Heroes of Literature: English Poets. A Book for Young ReadersSociety for promoting Christian knowledge, 1883 - 406 páginas |
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... died in 1400 , and lies buried , as is meet , in the famous Abbey which has since received so many of his noble brotherhood . Between that period and the sixteenth century there is nothing in English verse likely to detain the young ...
... died in 1400 , and lies buried , as is meet , in the famous Abbey which has since received so many of his noble brotherhood . Between that period and the sixteenth century there is nothing in English verse likely to detain the young ...
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... died at the comparatively early age of forty - six , and the other at fifty - three , there were no indications that the fountain of their genius was dried up . Edmund Spenser was Shakespeare's senior by twelve years , and as a poet he ...
... died at the comparatively early age of forty - six , and the other at fifty - three , there were no indications that the fountain of their genius was dried up . Edmund Spenser was Shakespeare's senior by twelve years , and as a poet he ...
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... died . he was buried in Westminster Abbey . Yet we know not who were the parents of this splendid poet , or whether he was an only child ; the date even of his birth is not absolutely certain ; and the writer who undertakes to tell the ...
... died . he was buried in Westminster Abbey . Yet we know not who were the parents of this splendid poet , or whether he was an only child ; the date even of his birth is not absolutely certain ; and the writer who undertakes to tell the ...
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... died shortly afterwards , in King Street , Westminster , apparently in great poverty . He was buried near Chaucer , in Westminster Abbey . 66 " His hearse , " writes Dean Stanley , was attended by poets , and mournful elegies and poems ...
... died shortly afterwards , in King Street , Westminster , apparently in great poverty . He was buried near Chaucer , in Westminster Abbey . 66 " His hearse , " writes Dean Stanley , was attended by poets , and mournful elegies and poems ...
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... died three years later than that poet . He has been styled by Southey " the tenderest of all tender poets " -a judgment which has in it more of affection than of criticism ; but the opinions expressed by Daniel's contemporaries are ...
... died three years later than that poet . He has been styled by Southey " the tenderest of all tender poets " -a judgment which has in it more of affection than of criticism ; but the opinions expressed by Daniel's contemporaries are ...
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Página 24 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Página 190 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Página 124 - These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation : and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune...
Página 92 - They are all gone into the world of light ! And I alone sit lingering here ; Their very memory is fair and bright, And my sad thoughts doth clear. It glows and glitters in my cloudy breast, Like stars upon some gloomy grove, Or those faint beams in which this hill is drest, After the sun's remove.
Página 254 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much: Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Página 238 - When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!
Página 271 - Here pause — and, thro' the starting tear, Survey this grave. The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know, And keenly felt the friendly glow, And softer flame ; But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name ! Reader, attend ! whether thy soul Soars fancy's flights beyond the pole, Or darkling grubs this earthly hole, In low pursuit ; Know, prudent, cautious, self-control Is wisdom's root.
Página 105 - A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall, and die that night; It was the plant, and flower of light. In small proportions, we just beauties see: And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Página 140 - Farewell, happy fields, Where joy for ever dwells ; hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place, or time.
Página 263 - I forget the hallowed grove, Where by the winding Ayr we met, To live one day of parting love ! Eternity will not efface Those records dear of transports past ; Thy image at our last embrace ; Ah ! little thought we 'twas our last ! Ayr gurgling kissed his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods, thickening, green ; The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twined amorous round the raptured scene.