The New Double Acrostics1867 - Всего страниц: 16 |
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acrostics AMEN CORNER animal arms beautiful bird bold bright Briton call'd celebrated charms cloth cockneys cricket dance dear deeds doth doubt dress e'en eyes fame famous fierce fiery flame flow flowers folks foreign France French gain'd geese glorious gout Greek grief hand hath head hear heart holy honour Italy kind king lady fair land Latin letter light live maiden maids mountain Nature's Ne'er never Nymph o'er ocean pain pair pleasant poet Poet's posi pray Price Quaker queen reckon'd reign renown'd resound river roll'd Roman Rome round Saxon Scotland seen shade Shakespeare shelter soft song sound Spain sting stood surely sweet thee there's things thou art told tongue town transpose Twas twill voice vowels ween well-known whole wind wise woman wood word yeast
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Стр. 108 - Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise ! * Each stamps its image as the other flies.
Стр. 108 - For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, 'tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at : I am not what I am.
Стр. 97 - Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown : He raised a mortal to the skies : She drew an angel down.
Стр. 95 - Two Hazel Nuts I threw into the Flame, And to each Nut I gave a Sweet-heart's Name. This with the loudest Bounce me sore amaz'd, That in a Flame of brightest Colour blaz'd. As blaz'd the Nut, so may thy Passion grow, For 'twas thy Nut that did so brightly glow.
Стр. 96 - Onward they came, a dark continuous cloud Of congregated myriads numberless, The rushing of whose wings was as the sound Of some broad river, headlong in its course Plunged from a mountain summit ; or the roar Of a wild ocean in the autumnal storm, Shattering its billows on a shore of rocks.
Стр. 101 - To deal out authors by retail, Like penny pots of Oxford ale : Oh 'tis a service irksome more Than tugging at the slavish oar ! Yet such his task, a dismal truth, Who watches o'er the bent of youth, And while, a paltry stipend earning, He sows the richest seeds of learning, And tills their minds with proper care, And sees them their due produce bear, No joys, alas ! his toil beguile, His own lies fallow all the while. " Yet still he's on the road," you say,
Стр. 97 - HEAP on more wood ! — the wind is chill ; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.
Стр. 102 - Of us, outcast, exiled, his new delight, Mankind, created, and for him this world. So farewell hope ; and with hope, farewell fear ; Farewell remorse : all good to me is lost ; Evil be thou my good : by thee, at least, Divided empire with heaven's King I hold : By thee, and more than half, perhaps, will reign, As man, ere long, and this new world, shall know.
Стр. 101 - Then shifting his side (as a lawyer knows how), He pleaded again in behalf of the Eyes : But what were his arguments few people know, For the court did not think they were equally wise. So his lordship decreed, with a grave., solemn tone, Decisive and clear, without one if or but — " That, whenever the Nose put his spectacles on, By daylight or candlelight — Eyes should be shut...
Стр. 91 - Who flourish'd long in tender bliss, and rear'd A numerous offspring, lovely like themselves, And good, the grace of all the country round.