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Page 170 - of Praise : These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair ; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To
Page 185 - A narrow inlet, still and deep, Affording scarce such breadth of brim As served the wild duck's brood to swim ; and would not dream that what you saw was part of a lake six miles long. But in the wooded rocks that enclose it here with a strict and jealous
Page 186 - shivering there triumphantly in the summer breeze. Here the road is darkened again with rocks, and when it emerges it is to skirt the " margin of Achray," of which in Scott's time it could well be said, Where wilt thou find in foreign land So lone a lake, so sweet a strand
Page 199 - In Memoriam " has a noble landscape in one stanza :— Calm and deep peace in yon great plain, That sweeps with all its autumn bowers, And crowded farms and lessening towers, To mingle with the bounding main. in
Page 199 - Locksley Hall, that in the distance overlooks the sandy tracts, And the hollow ocean ridges roaring into cataracts. And in the same poem sign of sympathy with a tropical sea in Summer isles of Eden lying in
Page 192 - Let the brow o'erwhelm it (the eye), As fearfully as doth the galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Page 44 - Our life, with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear, Is just our chance o
Page 181 - line—he does manage to bring before the mind some degree of likeness. In his very first mention of the place— But nearer was the copsewood gray That waved and wept on Loch Achray ; there is a sound—a sweet, sad, far-off melody—that to my mind at once
Page 194 - Sabsean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest :—with such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Pleased with the grateful scent, old Ocean smiles. Milton was a worshipper of the sea. To our thinking he could have done something really worthy of it : something which would have been to the sea what " Paradise Lost " was to the land, and which the mermen and mermaidens
Page 170 - the orient sun, now fly'st, With the fix'd stars, fix'd in their orb that flies, And ye five other wand'ring fires that move