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Page 88
O'er all the dreary coasts ! Dreadful gleams , Dismal screams , Fires that glow , Shrieks of woe , Sullen moans , Hollow groans , And cries of tortur'd ghosts ! But hark ! he strikes the golden lyre , And see , the tortur'd ghosts ...
O'er all the dreary coasts ! Dreadful gleams , Dismal screams , Fires that glow , Shrieks of woe , Sullen moans , Hollow groans , And cries of tortur'd ghosts ! But hark ! he strikes the golden lyre , And see , the tortur'd ghosts ...
Page 237
So watry fowl , that seek their fishy food , With wings expanded o'er the foaming flood , Now failing smooth the level surface sweep , Now dip their pinions in the briny deep . Thus o'er the world of waters Hernes flew , Till now the ...
So watry fowl , that seek their fishy food , With wings expanded o'er the foaming flood , Now failing smooth the level surface sweep , Now dip their pinions in the briny deep . Thus o'er the world of waters Hernes flew , Till now the ...
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O'er his wounds Loose flow'd her hair , and bubbling from her eyes Impeiuous forrow lav'd the purple clay . When forth in groans her lamentations broke . O torn for ever from my weeping eyes ! Thou , who despairing to obtain her heart ...
O'er his wounds Loose flow'd her hair , and bubbling from her eyes Impeiuous forrow lav'd the purple clay . When forth in groans her lamentations broke . O torn for ever from my weeping eyes ! Thou , who despairing to obtain her heart ...
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| Title | The Art of Poetry on a New Plan: Illustrated with a Great Variety of Examples from the Best English Poets ; and of Translations from the Ancients ... Volume 2 of The Art of Poetry on a New Plan: Illustrated with a Great Variety of Examples from the Best English Poets; and of Translations from the Ancients, John Newbery |
| Author | John Newbery |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Gregg International Publishers Limited, 1969 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Sep 27, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0576029947, 9780576029940 |
| Length | 382 pages |
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