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... verse in the first flush of youth rather than in a ripe old age : it is equally obvious that in moments of great ... verses were hammered out in the mind at a time when paper and pen were not available , on the march , in the trench , on ...
... verse in the first flush of youth rather than in a ripe old age : it is equally obvious that in moments of great ... verses were hammered out in the mind at a time when paper and pen were not available , on the march , in the trench , on ...
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... to us the stark and chattering skeleton beneath . By a quaint paradox individualism has expanded into a passion for companionship . Think of the interchange of letters in verse between Graves 90 BOOKS AND THEIR WRITERS.
... to us the stark and chattering skeleton beneath . By a quaint paradox individualism has expanded into a passion for companionship . Think of the interchange of letters in verse between Graves 90 BOOKS AND THEIR WRITERS.
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Stuart Petre Brodie Mais. Think of the interchange of letters in verse between Graves , Sassoon , and Nichols . Multiply that a million- fold ... read any soldier's poetry : his work is brimful of warmth and tenderness for others . The ...
Stuart Petre Brodie Mais. Think of the interchange of letters in verse between Graves , Sassoon , and Nichols . Multiply that a million- fold ... read any soldier's poetry : his work is brimful of warmth and tenderness for others . The ...
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... verse is apparently over , and in the half- dozen Shakespearean sonnets here given us we gloat over the recovery of the author of Poems and Ballads . He sings again the hymn of Beauty simply and thoughtfully , seeking , as ever , for an ...
... verse is apparently over , and in the half- dozen Shakespearean sonnets here given us we gloat over the recovery of the author of Poems and Ballads . He sings again the hymn of Beauty simply and thoughtfully , seeking , as ever , for an ...
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... verses by which he is represented there is enough music and sweetness to send those who are still unacquainted with his work back to his greater , more ambitious poetry . In The Gipsy Girl he pictures with exquisite economy and sureness ...
... verses by which he is represented there is enough music and sweetness to send those who are still unacquainted with his work back to his greater , more ambitious poetry . In The Gipsy Girl he pictures with exquisite economy and sureness ...
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61 psl. - It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
85 psl. - HARK! hark, my soul; angelic songs are swelling O'er earth's green fields, and ocean's wavebeat shore : How sweet the truth those blessed strains are telling Of that new life when sin shall be no more. Angels of Jesus, angels of light, Singing to welcome the pilgrims of the night. 2 Onward we go, for still we hear them singing, 'Come, weary souls, for Jesus bids you come...
207 psl. - The expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is lust in action...
210 psl. - The streets were mine, the temple was mine, the people were mine, their clothes and gold and silver were mine as much as their sparkling eyes, fair skins and ruddy faces. The skies were mine, and so were the sun and moon and stars, and all the World was mine and I the only spectator and enjoyer of it.
246 psl. - Ah! no; a shepherd of a different stock, And far unlike him, feeds this little flock: A jovial youth, who thinks his Sunday's task As much as God or man can fairly ask; The rest he gives to loves and labours light. To fields the morning, and to feasts the night; None better...
141 psl. - Was there love once? I have forgotten her. Was there grief once? Grief yet is mine. O loved, living, dying, heroic soldier, All, all my joy, my grief, my love, are thine.
216 psl. - You will see Coleridge he who sits obscure In the exceeding lustre and the pure Intense irradiation of a mind, Which, with its own internal lightning blind, Flags wearily through darkness and despair A cloud-encircled meteor of the air, A hooded eagle among blinking owls.
296 psl. - Shy as the squirrel and wayward as the swallow, Swift as the swallow along the river's light Circleting the surface to meet his mirror'd winglets, Fleeter she seems in her stay than in her flight.
52 psl. - Oh! it is only a novel!" replies the young lady; while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. - "It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda;" or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.
53 psl. - I could no more write a romance than an epic poem. I could not sit seriously down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life...