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Оглавление“And there soft swept in velvet green,
The plain with many a glade between
Whose tangled alleys far invade
The depths of the brown forest shade;
And the tall fern obscured the lawn,
Fair shelter for the sportive fawn.
There, tufted close with copse-wood green,
Was many a swelling hillock seen,
And all around was verdure meet
For pressure of the fairies’ feet.
The glossy valley loved the park,
The yew tree lent its shadows dark,
And many an old oak worn and bare,
With all its shivered boughs was there.”
“High o’er the south huge Ben ven ue
Down to the lake his masses threw,
Crags, knowls, and mounds con fusedly hurl’d
The frag ments of an earlier wurruld !” etc.
“Can history cut my hay or get my corn in?
Or can philosophy vend it in the market?”
“Oh for a plump fat leg of mutton,
Veal, lamb, capon, pig, and cony,
None is happy but a glutton,
None an ass but who wants money.”
If it unveiled its beauty to the moon.”
When he reached the foot of the dogwood tree.”
COMPARISON OF THE CLIMATE OF EUROPE AND AMERICA.
VISIT TO STRATFORD-ON-AVON—SHAKSPERE.
A VISIT TO DUBLIN ABOUT THE TIME OF THE QUEEN’S MARRIAGE.
CLOSING SCENES OF THE SESSION AT WASHINGTON.
That scorn old wine.’
“Seated beside this Sherris wine,
And near to books and shapes divine,
Which poets and the painters past
Have wrought in line that aye shall last,—
E’en I, with Shakspere’s self beside me,
And one whose tender talk can guide me
Through fears and pains and troublous themes,
Whose smile doth fall upon my dreams
Like sunshine on a stormy sea,******”
“Well knew to still the wild woods when they roared
And hush the moaning winds;”
