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upon the trees outside told that the light had its origin in a flickering fire only the visitor after the third knocking stepped a little to the left in order to gain a view of the interior and threw back the hood from her face the dancing yellow revealed the fair and anxious countenance of inside the house this was en...	45
woman from herself under s whether for good or for ill she had well learnt a lady s part and the fascinating finish of her in this second campaign did probably arise from her encouragement of knight with all the rapidity of jealous upon some words she had let fall about an which he had only partially understood at the ...	45
time ago that she had sat there with as her lover and agreed to be his wife the significant of that time to the present was another item to add to the list of passionate fears which were with her now yet knight was very tender this evening and sustained her close to him as they sat not a word had been uttered by either...	45
the dull expanse of sea there gradually itself into existence the gleam of a distant light ship when that lover first kissed you was it in such a place as this yes it was you don t tell me anything but what i out of you why is that why have you suppressed all mention of this when casual confidences of mine should have ...	45
the last few minutes that he could not rest another night without further talk with upon the subject which now divided them he was determined to know all and relieve his in some way would gladly have escaped further converse alone with him that night but it seemed inevitable just after they left the house how little an...	45
reply why said knight circumstances by degrees you surely said you were in some degree engaged to him and of course you were if he kissed you and now you say you never encouraged him and i have been you said i am almost sure you did that you were sitting with him on that tomb good god he cried suddenly starting up i...	45
his reverie was broken by the sound of wheels and a horse s tramp the door opened to admit the surgeon lord and a mr for the division who had been attending at castle that very day and was having an after dinner chat with the doctor when lord arrived next came two female nurses and some mr after a examination pronounce...	45
previous night still sat heavy upon her i saw you from my window harry she said timidly the dew will make your feet wet he observed as one deaf don t mind it there is danger in getting wet feet yes harry what is the matter oh nothing shall i resume the serious conversation i had with you last night no perhaps not perha...	45
write to him as your husband and did he address you as his wife listen listen it was do answer me only answer me then yes we did her lips shook but it was with some little dignity that she continued i would gladly have told you for i knew and know i had done wrong but i dared not i loved you too well oh so well you hav...	45
d ye do s do you mean ay with their how d ye do s and shaking of hands asking me in and tender inquiries for you john these words formed part of a conversation between john smith and his wife on a saturday evening in the spring which followed knight s departure from england had long since returned to india and the coup...	45
mrs smith was getting in spite of herself by these remarkably friendly phenomena among the people of st s and in justice to them it was quite desirable that she should do so the interest which the ones of this town expressed so was genuine of its kind and equal in worth to the more polished smiles of larger by this tim...	45
turning the leaves over carelessly with his finger a pair op blue eyes when some time later was out of the room knight proceeded to pass the interval by looking at the sketches more carefully the first crude ideas to dwellings of all kinds were roughly on the different pages had been copied fragments of indian columns ...	45
he did not like to advance the statement now or even to think the thought to fancy otherwise accorded better with the hope to which knight s had given birth that love for his friend was not the direct cause but a result of her of love for himself such a matter must not be allowed to breed discord between us knight retu...	45
awakened by several little acts neither would allow himself to see that his friend might now be speaking as well as he resumed knight now that matters are a pair of blue eyes smooth between us i think i must leave you you won t mind my hurrying off to my quarters you ll stay to some sort of supper surely why didn t yo...	45
earth whereon a soft thought of him might perhaps be nourished still on a sudden he admitted to his mind the possibility that the engagement he was waiting in town to keep might be postponed without much harm it was no sooner perceived than attempted looking at his watch he found it wanted forty minutes to the departur...	45
in size but a good deal in said the other a man of brighter mind and manners smith then perceived that to their train was attached that same carriage of grand and dark aspect which had haunted them all the way from london you are going on i suppose said knight turning to after idly looking at the same object yes we may...	45
well how real how real he exclaimed brushing his hand across his eyes what is said knight that dream i fell asleep for a few minutes and have had a dream the most vivid i ever remember he wearily looked out into the gloom they were now drawing near to the lighting of the lamps was perceptible through the veil of even...	45
