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... disobedience lost, now sing Recover?d Paradise to all mankind, By one mans firm obedience fully tri?d Through all temptation, and the Tempter foil?d In all his wiles, defeated and repuls?t, And Eden rais?d in the wast Wilderness. Thou Spirit who ledst this glorious Eremite Into the Desert, his Victorious Field Against the Spiritual Foe, and broughtst him thence By proof t...

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...rm obedience fully tri’d Through all temptation, and the Tempter foil’d 5 In all his wiles, defeated and repuls’t, And Eden rais’d in the wast W... ...s With prosperous wing full summ’d to tell of deeds Above Heroic, though in secret done, 15 And unrecorded left through many an Age, Worthy t’h... ...nor was long His witness unconfirm’d: on him baptiz’d Heaven open’d, and in likeness of a Dove 30 The Spirit descended, while the Fathers voice ... ... return’d from field at Eve, He saw approach, who first with curious eye Perus’d him, then with words thus utt’red spake. 320 Sir, what ill c... ... wise and vertuous man attains: And who attains not, ill aspires to rule Cities of men or head-strong Multitudes, 470 Subject himself to Anarchy ... ...wide, to over-run Large Countries, and in field great Battels win, Great Cities by assault: what do these Worthies, But rob and spoil, burn, sla... ...d wine, With herds the pastures throng’d, with flocks the hills, 260 Huge Cities and high towr’d, that well might seem The seats of mightiest Mon...

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...e of Somerset. Bedford. Hung be y heavens with black, yield day to night; Comets importing change of Times and States, Brandish your crystall Tresses in the Skie, And with them scourge the bad revolting Stars, That have consented unto Henries death: King Henry the Fift, too famous to live long, England ne?re lost a King of so much worth. Glost. England ne?re had a King unt...

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...orting change of Times and States, 11 Brandish your crystall Tresses in the Skie, 12 And with them scourge the bad reuolting Stars, 13 ... ... He ne’re lift vp his Hand, but conquered. 25 Exe. We mourne in black, why mourn we not in blood? 26 Henry is dead, and neuer shal... ...ommand the Prince and Realme. 48 Thy Wife is prowd, she holdeth thee in awe, 49 More then God or Religious Church- men may. 50 G... ...907 With which he yoaketh your rebellious Neckes, 908 Razeth your Cities, and subuerts your Townes, 909 And in a moment makes them desol... ... me hearing what I shall reply. 1233 If I were couetous, ambitious, or peruerse, 1234 As he will haue me: how am I so poore? 1235 Or how h... ...first Part of Henry the Sixt Shakespeare: First Folio 1637 And see the Cities and the Townes defac’t, 1638 By wasting Ruine of the cruell Foe,... ...h reclaym’d 1698 To your obedience, fiftie Fortresses, 1699 Twelue Cities, and seuen walled Townes of strength, 1700 Beside fiue hundred P... ... And you my Lords, me thinkes you do not well 1879 To beare with their peruerse Obiections: 1880 Much lesse to take occasion from their mouthe... .... He Fables not, I heare the enemie: 1994 Out some light Horsemen, and peruse their Wings. 1995 O negligent and heedlesse Discipline, 1996 ...

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...Excerpt: The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida; The Prologue -- In Troy there lyes the Scene: From Iles of Greece The Princes Orgillous, their high blood chaf?d Have to the Port of Athens sent their shippes Fraught with the ministers and instruments Of cruell Warre: Sixty and nine that wo...

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... The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida XX1 The Prologue. 2 In Troy there lyes the Scene: From Iles of Greece 3 The Princes Orgi... ...ts all on hazard. And hither am I come, 24 A Prologue arm’d, but not in confidence 25 Of Authors pen, or Actors voyce; but suited 26 ... ...n confidence 25 Of Authors pen, or Actors voyce; but suited 26 In like conditions, as our Argument; 27 To tell you (faire Beholders)... ...How could Communities, 563 Degrees in Schooles, and Brother- hoods in Cities, 564 Peacefull Commerce from diuidable shores, 565 The pri... ...ops haue worne the Stones of Troy; 1821 And blinde obliuion swallow’d Cities vp; 1822 And mightie States characterlesse are grated 1823 T... ... Now Hector I haue fed mine eyes on thee, 2801 I haue with exact view perus’d thee Hector, 2802 And quoted ioynt by ioynt. 2803 Hect...

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...t, Gloucester, and Edmond. Kent. I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany, then Cornwall. Glou. It did alwayes seeme so to us: But now in the division of the Kingdome, it appeares not which of the Dukes hee valewes most, for qualities are so weigh?d, that curiosity in neither, can make choise of eithers moity. Kent. Is not this your Son, my Lord? Glou. His b...

