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... old stocks and stubs of tress , Whereon nor fruit , nor leaf was ever seen , Did hang upon the ragged rocky knees ; On which had many wretches hanged bøen , Whose carcasses were scatter'd on the green , And thrown about the clifts .
... old stocks and stubs of tress , Whereon nor fruit , nor leaf was ever seen , Did hang upon the ragged rocky knees ; On which had many wretches hanged bøen , Whose carcasses were scatter'd on the green , And thrown about the clifts .
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... Of pow'r to bid fresh gardens blow ' Mid chearless Lapland's barren snow ; Whose rapid wings thy flight convey , Thro ' air , and over earth and sea : While the vast various landscape lies Conspicuous to thy piercing eyes : O lover ...
... Of pow'r to bid fresh gardens blow ' Mid chearless Lapland's barren snow ; Whose rapid wings thy flight convey , Thro ' air , and over earth and sea : While the vast various landscape lies Conspicuous to thy piercing eyes : O lover ...
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Yet lives there one , whose heedless eye , Shall scorn thy pale shrine glimm'ring near ? With him , sweet bard , may fancy die , And joy desert the blooming year , But thou , lorn stream , whose sullen tide No sedge crown'd lifters now ...
Yet lives there one , whose heedless eye , Shall scorn thy pale shrine glimm'ring near ? With him , sweet bard , may fancy die , And joy desert the blooming year , But thou , lorn stream , whose sullen tide No sedge crown'd lifters now ...
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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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