she was my darling before she was yours and after too if anybody has a right to call her his own it is i you talk like a man in the dark which is what a t air of blue eyes you are did she ever do anything for you risk her name for instance for you c yes she did said emphatically c not entirely did she ever live for you...	45
don t know half the reasons that made her do as she did how can we say even now that she was not pure and true in heart knight s voice had now become mild and gentle as a child s he went on can we call her ambitious no circumstance has as usual overpowered her purposes fragile and delicate as she liable to be in a mo...	45
er pope mark extract from the essay on criticism the of the lock ii ft ii iii extract from the book viii to the memory of an unfortunate lady from the on man book i book iv moral essays to dr from the first of the second book of to x extract from the to the from the book iv conclusion of the w extract from the to...	45
with some and dignity s is pure though not vigorous his treatment of the heroic in its and careful selection of epithet marks the period of transition between the large and flowing style of and the compressed energy of pope w j joseph the blessings of liberty from the letter from italy oh liberty thou goddess bright of...	45
since so few can live from passion free happy the man and only happy he who with such lucky stars begins his love that his cool judgment does his choice approve ill passions quickly wear away what s built upon esteem can ne er decay what has this death that s worth our care after a life of pain and sorrow past after ho...	45
in some respects it may be said that no advance in this peculiar model was ever made on the its best lines are equal to any of pope s in mere fashion and in it appear clearly enough the inherent defects of the form when once s energy divine and his cunning of what looked like had been lost or rejected the monotony the ...	45
understand how he could ever have this work yet he not only wrote it but he hoped to live by vol iii c the english poets it and grew when pope declined to praise it as a indeed poor solomon in rhyme was much too grave to be sublime exclaimed its disappointed author in his last published piece of i conversation another ...	45
different ages move tis so ordained would fate but mend it that i shall be past making love when she begins to comprehend it the english poets a in vain you tell your parting lover you wish fair winds may him oven alas what winds can happy prove that bear me far from what i love alas what dangers on the main can equal ...	45
lady of was bom about i o at the residence of her father sir william she married fourth earl of who survived her ax years she died on the th of august leaving no issue her works consist of the a the and a tragedy in that invaluable essay which to his in he says that excepting the reverie of lady and a passage or two in...	45
with green the waving moon and trembling leaves are seen when grass now bears itself upright and makes cool banks to pleasing rest invite whence spring the and the rose and where the sleepy sheltered grows whilst now a paler hue the takes yet still with red the dusky where scattered but in twilight fine trivial beaut...	45
his cousin swift of the classic efforts of the latter and published in probably written about ten years earlier may be taken as a type no selection from his verses would be esteemed satisfactory that did not exhibit a of this once celebrated production but apart from the tragic interest of the personal warning it it is...	45
second sight they shall not see a trail of light nor shall the upwards rise nor a new star adorn the skies for who can hope to place one there as glorious as s hair yet if his name you d and must him to the skies without a star this may be done so d his if s happy reign you praise pray not a word of days nor let my sho...	45
the english poets apply the tale and you shall find how just it suits with human kind some faults we own but can you guess why virtue s carried to excess wherewith our vanity us though neither foe nor friend allows us the lawyer you may rely on t he never squeezed a and this he makes his constant rule for which his br...	45
the city of london his father was a linen who having a modest retired to the country to live upon it pope s youth was spent at in the skirts of forest pope was brought up a catholic his father though the son of a clergyman of the established church having become a convert to during a residence on the continent on the d...	45
for what he meant pope at once took the lead in the race of writers because he took more pains than they he day and night to form himself for his purpose that of becoming a writer of finished verse to improve his mind to his view of the world to store up knowledge these were things unknown to him any ideas any thought...	45
lines does like all the greatest poets pope is individual and local he can paint with his full power only what he sees when he attempts abstract truth general past history his want of knowledge makes itself felt in feeble and distorted views the first production of pope to appear in print was his published when the aut...	45
