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been where i the things have seen o things without compare such sights again cannot be found i in any place on english ground i be it at wake or fair at cross hard by the way where we thou know st do sell our hay i there is a house with stairs and there did i see coming down such folk as are not in our town forty at le...	45
why then thou have mine yet now i think on let it lie to find it were in vain for th hast a thief in either eye would steal it back again why should two hearts in one breast lie and yet not lodge together o love where is thy sympathy if thus our breasts thou but love is such a mystery i cannot find it out for when i th...	45
the first is to be found in to roses in the bosom of see p richard forty years spent in such gave little opportunity for that retirement from the world which and art require his hasty verses were thrown off at a heat and the genius in them is often rather a spark than a steady flame in the curious verses entitled the o...	45
and example but though was the of that literature of which travelled over europe his poem on the of the is continually surpassed by who always the english poets a fancy when is content for a moment to be plain here are one or two specimens from those collected by and he saw n blossom with a new bom light on which as o...	45
thy ancient which when i was foul and knew it not yet me english poets i took a time when thou sleep great waves of trouble my breast i thought it brave to praise thee then yet then i found that thou creep into my heart with joy giving more rest than flesh did lend thee back again let me but once the conquest have upon...	45
and weep and sing and sigh and work and sleep again still rolling a round sphere of still returning pain hands full of hasty labours pains that pay and prize themselves do much that more they may and work for work not wages let to morrow s new drops wash off the sweat of this day s sorrows a long and daily dying life w...	45
was printed in a the remainder of his works appeared in it seems probable that in the premature death of english literature a very heavy loss he died unexpectedly when he was only twenty nine leaving behind him a mass of writing at once very imperfect and very promising the patronage of ben it would seem rather than an...	45
fall the and all our pleasures must from their own for to my muse if not to me tm sure all game is free heaven earth all are but parts of her great thomas and when we mean to taste of blessings now and then and drink by a cup or two to noble s healthy i take my pipe and try the melody which he that hears lets through h...	45
was at hand with an exercise of flattery which in its central conceit was afterwards but hardly equalled by the youthful other events belonging to the sphere of the court prompted longer and strains returns from journeys across the border or abroad marriages and above all occasions sacred to the favourite deity and ind...	45
loud and draw them into shorter rooms this will be understood more wary not more good sins too may be severe and so no doubt the vice but only sour d not rooted out but new by th using of each part aright changing both step and sight that false direction come not from the eye nor the foot tread that neither thai the wa...	45
he wrote them at thirteen he says and our may fairly begin with them but in the main we shall be right in ourselves to the mature poems of the of with the additions that were made to it during his lifetime he meant it to be a edition of his poems he excluded much from it deliberately and he intended to add nothing to i...	45
only but woe to her stubborn heart if once mine come into the room tear and blow up all within like a shot into a magazine at another the story of his love cut in the bark has burnt and withered up the tree again if love is worship his mistress who has proved is like the of old who against light so the vain when the...	45
bold voice of thy generous disdain these mighty are yet too deep for all thy judgment and thy wit the two are brilliant examples of what could do when he left what he was expected to feel for what he really felt about the the of whose twelve books fortunately only four came to the birth perhaps the less said the better...	45
lie alas my treasure s gone why do i stay the english poets he was my friend the truest friend on earth a strong and mighty influence join d our birth nor did we envy the most sounding name by friendship n of old to fame none but his brethren he and sisters knew whom the kind youth d to me and ev n in that we did agree...	45
hour might reign had she not evil counsels ta en laws she broke and still new she chose till up in arms my passions rose and cast away her yoke mary then and gentle ann both to reign at once began alternately they sway d and sometimes mary was the fair and sometimes ann the crown did wear and sometimes both i obey d an...	45
drink drinks ten thousand rivers up so d that they the cup the busy sun and one would guess by its drunken fiery face no less drinks up the sea and when he s done the moon and stars drink up the sun they drink and dance by their own light they drink and all the night nothing in nature s sober found but an eternal healt...	45
that die itself in spite of possessed and d by a wild from the east his new planted in the west the empire see the on daniel ch but as in time each great imperial race and gives some new one place so did this noble empire waste sunk by degrees from glories past and in the school men s hands it perished quite at last th...	45
