The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: With a Memoir of the Author ...Little, Brown, 1860 |
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Seite 242 - How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
Seite 170 - One man in this most aweful point of time Draws on thy danger, as he caused thy crime. Wait not too long the event, For now whole Europe comes against thee bent, His wiles and their own strength the nations know : Wise from past wrongs, on future peace intent, The People and the Princes, with one mind, From all parts move against the general foe : One act of justice, one atoning blow, One execrable head laid low, Even yet, O France ! averts thy punishment.
Seite 54 - The palor spaniel, when she heard his step, Rose slowly from the hearth, and stole aside With creeping pace ; she never raised her eyes To woo kind words from him, nor laid her head Upraised upon his knee, with fondling whine.
Seite 140 - Unsheltered else, and many an ample port, Repel the assailing storm ; and where his roads, In beautiful and sinuous line far seen, "Wind with the vale, and win the long ascent, Now o'er the deep morass sustained, and now Across ravine or glen or estuary, Opening a passage through the wilds subdued.
Seite 71 - The cataract strong Then plunges along, Striking and raging As if a war waging Its caverns and rocks among ; Rising and leaping, Sinking and creeping, Swelling and sweeping, Showering and springing Flying and flinging, Writhing and ringing, Eddying and whisking, Spouting and frisking, Turning and twisting, Around and around With endless rebound : Smiting and fighting, A sight to delight in ; Confounding, astounding, Dizzying and deafening the ear with its s.
Seite 88 - But the soles in the bill were ten shillings; Tell your master, quoth he, what I say; If he charges at this rate for all things, He must be in a pretty good way.
Seite 50 - Of the comedy hath wakened wiser thoughts ; And I bless God, that, when I go to the grave, There will not be the weight of wealth like his To sink me down. STRANGER. The camel and the needle, — Is that, then, in your mind ? TOWNSMAN. Even so. The text Is gospel-wisdom.
Seite 84 - Fine progress they make in our liberal opinions, My Utilitarians, My all sorts of — inians And all sorts of — arians ; My all sorts of — ists, And my Prigs and my Whigs...
Seite 151 - IN happy hour doth he receive The Laurel, meed of famous Bards of yore, Which Dryden and diviner Spenser wore, . . In happy hour, and well may he rejoice, Whose earliest task must be To raise the exultant hymn for victory...
Seite 71 - Collecting, projecting, Receding and speeding, And shocking and rocking, And darting and parting, And threading and spreading, And whizzing and hissing, And dripping and skipping, And hitting and splitting, And shining and twining, And rattling and battling, And shaking and...