is constructed on the principle of being immediately intelligible the moment it is not so its is gone alexander pope the of the lock is a mock heroic poem the style of which was suggested to pope by s pope followed his model in his work an poem the epithet employed by in the edition of his it was founded upon an incide...	45
times during these ten years the most celebrated of these poems are the four addressed to lord and known by the title of the essay on man it is a or poem not on man as the title bears but a e or f the english poets of the ways of providence the view attempted to be presented is that of the end of the universe is the ge...	45
abound much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found false eloquence like the glass its gaudy colours on ev ry place the face of nature we no more survey all alike without distinction gay but true expression like th sun and whatever it shines upon it all objects but it none expression is the dress of thought and still ap...	45
behind in equal curls and well to deck with shining the smooth iv ry neck love in these his slave and mighty hearts are held in slender chains with hairy we the birds betray slight lines of hair surprise the prey fair man s imperial race and beauty draws us with a single hair th advent baron the bright locks d he saw h...	45
wreaths of triumph now my temples the victor cried the glorious prize is mine i while fish in streams or birds delight in air or in a coach and six the british fair as long as shall be read or the small pillow grace a lady s bed vou o the english poets while visits shall be paid on solemn days when wax lights in bright...	45
or who could suffer being here below the lamb thy riot to to day had he thy reason would he and play d to the last he crops the flow ry food and the hand just raised to shed his blood oh blindness to the future kindly n that each may fill the circle marked by o who sees with equal eye as god of all a hero perish or a f...	45
fills the flood to that which through the wood the spider s touch how exquisitely fine feels at each thread and lives along the line in the nice bee what sense so true from poisonous the healing dew how instinct in the swine d half elephant with thine i that and reason what a nice barrier for ever separate yet for ever...	45
say or he whose virtue sigh d to lose a day but sometimes virtue while vice is fed what then is the reward of virtue bread that vice may merit tis the price of toil the deserves it when he the soil the deserves it when he the main where folly fights for kings or for gain the good man may be weak be indolent nor is his ...	45
high desert his hand d his heart his comprehensive head all interests weigh d all europe yet britain not betray d he thanks you not his pride is in fame and judgment at a bet what made say or more sage a warrior a a d prince a leaden saint a tremble at a star the throne a keep a genius quit through piety and d through ...	45
head nor know if be alive or dead why am i ask d what next shall see the light heavens was i born for nothing but to write has life no joys for me or to be grave have i no friend to serve no soul to save i found him close with swift indeed no doubt cries something will come out tis all in vain deny it as i will no suc...	45
sickness past unknown his death was instant and without a groan o grant me thus to live and thus to die who sprung from kings shall know less joy than i o friend may each domestic bliss be thine be no melancholy mine me let the tender office long engage to rock the cradle of age with arts extend a mother s breath make ...	45
an age i lose my patience and i own it too when works are not as bad but new while if our elders break all reason s laws these fools demand not pardon but applause on s bank where flowers eternal blow if i but ask if any weed can grow one tragic sentence if i dare which s grave action dignified or well mouth d with emp...	45
every soul with growing years the pleasing grew and alternate innocently flew but times corrupt and nature ill d produced the point that left a sting behind till friend with friend and families at strife triumphant malice d through private life who felt the wrong or fear d it took th alarm to law and justice lent her a...	45
their strange old virtue as they will if any ask you who s the man so near his prince that writes in verse and has his ear why answer and i ll engage the worthy youth shall ne er be in a rage but were his verses vile his whisper base you d quickly find him in lord s case hurt not honest but well may put some in a fury ...	45
english poets lost was the nation s sense nor could be found while the long solemn went round wide and more wide it spread o er all the realm ev n nodded at the the mild o er each committee crept d in each office slept and armies d out the campaign and d for orders on the main o muse relate for you can tell alone wits ...	45
the sun that walks his airy way to light the world and give the day the english poets the moon that shines with borrow d light the stars that the gloomy night the seas that roll d waves the wood that its shady leaves the field whose ears conceal the grain the yellow treasure of the plain all of these and all i see shou...	45
that cup the generous landlord own d before and paid with the precious bowl the kindness of this soul but now the clouds in airy tumult the sun emerging an sky a green the smelling leaves display and glittering as they tremble cheer the day the weather courts them from their poor retreat and the glad master the weary g...	45
