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Pagina 152
... David Gray ( the Kirke White of Scotland he is called , I believe ) , and the merits of his poems ? -J . W. B. 552. Do you know of a good but cheap work on Grecian manners in the time of Alexander the Great , and also Saxon manners in ...
... David Gray ( the Kirke White of Scotland he is called , I believe ) , and the merits of his poems ? -J . W. B. 552. Do you know of a good but cheap work on Grecian manners in the time of Alexander the Great , and also Saxon manners in ...
Pagina 231
... David Gray appeared in the Cornhill last year , from the pen of Robert Buchanan , who , in his " Idyls and Legends of Inver- burn , " under the title of " Poet An- drew " gives a poetic version of the poet of Markland , for whom a monu ...
... David Gray appeared in the Cornhill last year , from the pen of Robert Buchanan , who , in his " Idyls and Legends of Inver- burn , " under the title of " Poet An- drew " gives a poetic version of the poet of Markland , for whom a monu ...
Pagina 232
infinite ocean of Nature , David Gray's far thinner and fainter , but yet sweeter , strains , the flowing away of the very essence of his own nature in streams of melody . But if David Gray took his inspiration from the most lyrical ...
infinite ocean of Nature , David Gray's far thinner and fainter , but yet sweeter , strains , the flowing away of the very essence of his own nature in streams of melody . But if David Gray took his inspiration from the most lyrical ...
Pagina 240
... David Gray are in the press . An attempt to ascertain the state of Chaucer's works as they were left at his death has been made by Henry Bradshaw , of the Cambridge Univer- sity Library , and the results have been embodied in a work ...
... David Gray are in the press . An attempt to ascertain the state of Chaucer's works as they were left at his death has been made by Henry Bradshaw , of the Cambridge Univer- sity Library , and the results have been embodied in a work ...
Pagina 310
... David Gray , as given by Sheriff H. G. Bell , in inaugu- rating his monument : - It was said by the ancient Greeks that " those whom the gods love die young . " The saying was a consolation to David Gray in his last hours , and he ...
... David Gray , as given by Sheriff H. G. Bell , in inaugu- rating his monument : - It was said by the ancient Greeks that " those whom the gods love die young . " The saying was a consolation to David Gray in his last hours , and he ...
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Pagina 47 - Are those her ribs through which the Sun Did peer, as through a grate? And is that Woman all her crew? Is that a DEATH? and are there two? Is DEATH that woman's mate?
Pagina 153 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object: can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt?
Pagina 232 - is a definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences.
Pagina 152 - ... only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose ; often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.
Pagina 230 - 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.
Pagina 152 - ... an objection. Sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation, of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look or gesture passeth for it.
Pagina 49 - Tis a month before the month of May, And the Spring comes slowly up this way. The lovely lady, Christabel, Whom her father loves so well, What makes her in the wood so late, A furlong from the castle gate ? She had dreams all yesternight Of her own betrothed knight ; And she in the midnight wood will pray For the weal of her lover that's far away.
Pagina 103 - Our clock strikes when there is a change from hour to hour; but no hammer in the Horologe of Time peals through the universe, when there is a change from Era to Era.
Pagina 400 - ... no dictionary of a living tongue ever can be perfect, since, while it is hastening to publication, some words are budding, and some falling away...
Pagina 152 - ... under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection ; sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense...