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... poem , in four duans , dedicated to Lord Clon- curry . Before its appearance it had been submitted to the perusal of ... poems , in a dialogue between St. Patrick and the bard every way unfortunate . Ossian , who describes his visit to ...
... poem , in four duans , dedicated to Lord Clon- curry . Before its appearance it had been submitted to the perusal of ... poems , in a dialogue between St. Patrick and the bard every way unfortunate . Ossian , who describes his visit to ...
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... poetic genius ; and it would seem that the stormy passages of his life , arising out of his relations with the Kalbs and Berlespshs , were of unquestionable advantage to him in the way of enabling him to complete his " Titan . " At this ...
... poetic genius ; and it would seem that the stormy passages of his life , arising out of his relations with the Kalbs and Berlespshs , were of unquestionable advantage to him in the way of enabling him to complete his " Titan . " At this ...
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... poets in our own country twenty years since one , of high birth , pursued a brief meteoric career , dazzling in its occasional brilliancy , but obscured by sin and the fearful display of noble powers misused for evil , and his fitful ...
... poets in our own country twenty years since one , of high birth , pursued a brief meteoric career , dazzling in its occasional brilliancy , but obscured by sin and the fearful display of noble powers misused for evil , and his fitful ...
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... poem sung of liberty and regicide in incoherent strains , and recommended unlimited stabbing of all who were not sufficiently attached to the right cause . We have never seen this work , but we have an impression that it was intended as ...
... poem sung of liberty and regicide in incoherent strains , and recommended unlimited stabbing of all who were not sufficiently attached to the right cause . We have never seen this work , but we have an impression that it was intended as ...
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... poem , in after life , he expressed himself in terms sufficiently condemnatory , show- ing that few of its readers can ever have had a worse opinion of it than its author had . He says , in a letter to the Editor of the Examiner ...
... poem , in after life , he expressed himself in terms sufficiently condemnatory , show- ing that few of its readers can ever have had a worse opinion of it than its author had . He says , in a letter to the Editor of the Examiner ...
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Página 192 - Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time. Soon as the woods on shore look dim, We'll sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn. Row, brothers, row ! the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight's past...
Página 223 - Ben. Battle was a soldier bold, And used to war's alarms; But a cannon-ball took off his legs, So he laid down his arms. Now as they bore him off the field, Said he, "Let others shoot; For here I leave my second leg, And the Forty-second Foot.
Página 27 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all: And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Página 95 - Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear, Until we hardly see, we feel that it is there. All the earth and air With thy voice is loud, As, when night is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed.
Página 125 - But, as it sometimes chanceth, from the might Of joy in minds that can no further go, As high as we have mounted in delight In our dejection do we sink as low...
Página 228 - Two sudden blows with a ragged stick, And one with a heavy stone, One hurried gash with a hasty knife, — And then the deed was done : There was nothing lying at my foot But lifeless flesh and bone!
Página 95 - What thou art we know not: what is most like thee? From rainbow clouds there flow not drops so bright to see, as from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a poet hidden in the light of thought, singing hymns unbidden till the world is wrought to sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not.
Página 186 - But the night-dew that falls, though in silence it weeps, Shall brighten with verdure the grave where he sleeps ; And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.
Página 95 - To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night ; To defy Power which seems omnipotent ; To love, and bear ; to hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates...
Página 16 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.