in peace resign and sin no more on sounding here the youth withdrew the sage stood wondering as the flew thus look d when to mount on high his master took the chariot of the sky the fiery pomp ascending left the view the prophet d and wish d to follow too the bending here a prayer begun i as in heaven on earth thy will...	45
well known to need description and too great a favourite to be omitted from any and and the are other examples of that singing faculty which gay possessed in so marked a degree and which contributed so triumphantly to the success of the beggar s opera l the english poets from the shepherd s week ah thou leave thy sweet...	45
tell how michael and the fell or mixed with to glow in hymns of love not ill below or dost thou warn poor mortals left behind a task well suited to thy gentle mind oh if sometimes thy form descend to me thy aid thou guardian genius lend when rage me or when fear when pain or when pleasure charms in silent purer thought...	45
appealed with success to a wider public the o mill and bell and mary gray are examples of the light in which the genial mirth loving poet was at his ease when he tried serious he soon got beyond his depth farewell to is the only serious of his that has kept its hold and even that is not without traces of of sentiment s...	45
to call the of the tempest growling fell yet the least entrance found they none at all whence sweeter grew our sleep secure in hall and hither sent his kindest dreams raising a world of and grace o er which were shadowy cast that played in waving lights from place to place and shed a smile on nature s face not s pencil...	45
you less by long acquaintance study then your sky form to its manners your frame and learn to suffer what you cannot against the of a damp cold n to their bodies some frequent the and where i praise their heart a frame so not the cough nor those that breathe the or fell the nerves so tempered never quit their tone no h...	45
imagined or one less likely to into a poet it was in fact not until fast living had begun to break down his constitution that he took to literature as a consolation one of his earliest exercises was an addressed to who had bought a property in and so had become s neighbour this poem is neatly and and contains the well ...	45
calmly lay them in how low they stoop and seem to plough the ground i then all at once with greedy nostrils snuff the steam that their fluttering hearts as winds let loose from the dark of the god they burst away and sweep the lawn william hope gives them wings while she s on by fear the rings men dogs hills rocks and ...	45
superb muscle of the eye a s april weather face a mayor behind his the english poets and in military are sovereign for the case in view in rainy days keep double guard or will surely be too hard which like those fish by sailors met fly highest while their wings are wet in such dull weather so unfit to enterprise a...	45
untouched to may i with look by and wearing virtue s livery smile prone the distressed to relieve and little forgive with income not in fortune s and skill to make a busy hour with to town life to amuse to purchase books and hear the news to see old friends brush off the vn and taste at coming down by sickness rage and...	45
and brown leaning on his in the little garden or a in the willow shade who with the angle in his hand the to land the poetry of ruins was not reserved for the romantic second half of the century it is who describes the plain of spread like n f boundless round where solitary grey with moss ruin of ages and johnson could...	45
respecting the chances of which professional judgment has been hopelessly out it acquired popularity almost as soon as it was published and retained it for at least a century indeed its date is not yet gone by in certain circles long after its author s death it obtained an additional and probably a lasting hold on a ne...	45
hardships his short arm and quick as thought escapes where vex not and the weary rest robert the nor shall it hope in vain the time draws on when not a single spot of burial earth whether on land or in the spacious sea but must give back its long committed trust and faithfully shall these make up the full account not t...	45
once was as a poet of moral ideas however young will always deserve attention the english poets of the excellence of his the famous passage on j which as it is is so decidedly his that it cannot he left out in any selection from his works is in its way not to be surpassed and its excellence fully accounts for the popul...	45
own amusement and his friends and published but a little of the much that he produced a the english poets it is evident that he had read prior though not to the best advantage it is evident too that he had read not only pope but the poets as well and the poem of careless content here given is so good an imitation that ...	45
write but without wrath for should i bum or break my brains pray who will pay me for my pains i love my neighbour as myself like him too by his leave nor to his pleasure power or came i to as i conceive dame nature doubtless has designed a man the monarch of his mind now taste and try this temper mood it and brood it i...	45
died on the th of johnson may be said to occupy the central place in that highly characteristic school of poetry which was originated by pope and completed by the essence of pope s is personal satire it is true that he specially himself on being the champion of virtue and the great of moral truth but the virtue which h...	45
