The poetical works of Valentine Verity: ed. [or rather written] by S.W. Leonard1867 |
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... ne'er blame your faithless spouses , While ye neglect their comfort in your houses ! IX . We know that prudes and moralists will cavil At this last stanza , and exclaim , " Propriety Should keep the wife at home ; ' twould be but civil ...
... ne'er blame your faithless spouses , While ye neglect their comfort in your houses ! IX . We know that prudes and moralists will cavil At this last stanza , and exclaim , " Propriety Should keep the wife at home ; ' twould be but civil ...
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... ne'er might see more . XXVI . Whose eye was that , which , with distracted gaze Glar'd on the ghost that reach'd Don Juan's room ? Whose step was it that stealthily did pace The corridor , still keeping in the gloom ? A dusky form was ...
... ne'er might see more . XXVI . Whose eye was that , which , with distracted gaze Glar'd on the ghost that reach'd Don Juan's room ? Whose step was it that stealthily did pace The corridor , still keeping in the gloom ? A dusky form was ...
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... ne'er saw , ear heard of , Nor heart conceiv'd . " — ( Though we conceive the head To be the only part in which is bred Conception of ideas , grand or grov'ling . ) Not from our hearts can we our thoughts be shov❜ling : XLII . Except ...
... ne'er saw , ear heard of , Nor heart conceiv'd . " — ( Though we conceive the head To be the only part in which is bred Conception of ideas , grand or grov'ling . ) Not from our hearts can we our thoughts be shov❜ling : XLII . Except ...
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... ne'er have sinn'd but for those lessons , ample , Which they imbib'd from parents , or from priests , Who put sins in their heads , and then ( the beasts ) Thrash ' em for doing that which they were taught By deeds domestic , or at ...
... ne'er have sinn'd but for those lessons , ample , Which they imbib'd from parents , or from priests , Who put sins in their heads , and then ( the beasts ) Thrash ' em for doing that which they were taught By deeds domestic , or at ...
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... ne'er can claim equality !! LII . Ye " London , " " British , " " Edinborough Mags , " With " British Critic , " " Grandmother's Review , " How chapfallen are ye now ! —not one tongue wags . " The sleep that knows no waking " is for you ...
... ne'er can claim equality !! LII . Ye " London , " " British , " " Edinborough Mags , " With " British Critic , " " Grandmother's Review , " How chapfallen are ye now ! —not one tongue wags . " The sleep that knows no waking " is for you ...
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aught Aurora beauteous beautiful blest Boötes bright Byron call'd canto chap charm clime Crystal Palace dark dear deep divine Don Juan doth doubt dread dream Duchess e'en e'er earth eternal ev'ry eyes fair familiar spirit fancy fear feel female fierce fire glory gold Grace hand hath heart heav'n heav'nly holy Honoria human Jews Juan's kiss knew labour Lady leave light Lord Byron Lord Pyrrho magic maid Maria Monk mind mortal Muse mystery nature nature's ne'er night nought o'er Paradise Lost passion poor pow'r priests pure reader rich rings Rodomont round Sabbath seem'd shade shine Sir William Jones sooth soul spirit Spitzbergen stanza stars strange Sumbawa sweet swift teint tell thee thine things thou thought truth turn'd twas twere twill Vishnu wild wonderful youth
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Page 170 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Page 386 - Here's a sigh to those who love me, And a smile to those who hate ; And whatever sky's above me, Here's a heart for every fate. Though the ocean roar around me, Yet it still shall bear me on ; Though a desert should surround me, It hath springs that may be won.
Page 283 - John Keats, who was killed off by one critique, Just as he really promised something great, If not intelligible, without Greek Contrived to talk about the gods of late, Much as they might have been supposed to speak. Poor fellow ! His was an untoward fate ; 'Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuffed out by an article.
Page 34 - To him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 78 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
Page 288 - Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce. From beds of raging fire to starve in ice...
Page 35 - tis her privilege Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy...
Page 95 - Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished! Reply, reply. It is engendered in the eyes. With gazing fed ; and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies. Let us all ring fancy's knell : I'll begin it, — Ding, dong, bell.
Page 164 - And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp. 36 And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died : as the LORD commanded Moses.
Page 78 - Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.