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...rnwall. 6 Glou. It did alwayes seeme so to vs: But 7 now in the diuision of the Kingdome, it ap-peares 8 not which of the Duk... ...es hee valewes 9 most, for qualities are so weigh’d, that curiosity in nei-ther, 10 can make choise of eithers moity. 11 Kent. ... ...y order of Law, some 23 yeere elder then this; who, yet is no deerer in my ac-count, 24 though this Knaue came somthing sawcily to the 25... ...Brother, that I haue not all ore- read; and for so 373 much as I haue perus’d, I finde it not fit for your ore- loo-king. 375 Glou. Giue... ...t effects. Loue cooles, friendship falls off, 437 Brothers diuide. In Cities, mutinies; in Countries, dis-cord; 438 in Pallaces, Treason; an... ...o this vnder Globe, 1241 That by thy comfortable Beames I may 1242 Peruse this Letter. Nothing almost sees miracles 1243 But miserie. I kn...

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...FACE; This book is essentially a desultory book, the result of intermittent observation, and often, no doubt, of rash assumption. Having been written in Paris, at odd moments, during the last two years of the war, it could hardly be more than a series of disjointed notes; and the excuse for its publication lies in the fact that the very conditions which made more consecuti...

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...lectual Honesty, 24 -- I, 24 -- II, 26 -- III, 28 -- V? Continuity, 31 -- I, 31 -- II, 32 -- III, 35 -- IV, 37 -- VI? The New Frenchwoman, 39 -- VII? In Conclusion, 48 -- I, 48 -- II, 52 -- III, 53...

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...I — The New Frenchwoman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 VII — In Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 I ... ... observa tion, and often, no doubt, of rash assumption. Having been written in Paris, at odd moments, during the last two years of the war, it could ... ...e than a series of disjointed notes; and the excuse for its publication lies in the fact that the very conditions which made more consecutive work imp... ...s grown up as it has about similar carefully guarded relics in our expanding cities, and in many European ones as well. It is probable that not a day ... ... by what they saw if Germany held our Atlantic sea board, with all its great cities, together with, say, Pittsburg and Buffalo, and all our best manho... ... the French have beautiful stone quays along the great rivers on which their cities are built, and why noble monuments of archi tecture, and gardens ... ... have no more to do with him. So he goes off to fulfil a mining engagement in Peru, and she hides herself in the country....” It would be impossible to...

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...Excerpt: Etymology (SUPPLIED BY A LATE CONSUMPTIVE USHER TO A GRAMMAR SCHOOL.); The pale Usher --threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dus...

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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANI... ... Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 57 Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Star... ...rk Massacre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294 67 Cutting In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296 68 The Bla... ...an of him. But like Czar Peter content to toil in the shipyards of foreign cities, Queequeg disdained no seeming ignominy, if thereby he might haply g... ...tinctly shown how from those whalemen at last eventuated the liberation of Peru, Chili, and Bolivia from the yoke of Old Spain, and the establishment ... ...hat hideous whiteness that so stirred me?” Second: To the native Indian of Peru, the continual sight of the snow howdahed Andes conveys naught of drea... ...ugh the entire breadth of the state of New York; through numerous populous cities and most thriving vil lages; through long, dismal, uninhabited swam... ...ugh which he floats; his swart visage and bold swagger are not unshunned in cities. Once a vagabond on his own canal, I have received good turns from o... ...ing waters, than those off the Rio de la Plata, or the in shore ground off Peru. It was my turn to stand at the foremast head; and with my shoulders l...

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...in the blissful Seat, Sing Heav?nly Muse, that on the secret top Of OREB, or of SINAI, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed, In the Beginning how the Heav?ns and Earth Rose out of CHAOS: Or if SION Hill Delight thee more, and SILOA?S Brook that flow?d Fast by the Oracle of God; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventrous Song, That with no middle flig...

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...of SINAI, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed, In the Beginning how the Heav’ns and Earth Rose out of CHAOS: Or if SIO... ...o soar Above th’ AONIAN Mount, while it pursues 15 Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhime. And chiefly Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before... ...20 Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad’st it pregnant: What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the hi... ... the house of God. In Courts and Palaces he also Reigns And in luxurious Cities, where the noyse Of riot ascends above thir loftiest Towrs, An... ...e Goal With rapid wheels, or fronted Brigads form. As when to warn proud Cities warr appears Wag’d in the troubl’d Skie, and Armies rush To Ba... ...s smil’d, With fragrance and with joy my heart oreflow’d. My self I then perus’d, and Limb by Limb Survey’d, and sometimes went, and sometimes r... ...pirit perhaps he also saw Rich MEXICO the seat of MOTEZUME, And CUSCO in PERU, the richer seat Of ATABALIPA, and yet unspoil’d GUIANA, whose g... ...saw wide Territorie spred Before him, Towns, and rural works between, 635 Cities of Men with lofty Gates and Towrs, Concours in Arms, fierce Face...

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...Excerpt: Easter Holidays; Hail! festal Easter that dost bring Approach of sweetly-smiling spring, When Nature?s clad in green: When feather?d songsters through the grove With beasts confess the power of love And brighten all the scene. Now youths the breaking stages load That swiftly rattling o?er the road To Greenwich haste away: While som...