their country s dear bought rights away and plead for in the face of day with taint our poisoned youth and lend a lie the confidence of truth ah what it that from slavery far i drew the breath of life in english air was early taught a s right to prize and the tale of henry s if the conqueror receives the chain and...	45
that here by fortune d must watch the wild of taste with ev of caprice must play and chase the new blown of the day ah let not censure term our fate our choice the stage but echoes back the public voice the drama s laws the drama s give for we that live to please must please to live then prompt no more the follies you ...	45
let me take of thee spring thou up within my heart rise to all eternity the english poets christ our example lamb of god i look to thee thou shalt my example be thou art gentle meek and mild thou once a little child f n i would be as thou art give me thy obedient heart t thou art pitiful and kind let me have thy loving...	45
against myself to thee a worm of earth i cry an half awakened child of man an heir of endless bliss or pain a sinner bom to die lo on a narrow neck of land two unbounded seas i stand secure insensible a point of life a moment s space me to that heavenly place or me up in hell o god mine inmost soul convert and deeply o...	45
she now her shrieks command and hardly she through awful fear to forth and with hand to stay harsh justice in its mid career on thee she calls on thee her parent dear ah too remote to ward the shameful blow she sees no kind domestic near and soon a flood of tears begins to flow and gives a loose at last to woe but ah w...	45
the on the popular of the soon afterwards he was attacked by the brain disease from which with certain intervals of partial recovery he suffered for the rest of his life his last years were spent at under the care of his sister mrs he died in it should be that the variations in the different of poems are very numerous ...	45
of strength and grace with many a rude repeated stroke and many a barbarous yell to thousand fragments broke yet even where er the least appeared the admiring world thy hand still midst the scattered states around some of her strength were found the english poets they saw by what escaped the storm how wondrous rose her...	45
be mine the hut that from the mountain s side views and swelling floods and brown and dim discovered and hears their simple bell and marks o er all thy fingers draw the gradual dusky veil william while spring shall pour his showers as oft he wont and thy breathing eve while summer loves to sport beneath thy lingering l...	45
which love and pity shed that mourn beneath the gliding sail yet lives there one whose heedless eye shall scorn thy pale shrine glimmering near with him sweet bard may fancy die and joy desert the blooming year but thou stream whose sullen tide no crowned sisters now attend now me from the green hill s side whose cold ...	45
her shuddering cheek and with his blue face before her stand aad shivering cold these piteous accents speak pursue dear wife thy daily toils pursue at dawn or dusk industrious as before nor e er of me one helpless thought renew while i lie on the shore drown d by the s wrath nor e er shall aid thee more v ix unbounded ...	45
than two years gray saw and noted much on this journey were produced the best of his latin poems however the son of the prime minister and rich gave himself airs a difference arose which made gray separate from him and return alone to england he was reconciled with a year or two later but meanwhile his father died in h...	45
no other way of learning things his simple curiosity his religious were much like those of the old when you have as to get to the end of him there is waits to take you up and will set you down at philip de but previous to all these you should have read and those judgments with their true and clear ring the high quality...	45
that when his young friend was going abroad in just before gray s death he said to him i have one thing to beg of you which you must not refuse answered you know you have only to command what is it do not go to see said gray and then added no one knows the mischief that man will do promised compliance with gray s but w...	45
he was richly stored with knowledge though he was yet produced so little found no full and sufficient utterance never as the master of hall said spoke cut he knew well enough himself how it was with him my is at best you know he writes to of so delicate a constitution and has such weak nerves as not to stir out of its ...	45
never spoke out the english poets gray s poetry was not only in quantity by reason of the age wherein he lived it suffered somewhat in quality also we have seen under what obligation to gray professed himself to be if there was any excellence in his numbers he had learned it wholly from that great poet it was not for n...	45
j eager to taste the spring and float amid the liquid noon some lightly o er the current some their gilded trim quick glancing to the sun i the english poets to contemplation s sober eye such is the race of man and they that creep and they that fly shall end where they began alike the busy and the gay but flutter life ...	45
