn away . As when some organ of the frame appears In matchless 54 PART I. OXFORD .
... he liv'd . Yet round the grandest soul How weakness hovers with a vile control ! - A grinning demon , whose contrasted sway Supremer wisdom cannot scorn away . As when some organ of the frame appears In matchless 54 PART I. OXFORD .
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Página 214 - O! why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine; Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
Página 187 - But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Página 202 - Hie, dum sublimis versus ructatur et errat, Si veluti merulis intentus decidit auceps In puteum foveamve, licet, ' Succurrite,
Página 188 - Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed.
Página 217 - Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears ; To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Página 223 - Twere well might Critics still this freedom take, But Appius reddens at each word you speak, And stares, tremendous, with a threat'ning eye, Like some fierce Tyrant in old tapestry.
Página 234 - Say, for you saw us, ye immortal lights, How oft unwearied have we spent the nights, Till the Ledaean stars, so famed for love, Wonder'd at us from above! We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine ; But search of deep Philosophy, Wit, Eloquence, and Poetry, Arts which I loved, for they, my friend, were thine.
Página 195 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among...
Página 213 - Wo to her stubborn heart, if once mine come Into the self-same room, 'Twill tear and blow up all within, Like a grenado shot into a magazin. Then shall Love keep the ashes, and torn parts, Of both our broken hearts : Shall out of both one new one make ; From her's th" allay; from mine, the metal take.
Página 194 - A poet, while living, is seldom an object sufficiently great to attract much attention ; his real merits are known but to a few, and these are generally sparing in their praises. When his fame is increased by time, it is then too late to investigate the peculiarities of his disposition ; the dews of morning are past, and we vainly try to continue the chase by the meridian splendor.