an idol only and a name hold noble and restrain the bold voice of thy generous disdain these mighty are yet too deep for all thy judgment and thy wit the time s set forth already which shall stiff reason when it offers to rebel which these great secrets shall and new reveal a few years more so soon thou not died would ...	45
glass unite dost the feeble heat and the strength till thou dost bright and noble fires whilst this hard truth i teach i see the monster london laugh at me i should at thee too foolish city if it were fit to laugh at misery but thy estate i pity let but thy wicked men from out thee go and all the fools that crowd thee ...	45
lady but the reader who studies the poems will doubt whether he was really very anxious to do so the is extremely elegant and ingenious but without passion and the ambition to be remembered through as through is a little too obvious but s love verses though are more manly than those of and if they do not take the heart...	45
rules of than any other poem in the language but is at all times a singularly writer of his other long poems by far the best is the on which was written but a very few months before his own death and after a long attack of insanity in this poem he is brighter and more easy than in any other long composition and it cont...	45
home for the next twenty years his thoughts were diverted from poetry by the absorbing interest of the civil struggle his time was occupied partly by official duties as latin secretary to the council of the partly by the voluntary share he took in the of the time the public cause to which he had devoted himself being l...	45
first order knew or rather felt that human action or passion is the only subject of poetry is no mere conventional rule established by the critics or nay custom it rests upon the truth that poetry must be a vehicle of emotion poetry is an address to the feelings and imagination not to the judgment and the understanding...	45
at cambridge on the occasion of the death of one of the fellows of christ s college edward king had been a contemporary and companion of milton at christ s and in had been elected to a fellowship in that college in obedience to a royal and as it should seem over milton s head king who is described to us as a young man ...	45
measure be at mine own peril and cost i refuse not to sustain this expectation from as many as are not loth to hazard so much upon the best that i can give them it is material to a right judgment on paradise lost to come to the study of it with this knowledge of its origin for it is one of the most artificial poems in ...	45
came to write found that the two parts of the drama of humanity must be separately treated he therefore contented himself with a prophetic reference to the recovery and the in an awkward book oi paradise lost from s suggestion too milton has taken no more than the title of his poem for though he calls it paradise regai...	45
night hath better sweets to prove now wakes and love come let us our rites begin tis only day light that makes sin which these shades will ne er report hail goddess of sport dark to whom the secret flame of midnight mysterious dame that ne er art call d but when the of darkness her gloom and makes one blot of all the a...	45
that praise that is addressed to ears not any boast of skill but extreme shift how to regain my d company compelled me to awake the courteous echo to give me answer from her couch what chance good lady hath you thus lady dim darkness and this leafy could that divide you from near guides lady they left me weary on a gra...	45
deed of so much fame in heaven expect thy o fountain and thou honoured flood smooth sliding crown d with that strain i heard was of a higher mood but now my oat proceeds and to the herald of the sea that came in s plea he ask d the waves and ask d the winds what hard hath doom d this gentle and questioned every gust of...	45
on the late in o lord thy s whose bones lie scattered on the mountains cold ev n them who kept thy truth so pure of old when all our fathers stocks and stones forget not in thy book record their groans who were thy sheep and in their ancient fold slain by the bloody that roll d mother with infant down the rocks their t...	45
and study of revenge hate and courage never to submit or yield and what is else not to be overcome that glory never shall his wrath or might from me to bow and sue for grace with knee and his power who from the terror of this arm so late doubted his empire that were low indeed that were an and shame beneath this since ...	45
d force hath made supreme above his equals farewell happy fields where joy for ever dwells hail horrors hail infernal world and thou hell receive thy new possessor one who brings a mind not to be changed by place or time the mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell a hell of heaven what matter wher...	45
their darkness his light first horrid king d with blood of human sacrifice and parents tears though for the noise of drums and loud their children s cries unheard that pass d through fire to his grim idol him the d in and her watery plain in and in to the stream of utmost nor content with such audacious neighbourhood t...	45