eyes her ample page rich with the spoils of time did ne er chill repressed their noble rage and the genial current of the soul full many a of purest ray serene the dark of ocean bear full many a flower is bom to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air thomas gray some village that with breast the little ...	45
philosophic teacher or as he would perhaps have liked to be called bard and sage in the preceding age poetry and philosophy had stood apart aimed at pleasure at truth but now under happy freedom poetry might dare to over all the great affairs of the world and of human life it might approach philosophy and embrace it an...	45
mortal and immortal powers as on a boundless theatre to run the great career of justice to his generous aim to all deeds to chase each partial purpose from his breast and through the mists of passion and of sense and through the tossing tide of chance and pain to hold his course while the voice of truth and virtue up t...	45
free song old shall listen to my tale and echo down the the liquid melody for a to me whom in their lays the call daughter of the neighbouring stream this cave belongs the fig tree and the vine which o er the rocky entrance downward shoot were placed by he with pale and purple the green before my threshold and my walls...	45
and bear the rest smart serene to sow the seeds of peace remembering when he watched the how sweetly to further knowledge silence vice and plant perpetual paradise when god had the world strong in the lord who could defy satan and all his powers that lie in night and hell and horror and despair were as the lion and ...	45
could yet sustain this mortal blow but alas beneath superior woe for now strong nature s sympathetic chain at his yearning heart with powerful strain his faithful wife for ever doomed to mourn for him alas who never shall return to black s approach exposed with want and hardships enclosed his lovely daughter left witho...	45
that gift should he apply his humour to base uses and follow in the steps of affected no airs of dignity in what he wrote and did not fear that word of reproach in his day low but his gentle heart his kindly wisdom made it impossible for him to follow he did not the reputation of a literary bully his was no loud voice ...	45
perhaps not necessary once more to discuss perhaps bordered on shakespeare s forest of and the doctrines concerning agricultural and commercial prosperity were suited to that neighbourhood it would be pleasant to hear and discuss them taking opposite sides certainly is english but certainly too the english poets kept s...	45
lifts its head on high where once the sign post caught the passing eye low lies that house where nut brown draughts inspired where grey beard mirth and smiling toil retired where village talked with looks profound and news much older than their ale went round imagination fondly to trace the parlour of that place the wh...	45
has often been said that his history of english poetry with s turned the course of our letters into a fresh channel but what is more noticeable here is that his own or much of it for he is not always free from the taint of instinctively with materials like those on which the older writers had drawn in reaction against...	45
begun while pensive memory traces back the round which fills the varied interval between much pleasure more of sorrow marks the scene sweet native stream those skies and so pure no more return to cheer my evening road yet still one joy remains that not obscure nor useless all my vacant days have flowed from youth s gay...	45
boast no merit but mere of rhyme short of sense and satire out of time who cannot follow where trim fancy leads by streams o er flower who often but without success have prayed for apt s artful aid who would but cannot with a master s skill coin fine new which mean no ill me thus uncouth thus every way unfit for pacin...	45
poems are merely so many variations on the and the on the passions his of paris and his lines on are perhaps those of his works in which he was least indebted to others and they are almost worthless besides being at least the lines in the worst possible taste as for the it is certainly a most remarkable poem the author...	45
in or as he was by century movements yet showed at times an originality of ear that has never been appreciated as far as i know indeed his has never been perceived certainly it has never been touched upon by any of his critics from downwards yet it seems necessary to touch upon it here as the may seem or how can we...	45
in which a writer that which in the world around him is ideal and in numbers too not that his was less intense than theirs far from it such energy as his can only exist as the of that enormous which is at the heart of all production yet his dramatic instinct was stronger still here indeed is the of s work and if we wil...	45
did show there was in it nothing one sided nothing as in the painful which in some children rather than it is important to bear this in mind in for assuredly it may be said of the human race more emphatically than of any other that any departure from the laws of growth of a species is not to be taken as a sign that the...	45
his behalf assuredly the personal interest in a poet having such a story as his is what the critic has specially to guard against in trying to find his proper place in the of our poetic literature to the marvellous boy of that kind of interest which has been associated with his name for more than a century and at the s...	45

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