This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ... individual names, and thus make his narrative lifelike. Great poets use specific words with effect. For example, --The hull drives on, though mast and sail be torn.--Byron. The day drags through, though storm keeps out the sun.--Byron. From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder. Byron. He is ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ... individual names, and thus make his narrative lifelike. Great poets use specific words with effect. For example, --The hull drives on, though mast and sail be torn.--Byron. The day drags through, though storm keeps out the sun.--Byron. From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder. Byron. He is an evening reveller, who makes His life an infancy, and sings his fill; At intervals, some bird from out the brakes Starts into voice a moment, then is still. Byron. Hedge-crickets sing, and now with treble soft The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft, And gathering swallows twitter in the skies. Keats. Amid yon tuft of hazel-trees That twinkle to the gusty breeze, Behold him perch'd in ecstasies Yet seeming still to hover; There, where the flutter of his wings Upon his back and body flings Shadows and sunny glimmerings, That cover him all over. Wordsworth. And, for tho winter fireside meet, Between the andirons' straddling feet, The mug of cider simmered slow, The apples sputtered in a row, And, close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. Whittier. The grey sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low; And the startled little waves that leap In fiery ringlets from their sleep, As I gain tho cove with pushing prow, And quench its speed i' the slushy sand. Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach; Three fields to cross till a farm appears; A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch And blue spurt of a lighted match, And a voice less loud, thro' its joys and fears, Than the two hearts beating each to each 1 Browning. I. IL At last her father's prow put out At last her father look a voyage to sea. to sea. The line under I. is obviously much superior to that under II., --which was Byron's first draft, --
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