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... wild and exalted fancy . Poetry has many advantages for children over both these classes of writing . The magic of ryme is felt in the very cradle - the mother and the nurse employ it as a spell of soothing power . The taste for harmony ...
... wild and exalted fancy . Poetry has many advantages for children over both these classes of writing . The magic of ryme is felt in the very cradle - the mother and the nurse employ it as a spell of soothing power . The taste for harmony ...
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... Wild Afs The Lion Pase Scott & I Scott 82 Scott 83 83 Lloyd Thelwall Cowper Mifs More Cunningham . Anon . Anon Gay Parnel Langhorne Watts • Scott Whitehead • 89 93 94 95 96 97 98 . 99 99 Warton · 100 Blacklock · 101 Original • ΤΟΙ ...
... Wild Afs The Lion Pase Scott & I Scott 82 Scott 83 83 Lloyd Thelwall Cowper Mifs More Cunningham . Anon . Anon Gay Parnel Langhorne Watts • Scott Whitehead • 89 93 94 95 96 97 98 . 99 99 Warton · 100 Blacklock · 101 Original • ΤΟΙ ...
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... wild - duck's early brood . 13 . WARTON . INDIA . WHERE facred Ganges pours along the plain , And Indus rolls to fwell the eastern main , What awful feenes the curious mind delight , What wonders burst upon the dazzled fight ! There ...
... wild - duck's early brood . 13 . WARTON . INDIA . WHERE facred Ganges pours along the plain , And Indus rolls to fwell the eastern main , What awful feenes the curious mind delight , What wonders burst upon the dazzled fight ! There ...
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... wild domain 21 Where wolves prowl round the flocks of Spain , Where filk - worms fpin , and olives grow , And mules plod furely on and flow . Steering then for many a day Far to fouth our course away , From Gibraltar's rocky steep ...
... wild domain 21 Where wolves prowl round the flocks of Spain , Where filk - worms fpin , and olives grow , And mules plod furely on and flow . Steering then for many a day Far to fouth our course away , From Gibraltar's rocky steep ...
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... Wild mountain wolves the fainting beaft fur- round . Just as their jaws his proftrate limbs invade , The lion rushes thro ' the woodland shade : The wolves , tho ' hungry , fcour difpers'd away ; The lordly favage vindicates his prey ...
... Wild mountain wolves the fainting beaft fur- round . Just as their jaws his proftrate limbs invade , The lion rushes thro ' the woodland shade : The wolves , tho ' hungry , fcour difpers'd away ; The lordly favage vindicates his prey ...
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Page 141 - But who the melodies of morn can tell ? The wild brook babbling down the mountain side : The lowing herd ; the sheepfold's simple bell ; The pipe of early shepherd dim descried In the lone valley ; echoing far and wide The clamorous horn along the cliffs above ; The hollow murmur of the ocean tide ; The hum of bees, the linnet's lay of love, And the full choir that wakes the universal grove.
Page 22 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground ; Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in Summer yield him shade, In Winter fire.
Page 88 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Page 32 - You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man ; Now tell me the reason, I pray. In the days of my youth...
Page 73 - While, lightly poised, the scaly brood In myriads cleave thy crystal flood ; The springing trout in speckled pride, The salmon, monarch of the tide ; The ruthless pike, intent on war, The silver eel, and mottled par. Devolving from thy parent lake, A charming maze thy waters make, By bowers of birch and groves of pine, And hedges flower'd with eglantine.
Page 107 - While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
Page 59 - Ye mute Companions of my Toils, that bear In all my Griefs a more than equal Share!
Page 62 - By wintry famine rous'd, from all the tract Of horrid mountains which the shining Alps, And wavy Apennine, and Pyrenees, Branch out stupendous into distant lands; Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave; Burning for blood; bony, and gaunt, and grim. Assembling wolves in raging troops descend; And, pouring o'er the country, bear along, Keen as the north wind sweeps the glossy snow. All is their prize.
Page 22 - ... shade. In winter fire. Blest, who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years slide soft away. In health of body, peace of mind, Quiet by day. Sound sleep by night; study and ease, Together mixt; sweet recreation: And innocence, which most does please With meditation.
Page 126 - On foreign mountains may the Sun refine The grape's soft juice, and mellow it to wine, With citron groves adorn a distant soil, And the fat olive swell with floods of oil : We envy not the warmer clime, that lies...