English poetry, for use in the schools of the Collegiate institution, Liverpool [ed. by W. J. Conybeare].1857 |
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Page 108
... his deadly paw treads the gay lilies down ! So stalked he when he turned to flight , on that famed Picard field . Bohemia's plume , and Genoa's bow , and Cæsar's eagle shield : So glared he when , at Agincourt , in wrath 108.
... his deadly paw treads the gay lilies down ! So stalked he when he turned to flight , on that famed Picard field . Bohemia's plume , and Genoa's bow , and Cæsar's eagle shield : So glared he when , at Agincourt , in wrath 108.
Page 119
... Edward the fifth , Richard Duke of York , & c . , believed to be murdered secretly in the Tower of London . The oldest part of that structure is vulgarly attributed to Julius Cæsar . Revere his consort's " faith , his father's " fame 119.
... Edward the fifth , Richard Duke of York , & c . , believed to be murdered secretly in the Tower of London . The oldest part of that structure is vulgarly attributed to Julius Cæsar . Revere his consort's " faith , his father's " fame 119.
Page 152
... CÆSAR . ACT III . , SCENE 6 . Rome - the Forum - a throng of citizens - Antony and others with Caesar's body . 2 Pleb . Peace ! let us hear what Antony can say . Ant . You , gentle Romans- - All . Peace , oh ! let us hear him . Ant ...
... CÆSAR . ACT III . , SCENE 6 . Rome - the Forum - a throng of citizens - Antony and others with Caesar's body . 2 Pleb . Peace ! let us hear what Antony can say . Ant . You , gentle Romans- - All . Peace , oh ! let us hear him . Ant ...
Page 153
... Cæsar , not to praise him . The evil that men do , lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones : So let it be with Cæsar ! The noble Brutus Hath told you , Cæsar was ambitious : If it were so , it was a grievous fault ...
... Cæsar , not to praise him . The evil that men do , lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones : So let it be with Cæsar ! The noble Brutus Hath told you , Cæsar was ambitious : If it were so , it was a grievous fault ...
Page 154
... Cæsar has had great wrong . 3 Pleb . Has he , masters ? I fear , there will a worse come in his place . 4 Pleb . Marked ye his words ? He would not take the crown : Therefore , ' tis certain he was not ambitious . 1 Pleb . If it be ...
... Cæsar has had great wrong . 3 Pleb . Has he , masters ? I fear , there will a worse come in his place . 4 Pleb . Marked ye his words ? He would not take the crown : Therefore , ' tis certain he was not ambitious . 1 Pleb . If it be ...
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Page 273 - Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills, and they To heaven. Their martyred blood and ashes sow O'er all the...
Page 150 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man; To-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost; And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Page 220 - Though in the paths of death I tread, With gloomy horrors overspread, My steadfast heart shall fear no ill, For thou, O Lord ! art with me still; Thy friendly crook shall give me aid, And guide me through the dreadful shade.
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Page 47 - YE Mariners of England That guard our native seas, Whose flag has braved, a thousand years, The battle and the breeze — Your glorious standard launch again To match another foe ! And sweep through the deep, While the stormy winds do blow, — While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
Page 113 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath, and near his favourite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; 'The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay. Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 273 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning, chide, "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?
Page 205 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men; A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell; But hush!
Page 72 - O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou...
Page 48 - Her home is on the deep. With thunders from her native oak, She quells the floods below, As they roar on the shore, When the stormy tempests blow ; When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy tempests blow.