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... College Sermons . W. A. Guerry . 212 246 Leopardi and Evolutional Pessimism . G. White . Longstreet and the War between the States . S. S. P. Patteson . Mahaffy ( Prof. ) on " International Jealousy . " An Observer .. Meek , Alexander ...
... College Sermons . W. A. Guerry . 212 246 Leopardi and Evolutional Pessimism . G. White . Longstreet and the War between the States . S. S. P. Patteson . Mahaffy ( Prof. ) on " International Jealousy . " An Observer .. Meek , Alexander ...
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... College . Here he was admitted as a scholar in 1733. The master of Winchester was Dr. Burton , one of the most ... College , Oxford , but unfortunately , as had happened to the poet Young some years before , none occurred . After all it ...
... College . Here he was admitted as a scholar in 1733. The master of Winchester was Dr. Burton , one of the most ... College , Oxford , but unfortunately , as had happened to the poet Young some years before , none occurred . After all it ...
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... college life . " Though Collins early blossomed into a poet , he pub- lished nothing of importance until his residence at Oxford . Here , in 1742 , he brought out his " Persian Eclogues " , written when he was only seventeen . The more ...
... college life . " Though Collins early blossomed into a poet , he pub- lished nothing of importance until his residence at Oxford . Here , in 1742 , he brought out his " Persian Eclogues " , written when he was only seventeen . The more ...
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... college train- ing . His career had not been chequered by want or pri- vation . It is true he had acquired a taste for pleasure and dissipation , but his friends had not cast him off . His sud- den departure from Oxford and subsequent ...
... college train- ing . His career had not been chequered by want or pri- vation . It is true he had acquired a taste for pleasure and dissipation , but his friends had not cast him off . His sud- den departure from Oxford and subsequent ...
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... college at the age of eighteen he plunged for three years into the dissipations of the gayest society of St. Petersburg - then of a sudden ban- ished himself into the wilds of Bessarabia . In his lines to Ovid he tells us that like the ...
... college at the age of eighteen he plunged for three years into the dissipations of the gayest society of St. Petersburg - then of a sudden ban- ished himself into the wilds of Bessarabia . In his lines to Ovid he tells us that like the ...
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Page 292 - Of her bright face one glance will trace A picture on the brain, And of her voice in echoing hearts A sound must long remain; But memory, such as mine of her, So very much endears, When death is nigh my latest sigh Will not be life's, but hers. I fill this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone, A woman, of her gentle sex The seeming paragon — Her health! and would on earth there stood Some more of such a frame, That life might be all poetry, And weariness a name.
Page 290 - A sister to the night !— Sleep not ! — thine image wakes for aye Within my watching breast: Sleep not! — from her soft sleep should fly, Who robs all hearts of rest. Nay, lady, from thy slumbers break, And make this darkness gay With looks, whose brightness well might make...
Page 46 - How sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!
Page 47 - Who slept in buds the day, And many a Nymph who wreathes her brows with sedge, And sheds the freshening dew, and, lovelier still, The pensive Pleasures sweet, Prepare thy shadowy car.
Page 35 - Car nous voulons la Nuance encor, Pas la couleur, rien que la nuance! Oh! la nuance seule fiance Le rêve au rêve et la flûte au cor!
Page 105 - O World ! O life ! O time ! On whose last steps I climb, Trembling at that where I had stood before, — When will return the glory of your prime ? No more — oh never more ! Out of the day and night A joy has taken flight ; Fresh Spring, and Summer, and Winter hoar, Move my faint heart with grief, — but with delight No more — oh never more!
Page 114 - And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.
Page 104 - We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Page 475 - Before I went into Germany, I came to Broadgate in Leicestershire, to take my leave of that noble Lady Jane Grey, to whom I was exceeding much beholding. Her parents, the Duke and Duchess, with all the household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park : I found her in her chamber, reading...
Page 188 - The importance of reading, not slight stuff to get through the time, but the best that has been written, forces itself upon me more and more every year I live ; it is living in good company, the best company, and people are generally quite keen enough, or too keen, about doing that, yet they will not do it in the simplest and most innocent manner by reading. However, if I live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.