a spacious wound and d out ribs of gold let none admire that riches grow in hell that soil may best deserve the precious and here let those who boast in mortal things and wondering tell of and the works of kings learn how their greatest monuments of fame and strength and art are easily by spirits and in an hour what in...	45
the god of this new world at whose sight all the stars hide their diminished heads to thee i call but with no friendly voice and add thy name sun to tell thee how i hate thy beams that bring to my remembrance from what state fell how glorious once above thy sphere till pride and worse ambition threw me down in heaven a...	45
and slow but further way found none so thick as one continued the of shrubs and bushes had d all path of man or beast that passed that way one gate there only was and that look d east on the other side which when the arch saw due entrance he and in contempt at one slight bound high o d all bound of hill or highest wall...	45
his happiest life simplicity and innocence so pass d they naked on nor d the sight of god or angel for they thought no ill so hand in hand they pass d the loveliest pair that ever since in love s embraces met adam the man of men since bom his sons the fairest of her daughters eve under a of shade that on a green stood ...	45
desirous as before so now of what thou know st not who the punishment all on alas be r thine own first ill able to sustain his full wrath whose thou feel st as yet least part and my displeasure bear st so ill if prayers could alter high i to that place would speed before thee and be louder heard that on my head all mig...	45
dust our final rest and native home what better can we do than to the place where he judged us prostrate fall before him and there confess humbly our faults and pardon beg with tears watering the ground and with our sighs the air sent from hearts in sign of sorrow and humiliation meek undoubtedly he will and turn from ...	45
own hath nothing and to whom nothing belongs but condemnation and shame who for so many benefits received d to god and false and so of all true good himself d milton yet to himself would take that which to god alone of right belongs yet so much is in god such grace that who advance his glory not their own them he himse...	45
the bay and inaccessible the here of length within her wall several days journey built by old of that first golden the seat and seat of whose success in long still there the wonder of all tongues as ancient but by him who twice and all thy father david s house led captive and laid waste till set them free his city ther...	45
special home of the chivalry of which was the poet accordingly appears in his as the of english patriotism the hill and grove at and house are of the in the shades of and they bear no small resemblance to the of lord in marvel was recommended to as assistant latin secretary of the council of state by milton who describ...	45
are vigorous but they are chiefly interesting from having been written by one who l ad anxiously watched milton s genius at work s poems are cold probably he was his are in the false classical style and of little value and is about the best of them and about the best of that is near this a fountain s liquid bell within...	45
the close jewels more rich than shows he makes the our mouths to meet and throws the at our feet but apples plants of such a price no tree could ever bear them twice with chosen by his hand from he stores the land and makes the hollow seas that roar proclaim the on shore he cast of which we rather boast the gospel s pe...	45
fable and old song so the temple s posts in spite the world o to revenge his sight english poets yet as i read soon growing less severe i liked his project the success did fear through that wide field how he his way should find o er which lame faith leads understanding blind lest he d the things he would explain and wh...	45
true had little or nothing dramatic in it and the of and the lady and the squire have not the personal and ring in them that is to be discerned in those of and the de but they proceed on the same principle with these like these they nothing and set down everything in malice of these they are in some son the english poe...	45
and to make them dip themselves and sound for in dirty pond to like for salvation and fish to catch the muse of thou that with ale or inspire and and force them though it was in spite of nature and their stars to write who as we find in sullen and cross works of modem wits vol ii d d a the english poets with vanity opi...	45
from and i rhyme the is of verses with which like ships they steer their courses in the hurry of a tis hard to keep out of harm s way honour is like a widow won with brisk attempt and putting on with entering and urging not slow approaches like a virgin samuel butler great always own what s prosperous by the soldier do...	45
justify in the eyes of posterity the boundless reputation of lord the famous song was written in when the author at the age of twenty eight had volunteered under the duke of york in the first dutch war it was composed at sea the night before the critical engagement in which the dutch admiral was blown up and thirty shi...	45
garden ah that i now could sit as as when your infant beauty could no pleasure nor no pain when i the dawn used to admire and praised the coming day i little thought the growing fire must take my rest away your charms in harmless childhood lay like in the mine age from no face took more away than youth concealed in thi...	45
