Poetry for Schools: Designed for Reading and Recitation : the Whole Selected from the Best Poets in the English LanguageW.E. Dean, 1842 - 348 oldal |
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... Greek , to relish , or to reason upon . For the same reason we never can be aware of the fulness of some of the finest passages of Shakspeare , ( To be or not to be , ' for instance , ) from the habit of having them hammered into us at ...
... Greek , to relish , or to reason upon . For the same reason we never can be aware of the fulness of some of the finest passages of Shakspeare , ( To be or not to be , ' for instance , ) from the habit of having them hammered into us at ...
x. oldal
... Greek Poets , 214 Eschylus , 214 Scene from the Tragedy of Eschylus , Potter's Translation , 217 Sophocles , 220 Antigone , 220 Antigone and Ismene , Franklin's Sophocles , 222 Euripides , 224 Iphigenia , 226 Scene from the Tragedy of ...
... Greek Poets , 214 Eschylus , 214 Scene from the Tragedy of Eschylus , Potter's Translation , 217 Sophocles , 220 Antigone , 220 Antigone and Ismene , Franklin's Sophocles , 222 Euripides , 224 Iphigenia , 226 Scene from the Tragedy of ...
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... Greek and Latin , and from the modern languages of Europe , besides a few from the oriental , or Asiatic languages . Our poetry , ( for whatever is written in the English language properly belongs to the Ameri- cans who speak it , ) is ...
... Greek and Latin , and from the modern languages of Europe , besides a few from the oriental , or Asiatic languages . Our poetry , ( for whatever is written in the English language properly belongs to the Ameri- cans who speak it , ) is ...
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... Greeks and Trojans , which are described by Homer in many successive books of the Iliad ; and the catastrophe , or end of the poem , is the death of Hector , the Trojan prince who alone could defend Troy . The destruction of that city ...
... Greeks and Trojans , which are described by Homer in many successive books of the Iliad ; and the catastrophe , or end of the poem , is the death of Hector , the Trojan prince who alone could defend Troy . The destruction of that city ...
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... Greek and Latin tragedies were translated into English as early as 1566. During the last twenty years of the sixteenth century , play - writers by profession were common , but their names and works have now , for the most part , become ...
... Greek and Latin tragedies were translated into English as early as 1566. During the last twenty years of the sixteenth century , play - writers by profession were common , but their names and works have now , for the most part , become ...
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Æschylus Ajut ancient Anningait arms Babylon battle beautiful behold beneath blood-hound bosom Branksome breath bright brothers called chief chivalry Comus courser crown Cymbeline dark dead death deep divine dread Druid earth Elidurus England English English poetry Euripides eyes fair father fear fell flowers gave genius gentle glory grace grave Greece Greeks hand hath head heard heart heaven Hector holy honour human Iliad immortal king king of England Lady land light living Lord Lord Byron Lycian Milton mind Minstrel mountain never night noble o'er Patroclus persons poem poet poetry Polynices praise prince queen Rizpah rock Romans Rome round Sarpedon says Shakspeare shore Sir Walter Scott smile soft song Sophocles sorrow soul spirit stood sweet tears thee thine thou thought throne toil tomb Troy Ulysses verses voice wave wild wind wings woods young
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248. oldal - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms, — the day Battle's...
31. oldal - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
56. oldal - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.
247. oldal - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark!
300. oldal - Twas autumn, and sunshine arose on the way To the home of my fathers, that welcomed me back. I flew to the pleasant fields traversed so oft In life's morning march, when my bosom was young ; I heard my own mountain-goats bleating aloft, And knew the sweet strain that the corn-reapers sung.
248. oldal - Gathering" rose! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard ; and heard, too, have her Saxon foes : — How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill ! But with the breath which fills Their mountain-pipe, so fill the mountaineers With the fierce native daring which instils The stirring memory of a thousand years, And Evan's, Donald's fame rings in each clansman's ears...
48. oldal - Eugh, obedient to the benders will ; The Birch for shaftes ; the Sallow for the mill ; The Mirrhe sweete-bleeding in the bitter wound ; The warlike Beech ; the Ash for nothing ill ; The fruitful! Olive ; and the Platane round ; The carver Holme ; the Maple seeldom inward sound.
248. oldal - ... mounting in hot haste : the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While thronged the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips, — "The foe! They come! They come!
300. oldal - By the wolf-scaring faggot that guarded the slain, At the dead of the night a sweet Vision I saw; And thrice ere the morning I dreamt it again.
84. oldal - Henceforth I learn that to obey is best, And love with fear the only God, to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend...