The Literary Reader: Typical Selections Form Some of the Best British and American Authors, from Shakespeare to the Present Time, Chronologically Arranged : with Biographical and Critical Sketches and Numerous Notes |
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... heard , But not intentively . I did consent ; And often did beguile her of her tears , When I did speak of some distressful stroke That my youth suffered . My story being done , She gave me for my pains a world of sighs : She swore In ...
... heard , But not intentively . I did consent ; And often did beguile her of her tears , When I did speak of some distressful stroke That my youth suffered . My story being done , She gave me for my pains a world of sighs : She swore In ...
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... heard the cry of a pack of dogs . He had not listened long before he saw the apparition of a milk - white steed , with a young man on the back of it , advancing upon full stretch after the souls of about an hundred beagles , that were ...
... heard the cry of a pack of dogs . He had not listened long before he saw the apparition of a milk - white steed , with a young man on the back of it , advancing upon full stretch after the souls of about an hundred beagles , that were ...
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... heard no more . The sides of the mountains were covered with trees , the banks of the brooks were diversified with flowers ; every blast shook spices from the rocks , and every month dropped fruits upon the ground . All animals that ...
... heard no more . The sides of the mountains were covered with trees , the banks of the brooks were diversified with flowers ; every blast shook spices from the rocks , and every month dropped fruits upon the ground . All animals that ...
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... heard , Never sighed at the sound of a knell , Or smiled when a Sabbath appeared . Ye winds that have made me your sport , Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more . My friends , do ...
... heard , Never sighed at the sound of a knell , Or smiled when a Sabbath appeared . Ye winds that have made me your sport , Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more . My friends , do ...
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... application was made to the three who were deemed most worthy of the trial . Abdallah , the son of Abbas , had undertaken a distant journey , and his foot was in the " " stirrup when he heard the voice of a GIBBON . 47.
... application was made to the three who were deemed most worthy of the trial . Abdallah , the son of Abbas , had undertaken a distant journey , and his foot was in the " " stirrup when he heard the voice of a GIBBON . 47.
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Page 118 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, — The desert and illimitable air, — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome laud, Though the dark night is near.
Page 8 - OF Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed, In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth Rose out of Chaos...
Page 244 - I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea: But we loved with a love that was more than love — I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me.
Page 37 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Page 4 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death — The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveler returns — puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Page 208 - At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast. The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes; And he saw her hair, like the brown sea-weed, On the billows fall and rise. Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow! Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe!
Page 115 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 28 - WE were now treading that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. 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...
Page 5 - Neither a borrower, nor a lender be : For loan oft loses both itself and friend : And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Page xiv - To the very moment that he bade me tell it. Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents, by flood, and field ; Of hair-breadth scapes i...