The Althorp Picture Gallery: And Other Poetical SketchesBlackwood, 1836 - 163 páginas |
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... land had bowed to them ; They shone the worshipped stars in courtly crowd ; High nobles were their slaves - proud was their stem— And minstrel - harps their charms had loudly sung ; Enrobed and diademed in halls they stood ; The son of ...
... land had bowed to them ; They shone the worshipped stars in courtly crowd ; High nobles were their slaves - proud was their stem— And minstrel - harps their charms had loudly sung ; Enrobed and diademed in halls they stood ; The son of ...
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... land Whose myriads , thus outpouring , send a voice In one deep swell ; and with an eager hand Hold forth the laurel - crown to Victory's Choice- The Soldier - Duke , whose tread bids England's shores rejoice ! XXIX . But now we need no ...
... land Whose myriads , thus outpouring , send a voice In one deep swell ; and with an eager hand Hold forth the laurel - crown to Victory's Choice- The Soldier - Duke , whose tread bids England's shores rejoice ! XXIX . But now we need no ...
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... land- A flower that blooms to gladden weary life : Thy height of mental worth who may demand , In varying name of Mother , Daughter , Wife ? And who may know how soon Corruption's stain Shall gather o'er the pureness of the mind , And ...
... land- A flower that blooms to gladden weary life : Thy height of mental worth who may demand , In varying name of Mother , Daughter , Wife ? And who may know how soon Corruption's stain Shall gather o'er the pureness of the mind , And ...
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... land , What glowing forms , beneath its fervid skies , Start - ripening to the touch of Beauty's hand ! What radiance in the down - cast floating eyes ! What polished shades play o'er the coal - black hair , Braided with pride above the ...
... land , What glowing forms , beneath its fervid skies , Start - ripening to the touch of Beauty's hand ! What radiance in the down - cast floating eyes ! What polished shades play o'er the coal - black hair , Braided with pride above the ...
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... land ! We spy No high - toned feeling in this homely front ; ' Tis daring -- coarse - yet bold and bright the eye , Oft acted o'er the tongue's deceit , feigned blunt And free ! and thus he scaled the Throne in danger's brunt ! LX . Now ...
... land ! We spy No high - toned feeling in this homely front ; ' Tis daring -- coarse - yet bold and bright the eye , Oft acted o'er the tongue's deceit , feigned blunt And free ! and thus he scaled the Throne in danger's brunt ! LX . Now ...
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ABERDEEN ALTHORP PICTURE GALLERY amid anguish bark beams beauty beneath blooming blue bosom breast breath bright bright eyes brow burning calm Castlemaine Cenotaph cheek cloud cold dark death deep deep calm Diana of Poitiers dost doth drooping Duchess of Marlborough e'er fair fancy fierce flash fled floating flower gaze gently glad glance glow grace grief gush hath heart Henrietta Maria lifeless light lips lone look Lord Sunderland Love's lustre lyre marriage mind mirth mourning musing ne'er Neath o'er Ocean's orbs pale passion pride proud proudly pure quenched rapt rapture rays rich round scenes shade shadowy shines shone sigh slumbering smile soft sorrow soul soul's sparkling spirit stray stream sweet swell tear thee thine thou wert thought Thrills throng throw tones tremblers turn twined voice waves weep wend whilst wild young
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Página 143 - And — but for that sad, shrouded eye, That fires not, wins not, weeps not now ; And but for that chill, changeless brow, Whose touch thrills with mortality, And curdles to the gazer's heart...
Página 149 - Last night, her lord was all that's good and great ; A knave this morning, and his will a cheat. Strange ! by the means defeated of the ends, By spirit...
Página 143 - Her picture at Windsor is the most perfectly beautiful and impressive female portrait I ever saw. How have I longed, when gazing at it, to conjure her out of her frame, and bid her reveal the secret of her mysterious life and death ! — Nearly opposite to the dead Venitia, in strange contrast, hangs her husband, who loved her to madness, or was mad before he married her, in the very prime of life and youth. This picture, by Cornelius Jansen, is as fine as any thing of Vandyke's : the character expresses...
Página 144 - Could Nature then no private woman grace, Whom we might dare to love, with such a face, Such a complexion, and so radiant eyes, Such lovely motion, and such sharp replies?
Página 146 - ... and blooming; the second, far more interesting, was painted about the time of her marriage with the young Earl of Sunderland, or shor.tly after — very sweet and lady-like. I should say that the highbreeding of the face and air was more conspicuous than the beauty; the neck and hands exquisite. Both these are Vandyke's. A third picture represents her about the time of her second marriage : the expression wholly changed — cold, sad, faded, but pretty still: one might fancy her contemplating,...
Página 144 - Davenant styles her, very beautifully, " The richeyed darling of a monarch's breast." Lord Holland, in the description he sent from Paris, dwells on the charm of her eyes, her smile, and her graceful figure, though he admits her to be rather petite; and if the poet and the courtier be distrusted, we have the authority of the puritanic Sir Symond d'Ewes, who allows the influence of her " excellent and sparkling black eyes.