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...On Quitting School for College, 38 -- Absence: A Farewell Ode on Quitting School for Jesus College, Cambridge, 39 -- Happiness, 40 -- A Wish: Written in Jesus Wood, Feb. 10, 1792, 43 -- An Ode in the Manner of Anacreon, 44 -- To Disappointment, 45 -- A Fragment Found in a Lecture-Room, 46 -- Ode, 47 -- A Lover?s Complaint to his Mistress, 49 -- With Fielding?s ??Amelia??, ...

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... . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Happiness . . . . . . . . . . . 43 A Wish: Written in Jesus Wood, Feb. 10, 1792 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 An Ode in the ... ... . . . . 45 To Disappointment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 A Fragment Found in a Lecture-Room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Ode . . . .... ...n an Autumnal Evening . . . . . . . . . . 66 To Fortune: On buying a ticket in the Irish Lottery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Perspiration. A Travel... ... young and old Pursue the all-delusive power of Gold. Fond man! should all Peru thy empire own, For thee tho’ all Golconda’s jewels shone, What gr... ...itary thing, Mid countless brethren with a lonely heart Through courts and cities the smooth savage roams Feeling himself, his own low self the who... ...nd sigh’d, and sigh’d! — for, ah! how soon Eve darkens into night. Mine eye perus’d With tearful vacancy the dampy grass Which wept and glitter’... ...ous, — all treasures thine, The golden corn, the olive, and the vine. Fair cities, gallant mansions, castles old, And forests, where beside his lea...

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...ing fed; Grey Truth is now her painted toy; Yet still she turns her restless head: But O, sick children of the world, Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked tune that Chronos sings, Words alone are certain good. Where are now the warring kings, Word be-mockers?--By the Rood, Where are now the watring kings? An idle word is now the...

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... -- THE INDIAN TO HIS LOVE, 11 -- THE FALLING OF THE LEAVES, 12 -- EPHEMERA, 13 -- THE MADNESS OF KING GOLL, 13 -- THE STOLEN CHILD, 16 -- TO AN ISLE IN THE WATER, 17 -- DOWN BY THE SALLEY GARDENS, 18 -- THE MEDITATION OF THE OLD FISHERMAN, 18 -- THE BALLAD OF FATHER O?HART, 19 -- THE BALLAD OF MOLL MAGEE, 20 -- THE BALLAD OF THE FOXHUNTER, 22 -- THE ROSE 26 -- TO THE ROSE...

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...EN CHILD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 TO AN ISLE IN THE WATER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 DOWN BY THE SAL... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN IN PARADISE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 WHO GOES WITH FERGUS? . . . . . . ... ... TO SOME I HA VE TALKED WITH BY THE FIRE . . . . . . . . . . 44 TO IRELAND IN THE COMING TIMES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 THE WIND AMONG THE R... ...han changing of night and day, That murmuring and longing came From marble cities loud with tabors of old In dove grey faery lands; From battle banner... ...olonel went out sailing. A MODEL FOR THE LAUREATE ON thrones from China to Peru All sorts of kings have sat That men and women of all sorts Proclaimed...

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... at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a nation...

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...Middlemarch George Eliot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brook... ...entleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand in hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the cou... ...earts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That... ...r ideal of life in village charities, patronage of the humbler clergy, the perusal of “Female Scripture Characters,” unfolding the private experience ... ...opened the Continent to travellers. Indeed I think it is one among several cities to which an extreme hyperbole has been applied— ‘See Rome and die:’ ... ... work is all their prize— Without them how could laws, or arts, Or towered cities rise? I n watching effects, if only of an electric battery, it is of... ...e:—‘Observation with extensive view,’ must look everywhere, ‘from China to Peru,’ as somebody says—Johnson, I think, ‘The Rambler,’ you know. That is ... ...r,’ you know. That is what I have done up to a certain point—not as far as Peru; but I’ve not always stayed at home—I saw it wouldn’t do. I’ve been in...

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... the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o?clock, in full sea-rig, and with my chest, containing an outfit for a two or three years? voyage, which I had undertaken from a determination to cure, if possible, b...

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... THUNDER STORM CHAPTER XXXV — A DOUBLE REEF TOP SAIL BREEZE—SCURVY—A FRIEND IN . . . . . . . . 183 NEED—PREPARING FOR PORT—THE GULF STREAM CHAPTER ... ...n to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o’clock, in f... ...ery well for a jack tar. But it is impossible to deceive the practised eye in these matters; and while I supposed myself to be looking as salt as Ne... ...but little intermission, for four hours. It was all about himself, and the Peruvian government, and the Dublin frigate, and Lord James Townshend, ... ...d named the Ayacucho, after the place where the battle was fought that gave Peru her independence, and was now owned by a Scotchman named Wilson, w... ...te, etc., between the coast, the Sandwich Islands, and the leeward coast of Peru and Chili. Her captain and officers were Americans, and also a par... ...ibutaries—the Sacramento, San Joaquin, and Feather Rivers—to the far inland cities of Sacramento, Stockton, and Marysville. The dock into whic... ...es, and agricultural wealth, and rapidly filling population, and its large cities, so far from the coast, with their education, religion, arts, an...