The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons , Now less than smallest dwarfs , in narrow room Throng numberless ; like that pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount : or faery elves , Whose midnight revels , by a forest - side Or fountain ...
... In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons , Now less than smallest dwarfs , in narrow room Throng numberless ; like that pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount : or faery elves , Whose midnight revels , by a forest - side Or fountain ...
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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.