almost as near as thou art to a tomb while every soft and every tender strain is and ill natured grown with pain but at thy name my muse and a new spark in the dull ashes i hear thy verse thy song divine and am inspired by every charming line but oh what inspiration at the second hand can an immortal command unless lik...	45
known passage of his history may have in him more of human dignity and freedom than the of popular fury and the to mob prejudice was the of the plot frenzy and his are accordingly stained with much mire and with much blood to what the of excited popular feeling together with an love of strong language can carry a bold...	45
what slavery he oft must undergo who though in silken and dressed wears but a livery at best when dinner calls the must wait with holy words to the meat but hold it for a favour seldom known if he be the honour to sit down soon as the appear sir withdraw those are not for a spiritual observe your distance and be sure ...	45
of those who merely give back what they have received more or less changed in form or in manner he has been as a in politics as a in religion and in literature as the of a succession of schools the reasons for and against these charges cannot be examined here and there seems something specially in treating of in a tone...	45
the lay man is content to bow to authority where it deserves the name to leave obscure points aside and where he cannot agree with the church to his private judgment for the sake of peace for points obscure are of small use to learn but common quiet is the world s concern that a whose stood on so very weak a footing sh...	45
hand may not be without a certain but affectation alone can pretend to be insensible to the magnificent of its movement or to the harmonious charm of of s art as a only one example could find a place here the simple but singularly powerful version to many generations of the creator yet this kind of literary work was ...	45
new from the distant sun and country beauties by their lovers go blessing themselves and wondering at the show so when the new bom first is seen her subjects all their queen and while she makes her progress through the east from every grove her numerous train s each poet of the air her glory sings and round him the ple...	45
first they warm then and then they take now with long necks from side to side they feed at length grown strong their mother fire and a new colony of flames succeed to every nobler portion of the town the curling roll their restless tide in parties now they up and down as armies for prey divide one mighty with a sped th...	45
bore their cant and with a zealous cry pursued their old beloved where and priest the nation and justified their spoils by inspiration for who so fit for reign as s race if once dominion they could found in grace these led the pack though not of scent yet deepest mouthed against the government tiu is the of the city or...	45
renewed and nature s king through nature s viewed reversed they viewed him lessened to their eye nor in an infant could a god new to this tend hence they began and here they all will end what weight of ancient witness can prevail if private reason hold the public scale but gracious god how well dost thou provide for ju...	45
correct of his but spite of all his pride a secret shame his breast at shakespeare s sacred name awed when he hears his rage he in a just despair would quit the stage and to an age less polished more does with disdain the foremost honours yield as with the greater dead he dares not strive he would not match his verse w...	45
and all the large which the dumb sister swayed all bowed beneath her government received in triumph er she went her pencil drew whatever her soul designed and oft the happy draught surpassed the image in her mind the scenes of herds and flocks and fruitful plains and barren rocks of shallow that flowed so clear the bot...	45
high the dead shall live the living die and music shall the sky the english poets alexander s feast or the power of a song in honour of st day twas at the royal feast for won by philip s warlike son aloft in awful state the hero on his imperial throne his were placed around their brows with roses and with bound so shou...	45
prize or both divide the crown he raised a mortal to the skies she drew an angel lines printed under the engraved portrait of milton in edition of the paradise lost s three poets in three distant ages bom greece italy and england did adorn the first in of thought surpassed the next in majesty in both the last the force...	45
the plain red was his banner and displayed abroad the bloody colours of his patron god at that self moment enters the gate of and the rising sun waved by the wanton winds his banner flies all maiden white and shares the people s eyes from east to west look all the world around two troops so matched were never to be fou...	45
and there insects had engraved on the mortar patterns of no human style or meaning but curious and suggestive above the trees the case was different the pillar rose into the sky a bright and cheerful thing clean and flushed with the sunlight the spot was seldom visited by a except perhaps in the shooting season the of ...	45
something happening somewhere yes quite a catastrophe he murmured without moving round what a in the sun the lady paused as if to consider the weight of that event in the scale of life will it make any difference to us here she asked the young man by this time seemed to be awakened to the consciousness that somebody u...	45
