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admirers Alemanni Alexandre Dumas angler Athene Benfeius burn Byron called Catullus Chapelain clepen comedy concerning Herodotus Coqcigrues cries critic dawn DEAD AUTHORS dear Dickens didst thou Dombey and Son drink dwell Egypt England Englishmen evil fair fancy Farewell Father fortunate France Françoys Rabelais friends genius Gods grave happy hath heart heathen HERMES Homer honour Horace human humour immortal John Chalkhill knew ladies land laugh laughter laurel learned letters literary live Lond Lord Byron Lucian Maître Françoys matter Medes methinks Molière Muellerus Muscovy Muses never Panurge Pierre de Ronsard poems poet poetry Pope popular Porthos praise priest Prince prose Rabelais Ronsard Rose Sam Weller satire Shelley sing song Sophocles speak sweet taste tell thee Theocritus Théophile Gautier thine things thou didst thou wert thou wouldst Thresoure trout turn verse wandering wine write Ynde Zeus
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Page 202 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
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Page 17 - A direful death indeed they had, As wad put any parent mad ; But she was more than usual calm, She did not give a single dam.
Page 89 - ... attended with most dangers, that thereby they might be punished, and then applauded and pitied; when they called the spirit of opposition a tender conscience, and complained of persecution, because they wanted power to persecute others; when the giddy multitude raged, and became restless to find out misery for themselves and others; and the rabble would herd themselves together, and endeavour to govern and act in spite of authority...
Page 136 - What though the music of thy rustic flute Kept not for long its happy, country tone ; Lost it too soon, and learnt a stormy note Of men contention-tost, of men who groan, Which task'd thy pipe too sore, and tired thy throat — It fail'd, and thou wast mute ! Yet hadst thou alway visions of our light...
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Page 148 - ... not, perhaps, gifts which Mr. Hawthorne had at his command. He was a great writer — the greatest writer in prose fiction whom America has produced. But you and he have not much in common, except a certain mortuary turn of mind and a taste for gloomy allegories about the workings of conscience. " For your stories has been reserved a boundless popularity, and that highest success — the success of a perfectly sympathetic translation. By this time of course you have made the acquaintance of your...
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