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Aubrey Thomas De Vere. SELECT POETRY . GEOFFREY CHAUCER . [ Born 1328 - died 1400. ] We know but little of the great Father of English Poetry , the " well of English undefiled , " as he has been aptly named ; but that little is ...
Aubrey Thomas De Vere. SELECT POETRY . GEOFFREY CHAUCER . [ Born 1328 - died 1400. ] We know but little of the great Father of English Poetry , the " well of English undefiled , " as he has been aptly named ; but that little is ...
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... died suddenly at the council - table in the year 1608. Sackville was one of our earliest tragic writers , and contributed a legend to the Mirror for Magistrates . He was as celebrated for his eloquence as for his political talents and ...
... died suddenly at the council - table in the year 1608. Sackville was one of our earliest tragic writers , and contributed a legend to the Mirror for Magistrates . He was as celebrated for his eloquence as for his political talents and ...
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... died on the field of Zutphen . His character is happily illustrated by a well - known trait . A cup of water had been brought to assuage his dying thirst ; he waved it away , pointing to a wounded sol- dier beside him , and saying ...
... died on the field of Zutphen . His character is happily illustrated by a well - known trait . A cup of water had been brought to assuage his dying thirst ; he waved it away , pointing to a wounded sol- dier beside him , and saying ...
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... died A.D. 1593 . In genius he was a forerunner of Shakespeare . Unfortunately his moral being stood in no proportion to his intellectual ; and thus was lost to the world one who would have ranked among her greatest poets . The religious ...
... died A.D. 1593 . In genius he was a forerunner of Shakespeare . Unfortunately his moral being stood in no proportion to his intellectual ; and thus was lost to the world one who would have ranked among her greatest poets . The religious ...
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... died in the Tower of London . He was thrown into prison in 1592 , where he re- mained three years , during which time he was put on the rack ten several times . Nothing could be proved against him , except what he confessed ; -that he ...
... died in the Tower of London . He was thrown into prison in 1592 , where he re- mained three years , during which time he was put on the rack ten several times . Nothing could be proved against him , except what he confessed ; -that he ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 253 - Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too, While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day...
Seite 254 - Away ! away ! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of poesy...
Seite 252 - Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness ! Close bosom-friend of the maturing Sun ! Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run ; To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core...
Seite 248 - I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
Seite 47 - The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade. Beware Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Seite 18 - And we will sit upon the rocks, Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals. And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle...
Seite 94 - Enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Seite 149 - The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death...
Seite 152 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view ; I knew him well, and every truant knew. Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face...
Seite 44 - Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp ? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons' difference ; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind ; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say, — This is no flattery : these are counsellors, That feelingly persuade me what I am.