Alaric Watts: A Narrative of His Life, 第 2 巻R. Bentley, 1884 |
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120 ページ - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring. Or chasms and wat'ry depths ; all these have vanished They live no longer in the faith of reason...
276 ページ - That it is the bounden duty of the responsible advisers of the crown to recommend to his majesty for grants of pensions on the civil list such persons only as have just claims on the royal beneficence, or who, by their personal services to the crown, by the performance of duties to the public, or by their useful discoveries in science, and attainments in literature and the arts, have merited the gracious consideration of their Sovereign, and the gratitude of their country.
334 ページ - Nor ease nor peace that heart can know, That, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe ; But, turning, trembles too.
85 ページ - Less ready for a vulgar hoax, Addicted less to pothouse jokes, And all the rough, plebeian horse-play He will so oft without remorse play. Give him a glass or two of whisky, And in a trice he grows so frisky, So full of frolic, fun, and satire, So ready dirt around to scatter, And so impartial in his blows, They fall alike on friends and foes. Nay, rather than his humour balk, His mother's son he'd tomahawk ! And so he can but set once more His boon companions 'in a roar...
152 ページ - Poet's a planet that's brightest apart — Let him revel at will in the world of the heart ; But the moment he strives 'mid the crush of the throng, Like a bird too much handled, he loses his song ; And the fools wont to worship his light from afar, Are the first to proclaim him no longer a star. Hie thee back to the Harp that beguiled thee of yore, And return to the strife of the many no more ! Dismiss the small junta that wait on thy nod — Such a coterie deserve no such Bard for their god ; To...
340 ページ - Stretched out a forest wide. The summer sun shone on the trees, The deer lay in the shade; And overhead the singing birds Their pleasant clamour made.
252 ページ - To most men, experience is like the stern-lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.
132 ページ - I had the gratification to receive from him in the year 1826) from mere courtesy that I assure you that your name is respected by me. I have had the satisfaction of reading many of your poems. I particularly call to mind two—" The Death of the First-Born/ and " My own Fireside ;" to have written which would have been an honourable distinction to any one.
264 ページ - Reft of all else, to thee I cleave, Content if thou art nigh ; Whene'er thou grievest, I will grieve, And where thou diest, die ! And may the Lord, whose hand hath wrought This weight of misery, Afflict me so, and more, if aught But death part thee and me ! NAAMAN'S SERVANT. KEBLE. — LYRA INNOCENTIUM. " Who hath despised the day of small things?