The Poets' Beasts: A Sequel to "The Poets' Birds,"Chatto and Windus, 1885 - 356 strani |
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The Poets Beasts: A Sequel to the Poets Birds (Classic Reprint) Phil Robinson Predogled ni na voljo - 2018 |
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Stran 56 - Slender. That's meat and drink to me now : I have seen Sackerson loose twenty times, and have taken him by the chain: but, I warrant you, the women have so cried and shrieked at it, that it passed : but women, indeed, cannot abide 'em ; they are very ill-favoured rough things.
Stran 326 - So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite." The sea, " spaniel-like with parasitic kiss," laps on the shore. The " baying beagle " is a general favourite, in spite of the hare being its victim, and a score of poets are to be found in the meet when puss is the game. To
Stran 246 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last he crops the flow'ry food And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Stran 56 - Slender. Why do your dogs bark so? be there bears i" the town ? " Anne. I think there are, sir ; I heard them talked of. " Slender. I love the sport well; but I shall as soon quarrel at it, as any man in England.—You are afraid, if you see the bear loose, are you not
Stran 223 - twould boldly trip And print those roses on my lip." But the wanton troopers riding by shot the fawn, and it died— " Ungentle men ! they cannot thrive Who killed thee. Thou ne'er didst alive Them any harm : alas ! nor could Thy death yet do them any good. And
Stran 243 - The bleating kind Eye the bleak heavens, and next the glistening earth, With looks of dumb despair, then sad dispersed Dig for the withered herb, through heaps of snow." Fond as poets are of their sheep, they hardly justify their excessive affection for them by the character which they give the " woolly people.
Stran 22 - The steer and lion at one crib shall meet, And harmless serpents lick the Pilgrim's feet." The weary Progress will then be over : the chained lions and the loose ones will have no further terrors for Faithful, and the beasts that came along
Stran 341 - fav'rite has no friend ! From hence, ye beauties undeceived, Know one false step is ne'er retrieved, And be with caution bold. Not all that tempts your wand'ring eyes And heedless hearts is lawful prize— Nor all that glitters gold;
Stran 354 - beware of too sublime a sense Of your own worth and consequence ; The man who dreams himself so great, And his importance of such weight, That all around and all that's done Must move and act for him alone, Will learn in school of tribulation The folly of his expectation.
Stran 343 - mother before the Duke; and carry it to their credit the public spirit of those stitchers of Tooley Street. " Give the gods a thankful sacrifice. When it pleaseth their deities to take the wife of a man from him, it shows to man the tailors of the earth.