The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... darker at his frown . His father , after Reading was taken by Essex , came to reside in his house ; and his school in- creased ... At Whitsuntide , in his thirty - fifth year , he married Mary , the daughter of Mr. Powel , a justice of ...
... darker at his frown . His father , after Reading was taken by Essex , came to reside in his house ; and his school in- creased ... At Whitsuntide , in his thirty - fifth year , he married Mary , the daughter of Mr. Powel , a justice of ...
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... darkness , these transient and involuntary excursions and re- trocessions of invention , having some appearance of deviation from the common train of Nature , are eagerly caught by the lovers of a wonder . Yet something of this ...
... darkness , these transient and involuntary excursions and re- trocessions of invention , having some appearance of deviation from the common train of Nature , are eagerly caught by the lovers of a wonder . Yet something of this ...
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... darkness and with danger compassed round . ' This darkness , had his eyes been better employed , had undoubtedly deserved compassion ; but to add the mention 22 of danger was ungrateful and unjust . He was fallen indeed on evil days ...
... darkness and with danger compassed round . ' This darkness , had his eyes been better employed , had undoubtedly deserved compassion ; but to add the mention 22 of danger was ungrateful and unjust . He was fallen indeed on evil days ...
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... dark trackless woods , falls asleep by some murmuring water , and with melancholy enthusiasm expects some dream of prognostication , or some music played by aërial per- formers . Both Mirth and Melancholy are solitary , silent ...
... dark trackless woods , falls asleep by some murmuring water , and with melancholy enthusiasm expects some dream of prognostication , or some music played by aërial per- formers . Both Mirth and Melancholy are solitary , silent ...
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... Darkness , brooding on thy sight , Exiled the sovereign lamp of light ; Say , what could then one cheering hope diffuse ? What friends were thine , save Memory and the Muse ? Hence the rich spoils , thy studious youth Caught from the ...
... Darkness , brooding on thy sight , Exiled the sovereign lamp of light ; Say , what could then one cheering hope diffuse ? What friends were thine , save Memory and the Muse ? Hence the rich spoils , thy studious youth Caught from the ...
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Page 100 - This neglect of rime is so little to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers, that it is rather to be esteemed an example, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of riming.