Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British PoetsRoutledge, 1863 - 706 Seiten |
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... Ireland , as his private secretary . In this post he is said to have displayed great talents for business . He wrote a " Discourse on the State of Ireland , " containing many decided plans for the improve- ment of that country . In 1581 ...
... Ireland , as his private secretary . In this post he is said to have displayed great talents for business . He wrote a " Discourse on the State of Ireland , " containing many decided plans for the improve- ment of that country . In 1581 ...
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... Ireland , wrote his second three cantos , and , bringing them over in 1596 , published them ; and also printed and published his Discourse on the State of Ireland , as a defence of his patron Lord Grey's policy there . From the ...
... Ireland , wrote his second three cantos , and , bringing them over in 1596 , published them ; and also printed and published his Discourse on the State of Ireland , as a defence of his patron Lord Grey's policy there . From the ...
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... Ireland to the British Crown was called the Plantation of Munster . The scheme , which was first put in operation on this vast confiscated territory of the Earl of Desmond , is thus described in Smith's History of Cork : - " All ...
... Ireland to the British Crown was called the Plantation of Munster . The scheme , which was first put in operation on this vast confiscated territory of the Earl of Desmond , is thus described in Smith's History of Cork : - " All ...
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... Ireland generally , in his poems . The Faerie Queene , Colin Clout , and his two cantos on Mutabilitie , " abound with allegorical or actual descriptions of his Irish life , and of the scenery , and especially the rivers , about his ...
... Ireland generally , in his poems . The Faerie Queene , Colin Clout , and his two cantos on Mutabilitie , " abound with allegorical or actual descriptions of his Irish life , and of the scenery , and especially the rivers , about his ...
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... Ireland in 1724 , a true descendant of Edmund Spenser , who bore his name , had a trial before Baron Hall , and he knew so little of the English tongue that he was forced to have an interpreter . Now , Mr. Smith informed me that not ...
... Ireland in 1724 , a true descendant of Edmund Spenser , who bore his name , had a trial before Baron Hall , and he knew so little of the English tongue that he was forced to have an interpreter . Now , Mr. Smith informed me that not ...
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Seite 200 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor...
Seite 193 - Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds : Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign.
Seite 202 - Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place ; The white-wash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door ; The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day...
Seite 205 - A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place; Unpractised he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise.
Seite 34 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Seite 295 - Homer ruled as his demesne: Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Seite 272 - Dupe of to-morrow even from a child. Thus many a sad to-morrow came and went, Till all my stock of infant sorrow spent, I learned at last submission to my lot, But, though I less deplored thee, ne'er forgot. Where once we dwelt our name is heard no more, Children not thine have trod my nursery floor ; And where the gardener, Robin, day by day, Drew me to school along the public way, Delighted with my bauble coach, and wrapped In scarlet mantle warm, and velvet cap, 'Tis now become a history little...
Seite 306 - And then I clasped my hands, and looked around — (But none was near to mock my streaming eyes, Which poured their warm drops on the sunny ground) — So without shame I spake — I will be wise, And just, and free, and mild, if in me lies Such power ; for I grow weary to behold The selfish and the strong still tyrannize Without reproach or check.
Seite 192 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Seite 59 - Enow of such, as for their bellies' sake Creep and intrude and climb into the fold! Of other care they little reckoning make Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest; Blind mouths!