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... stars , of the rainbow or the landscape , must remain , to the seeing , enigmatical . We can no more describe to you , fortunate reader , the light which our own fancy sheds around objects , by which our minds take cognizance of them ...
... stars , of the rainbow or the landscape , must remain , to the seeing , enigmatical . We can no more describe to you , fortunate reader , the light which our own fancy sheds around objects , by which our minds take cognizance of them ...
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... stars hide themselves in the sky ; the moon , cold and pale , sinks in the western wave ; but thou thy- self movest alone . Who can be a companion of thy course ? The oaks of the mountain fall ; the mountains themselves decay with years ...
... stars hide themselves in the sky ; the moon , cold and pale , sinks in the western wave ; but thou thy- self movest alone . Who can be a companion of thy course ? The oaks of the mountain fall ; the mountains themselves decay with years ...
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... stars behind it with their weeping eyes . Thy shield is the aged moon : thy sword a vapor half kindled with fire . Dim and feeble is the chief who traveled in brightness before . But thy steps are on the winds of the desert . The storms ...
... stars behind it with their weeping eyes . Thy shield is the aged moon : thy sword a vapor half kindled with fire . Dim and feeble is the chief who traveled in brightness before . But thy steps are on the winds of the desert . The storms ...
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... stars fade at the approach of morning light , so these recede before the noonday splendor of " Paradise Lost ; " an epic poem only inferior to the " Iliad , " in force and heroic fire , and not in profound contemplation . The ...
... stars fade at the approach of morning light , so these recede before the noonday splendor of " Paradise Lost ; " an epic poem only inferior to the " Iliad , " in force and heroic fire , and not in profound contemplation . The ...
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... star in the evening of his life , whose mild face was never hid among clouds of disappointment . Shortly after this event , he was ordained minister of the church at Kirkcudbright , on the presentation of the Earl of Selkirk . But the ...
... star in the evening of his life , whose mild face was never hid among clouds of disappointment . Shortly after this event , he was ordained minister of the church at Kirkcudbright , on the presentation of the Earl of Selkirk . But the ...
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