of the room was laid for a meal this woman of eighty in a large cap under which she wore a little cap to keep the other clean retained faculties but little she was gazing into the flames with her hands upon her knees quietly re in her brain certain of the long chain of pathetic and humorous which had constituted the pa...	45
there in the morning there she is sitting up in bed for my lady don t care to get up and then she makes me bring this book and that book till the bed is heaped up with immense volumes that half bury her making her look as she upon her elbow like the of she j then she looks towards the tall glass then she looks out at t...	45
throat as rough as a and not knowing you were going to hit up that minute i hadn t and i don t think and had either had ye souls i hadn t got thorough ready that s true said quite right of you then to speak said mr don t mind explaining we are here for practice now clear your throats then and at it again there was a n...	45
perhaps slightly temperament for want of something to do cherish or suffer for mr seated himself his boots which had seemed elegant in the farm house appeared rather clumsy here and his coat that was a model of when he stood amid the choir now exhibited decidedly strained relations with his limbs three years had passed...	45
what i have told you is only the least part of what i sent for you to tell you mr walked back to her side what is the rest of it then he asked with grave surprise it is a true revelation as far as it goes but there is something more i have received this letter and i wanted to say something then say it now my dear lady...	45
he went on like his pet heavenly bodies when he paused for breath she said in tones very different from his own i ought now to tell you that though i am interested in the stars they were not what i came to see you about i first thought of the matter to mr but i altered my mind and decided on you she spoke in so low a v...	45
was there a more ardent endeavour to bring down the to human comprehension by figures of speech and apt he took her mind into leading strings compelling her to follow him into of which she had never in her life even realized the existence there is a size at which dignity begins he exclaimed further on there is a size a...	45
had constructed on the spot he began reading over his notes two on a tower and examining some journals that had reached him in the morning the sun blazed into the hollow roof space as into a tub and the sides kept out every breeze though the month was february below it was may in the of the column this state of the atm...	45
a tower daylight still impressed by her playful secrecy he carried on the same idea after dark by returning to the house and passing through the garden door on to the lawn front where he sat on the that the terrace now she frequently came out here for a melancholy after dinner and to night was such an occasion went for...	45
tended i am not going to buy you one she said gently he looked as if he would faint certainly not i do not wish it i x not have accepted it faltered the young man but i am going to buy one for myself i lack a and i shall choose i shall fix my on the column brightened up and i shall let you have the use of it whenever y...	45
the dense fir foliage which enveloped the lower part of the column and its it would be no to the general appearance finally a path was to be made across the surrounding by which she might easily approach the scene of her new study when he was gone she wrote to the firm of concerning the for whose reception all this was...	45
receive the instrument and pay the bill her being given for the latter performance viii lady then had the pleasure of beholding a laden with packing cases moving across the field towards the pillar and not many days later who had never come to the great house since the luncheon met her in a path which he knew to be on...	45
pause by speech was apparently futile she laid her hand upon his arm he started withdrew his eye from the and brought himself back to the earth by a almost painful effort do come out of it she with a softness in her voice which any man but would have felt to be exquisite i feel that i have been so foolish as to put i...	45
there was no harm in their meetings but as woman and man she feared them ten days passed without a sight of him ten and dreary days during which the whole landscape like a the park trees the gravel from the drive while the sky was a coloured of immovable cloud it seemed as if the whole science of had never been real an...	45
house how is he now he is better just at this moment and we are more hopeful but he changes so may i go up i know he would like to see me her presence having been made known to the sufferer she was conducted upstairs to s room the way thither was through the large chamber he had used as a study and for the manufacture...	45
her eyes to speak plainly it was growing a serious question whether if he were not hidden from her eyes she would not soon be plunging across the ragged boundary which the from the forbidden s two on a tower by the time that she had drawn near home the sun was going down the heavy many church now subdued by violet shad...	45
