The shade of Byron: a mock heroic poem1871 |
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... feels her feet changing into divided hoofs , as the redoubted " Edipus , " through his patron , the Echo * , has described the infant Byron , if she thinks it worth while to propagate the infamous lie . Or , lastly , Mrs. Beecher Stowe ...
... feels her feet changing into divided hoofs , as the redoubted " Edipus , " through his patron , the Echo * , has described the infant Byron , if she thinks it worth while to propagate the infamous lie . Or , lastly , Mrs. Beecher Stowe ...
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... feels her feet changing into divided hoofs , as the redoubted " Edipus , " through his patron , the Echo * , has described the infant Byron , if she thinks it worth while to propagate the infamous lie . Or , lastly , Mrs. Beecher Stowe ...
... feels her feet changing into divided hoofs , as the redoubted " Edipus , " through his patron , the Echo * , has described the infant Byron , if she thinks it worth while to propagate the infamous lie . Or , lastly , Mrs. Beecher Stowe ...
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... feel , in spite of dire calamity , A buoyant elasticity of soul , That , like a cork upon the yeasty wave , Still dancing to the roar , derides the storm , And laughingly disdains to be o'erwhelm'd.1 Now , Byron , spur thy winged hobby ...
... feel , in spite of dire calamity , A buoyant elasticity of soul , That , like a cork upon the yeasty wave , Still dancing to the roar , derides the storm , And laughingly disdains to be o'erwhelm'd.1 Now , Byron , spur thy winged hobby ...
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... feel sae happy ) ; It maks ' em , as it were , a ' daunce wi ' glee , In form mair gracefu ' wi ' a flow mair kind— In short , it gies " a summer to the mind . " Then let us mount , friend Byron , and be off , While yet the spirit moves ...
... feel sae happy ) ; It maks ' em , as it were , a ' daunce wi ' glee , In form mair gracefu ' wi ' a flow mair kind— In short , it gies " a summer to the mind . " Then let us mount , friend Byron , and be off , While yet the spirit moves ...
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... feel no pleasure In being always thus condemn'd to rhyming , 1 As if no sense existed without chiming The syllables together like - like crockery , ' Tis a great bore - of intellect a mockery . " I'd rather be a kitten and cry - mew ...
... feel no pleasure In being always thus condemn'd to rhyming , 1 As if no sense existed without chiming The syllables together like - like crockery , ' Tis a great bore - of intellect a mockery . " I'd rather be a kitten and cry - mew ...
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Page 274 - Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity, and place, and innocence, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all. Our Maker bids increase ; who bids abstain But our Destroyer, foe to God and Man?
Page 370 - 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 264 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent: Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Page 264 - That, changed through all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows...
Page 63 - To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me ? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts ; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
Page 20 - 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 297 - That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.
Page 156 - 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 64 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
Page 273 - 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...