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The English elocutionist, a collection of the finest passages of poetry and ... - Page 37
by Charles Hartley - 1872
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The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 90

1877 - 832 pages
...idea here is a trifle complex 1 , but the music is exquisite. Keats has the same perfection :— Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry...stood in tears amid the alien corn ; The same that oft times hath Charmed magic casements, opening en the foam Of perilous seas, in fairy lands forlorn....
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The Dublin university magazine

University magazine - 1877 - 810 pages
...the music is exquisite. Keats has the same perfection : — Thou wast not born for death, iramortal Bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The...stood in tears amid the alien corn ; The same that oft times hath Charmed magic casements, opening en the foam Of perilous seas, in fairy laude forlorn....
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Notes and Queries

1877 - 574 pages
...published, and who was the author of this volume ? CUTHBERT BEDE. KEATS'S " ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE." — " Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through...for home She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The tame that ofU.im.ei hath Charmed magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands...
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The Elements of Rhetoric

James De Mille - 1878 - 618 pages
...slumber on." ode being full of ecstatic joy, and that of Keats evincing sadness and gloom : " Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird ! No hungry...hath Charmed magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn." From Hyperion : "As when upon a tranced summer night Those...
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On Frost

Edwin Harrison Cady, Louis J. Budd - 1991 - 280 pages
...mounch'd and mounch'd. 'Give me,' quoth I. 'Aroint thec, witch!' the rump-fed ronyon cries. Or Keats: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through...amid the alien corn; The same that oft-times hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. Or Coleridge's...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...49 Darkling I listen; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, (1. 51-52) 50 y of innuendos, (1. 13—15) 66 perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. (1. 63—70) 51 Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is...
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Best Remembered Poems

Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 pages
...ecstasy! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod. VII The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient...amid the alien corn; The same that oft-times hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. VIII Forlorn!...
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Keats the Poet

Stuart M. Sperry - 1994 - 376 pages
...realization is restrained almost voluptuously and only gradually permitted to infiltrate awareness: The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient...amid the alien corn; The same that oft-times hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. (63-70) The...
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Selected Poems and Letters of Keats

John Keats, Robert Gittings - 1995 - 324 pages
...tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: 65 Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through...amid the alien corn; The same that oft-times hath Charm' d magic casements, opening on the foam 70 Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. 8 Forlorn!...
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The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry

Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...sod, 60 Thou wast not bom for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice 1 hear this passing night was heard In ancient days...found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien com; The same that oft-times hath Charm 'd magic casements,...
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