as usual after duly remarking on the state of the weather him on his sure though slow improvement and answering his inquiries about the he said you have heard i suppose of what has happened to lady no nothing serious yes it is serious the parson informed him of the death of sir and of the accidents which had all knowle...	45
footsteps were audible to me from the very bottom and i knew they were yours you look almost restored i am almost restored he replied respectfully pressing her hand a reason for living arose and i lived what reason she inquired with a rapid blush he pointed to the like object in the western sky oh you mean the well yo...	45
i am so anxious to get home she repeated i did not mean to stay here more than five minutes i fear i am much to blame for this accident he said i ought not to have here but don t grieve i will arrange for your escape somehow be good enough to follow me down they and whispering to lady to remain a few stairs behind he t...	45
this door and bring the key to my house xiv j he resistance which lady s judgment had to her rebellious affection ere she learnt that she was a widow now passed into a that rendered her almost as of mood as before but she was one of that cordial and spontaneous who had not the heart to spoil a passion and her affairs...	45
my loss if i had lived and died without seeing more in you than in but i shall never leave off doing so now when you talk i shall love your understanding when you are silent i shall love your face but how shall i know that you care to be so much to me her manner was disturbed as she recognized the impending self surren...	45
why must we forget it all he inquired it is only an an it is no to me o how can you talk so lightly of this lady and yet if i were to go away from here i might perhaps soon reduce it to an yes he resumed i will go away love dies and it is just as well to it in its birth it can only die once i ll go no no she said looki...	45
to the nature of their meeting it was a lover s pure and simple and boldly it as such he clasped her in his arms i cannot bear this any longer he exclaimed three months since i saw you alone only a glimpse of you in church or a bow from the distance in all that time what a fearful struggle this keeping apart has been y...	45
of bath or in a convenient of london till a sufficient time should have elapsed to satisfy that on a fine morning at the end of this time she should hie away to the same place and be met at the station by st armed with the marriage license whence they should at once proceed to the church fixed upon for the ceremony ret...	45
latter in the papers may do for but it won t do for me having resigned the appointment i have two on a tower returned here as a preliminary step to finding another vent for my energies in other words another cow for my i knew nothing whatever of your husband s death till two days ago so that any letter from you on the ...	45
bent upon marriage business which seemed to have been abandoned by all the rest of the world as folly but she thought of his hair ardent eyes and eloquent lips and was carried onward by the very reflection entering the s room lady managed at the last juncture to state her errand in tones so collected as to even herself...	45
it been his own to tell would probably have ine so i but sharing it with an who knew not two on a his grandmother s affection so well as he did himself there was no alternative to holding his tongue the more effectually to guard it he decided to sleep at the cabin during the two or three nights previous to his departur...	45
upon my soul have all young men from eighteen to twenty five kept under barrels seeing how often in the lack of some such process the woman sits down before as his destiny and too frequently his purpose till he the most promising course ever conceived but no more i now leave your fate in your own hands your well wishin...	45
day it can be to morrow he whispered i cannot say she answered something tells me no it was almost impossible that she could know anything of the force exercised on by his dead uncle that morning yet her manner so curiously well with knowledge that he was struck by it and remained silent you have a black tie she contin...	45
my brother louis he is no doubt going on by the train to my house don t let him recognize me we must wait till he is gone thereupon went out again and told the young man that the cut on her face was not serious but that she could not see him after which they parted st then heard him ask for a ticket for which confirmed...	45
a rack overhead with various articles including a kettle and a while the remaining three or four feet at the other end of the room was fitted out as a for s use during late observations in the tower overhead it is not much of a palace to offer you he remarked smiling but at any rate it is a refuge the cheerful disperse...	45
shall be gone you leave me to morrow yes to morrow morning the truth was that with the progress of the hours and days the conviction had been borne in upon more and more forcibly that not for and could she afford to risk the discovery of her presence here by any living soul but let me see your face dearest he said i do...	45
in the south east comer the two on a tower great apartments through which they now walked wore already that aspect that comes from and already formed little for the dust in comers of the and a close smell of wood and leather with mouse pervaded the atmosphere so seldom was the solitude of these chambers on by human fee...	45

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