Poetry Explained for the Use of Young PeopleJ. Johnson, 72, St. Paul's Churchyard., 1802 - 115 páginas |
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... stories told of many a feat , How fairy Mab the junkets eat ; She was pinch'd and pull'd , she said ; And he by friar's lantern led ; Tells how the drudging goblin swet To earn his cream - bowl duly set , When in one night , ere glimpse ...
... stories told of many a feat , How fairy Mab the junkets eat ; She was pinch'd and pull'd , she said ; And he by friar's lantern led ; Tells how the drudging goblin swet To earn his cream - bowl duly set , When in one night , ere glimpse ...
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... stories of Mab , queen of the fairies , who carried off some dainty which had been laid by . One of the maidens tells how she was pinched and pulled by the fairies ; whilst a young man re- lates how he was led astray by Will o'the Wisp ...
... stories of Mab , queen of the fairies , who carried off some dainty which had been laid by . One of the maidens tells how she was pinched and pulled by the fairies ; whilst a young man re- lates how he was led astray by Will o'the Wisp ...
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... story , which was formerly current in the country , was , that if a bowl of cream was laid in a barn for a cer- tain fairy , he would come by night and thresh a large quantity of corn ; and when he was tired , would lie down before the ...
... story , which was formerly current in the country , was , that if a bowl of cream was laid in a barn for a cer- tain fairy , he would come by night and thresh a large quantity of corn ; and when he was tired , would lie down before the ...
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... story of Orpheus and Euridice is too well known to require an explanation . The poet means to give the preference to modern music when he says , " Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto , to have quite set free His balf ...
... story of Orpheus and Euridice is too well known to require an explanation . The poet means to give the preference to modern music when he says , " Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto , to have quite set free His balf ...
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... story of the stege of Thebes , of the wretched race of Pelops , or the fall of Troy , or what modern tragedy ( the buskined stage ) has represented with dignity . " But O sad virgin ( Melancholy , to whom the poet again addresses ...
... story of the stege of Thebes , of the wretched race of Pelops , or the fall of Troy , or what modern tragedy ( the buskined stage ) has represented with dignity . " But O sad virgin ( Melancholy , to whom the poet again addresses ...
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Academus allusion ancient appear beautiful bell Ben Jonson bird blood bold Bridewell Hospital called Cambuscan Canace catachresis chariot cheerful chief justice churchyard clouds cock colours Cypress Danger darkness death drowsy epithets Euridice eyes fairies father favourite Fear figures fire fold formerly ghosts goblins goddess Gray groves Harvard College hath hear Heaven Henry honour JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL king's bench kynge L'Allegro lawn laws lines live melancholy metaphor metonymy Milton mind Mirth moon morning muses night nymph obscure Orpheus passions Pelops Penseroso person Plato pleasures Pluto poem poet poet means poetic poetry prince properly means prose represented robes says seems shade Shakspeare shroud sing sleep smiles solemn sometimes soul sound speak spirit stanza stream Styx supposed sweet sword thee thing and means thou art tide of blood tion trophies unseen verse walks whilst wild wind wood word young readers youth
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Página 77 - And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew ; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Página 50 - Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus
Página 71 - And, when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring, To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown, that Sylvan loves, Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude axe, with heaved stroke, Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt.
Página 66 - Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made hell grant what love did seek. Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold...
Página 46 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of link-ed sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running ; Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of Harmony : That Orpheus...
Página 39 - Sometimes, with secure delight, The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid Dancing in the chequered shade...
Página 34 - Through the high wood echoing shrill : Sometime walking not unseen By hedgerow elms, on hillocks green, Right against the eastern gate, Where the great Sun begins his state, Robed in flames, and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight...
Página 30 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Página 75 - With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced quire below, In service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes.
Página 55 - There, held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad leaden downward cast Thou fix them on the earth as fast: And join with thee calm Peace, and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet, And hears the Muses in a ring Aye round about Jove's altar sing...