The shade of Byron: a mock heroic poem1871 |
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... looks like mingled satire , and ill accords with the lady's cruelly treacherous treatment of her destitute neice , Medora Leigh , whose sufferings began through the atrocious villainy of her elder sister's profligate husband . * Pope's ...
... looks like mingled satire , and ill accords with the lady's cruelly treacherous treatment of her destitute neice , Medora Leigh , whose sufferings began through the atrocious villainy of her elder sister's profligate husband . * Pope's ...
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... look at ; so , for fear Thy very dust should dazzle them , they said , " In our pagodas let it not be laid ; Lest through some crevice , on a windy day , It should escape and blind us ! -why , it may , And then " -what then ? - " why ...
... look at ; so , for fear Thy very dust should dazzle them , they said , " In our pagodas let it not be laid ; Lest through some crevice , on a windy day , It should escape and blind us ! -why , it may , And then " -what then ? - " why ...
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... look at ; so , for fear Thy very dust should dazzle them , they said , " In our pagodas let it not be laid ; Lest through some crevice , on a windy day , It should escape and blind us ! -why , it may , And then " -what then ? - " why ...
... look at ; so , for fear Thy very dust should dazzle them , they said , " In our pagodas let it not be laid ; Lest through some crevice , on a windy day , It should escape and blind us ! -why , it may , And then " -what then ? - " why ...
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... look - out for recruits , whispering to a friend , said , " Well , if there are any gees , it is more than you can say for the h's . " The joke was quickly passed on to the celebrated Mrs. Jordan , who was in the next box , and who laid ...
... look - out for recruits , whispering to a friend , said , " Well , if there are any gees , it is more than you can say for the h's . " The joke was quickly passed on to the celebrated Mrs. Jordan , who was in the next box , and who laid ...
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... look pale , For fear those lated loves betray the tale . XXIII . Here leave we the fond pair to take their fill Of passion's sweet intoxicating draught , While ev'ry wearied head beside was still , No waking eye , save theirs , or look ...
... look pale , For fear those lated loves betray the tale . XXIII . Here leave we the fond pair to take their fill Of passion's sweet intoxicating draught , While ev'ry wearied head beside was still , No waking eye , save theirs , or look ...
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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...