The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... either university was The Grateful Fair , writ- ten by Christopher Smart , and represented at Pembroke College , Cambridge , about 1747 . courtiers and court - ladies , their grooms and made B 2 THE LIFE OF MILTON . 9.
... either university was The Grateful Fair , writ- ten by Christopher Smart , and represented at Pembroke College , Cambridge , about 1747 . courtiers and court - ladies , their grooms and made B 2 THE LIFE OF MILTON . 9.
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... fair inhabitant ; thus he pursues real gaiety through a day of labour or of play , and delights himself at night with the fanciful narratives of superstitious ig- norance . The pensive man , at one time , walks unseen to muse at ...
... fair inhabitant ; thus he pursues real gaiety through a day of labour or of play , and delights himself at night with the fanciful narratives of superstitious ig- norance . The pensive man , at one time , walks unseen to muse at ...
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... universal as his theme ; Astonishing as Chaos ; as the bloom Of blowing Eden fair ; as Heaven sublime ! DR . JOHNSON'S PROLOGUE TO THE MASK OF COMUS . ENCOMIUMS UPON MILTON . 95 Address to Great Britain From Thomson's Summer.
... universal as his theme ; Astonishing as Chaos ; as the bloom Of blowing Eden fair ; as Heaven sublime ! DR . JOHNSON'S PROLOGUE TO THE MASK OF COMUS . ENCOMIUMS UPON MILTON . 95 Address to Great Britain From Thomson's Summer.
Page 97
... fair , ye wise , ye brave ! " Tis yours to crown desert - beyond the grave . FROM GRAY'S PROGRESS OF POESY . NOR second HE that rode sublime Upon the seraph - wings of ecstasy ; The secrets of the abyss to spy , He pass'd the flaming ...
... fair , ye wise , ye brave ! " Tis yours to crown desert - beyond the grave . FROM GRAY'S PROGRESS OF POESY . NOR second HE that rode sublime Upon the seraph - wings of ecstasy ; The secrets of the abyss to spy , He pass'd the flaming ...
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... fair idolatresses , fell To idols foul . Thammuz came next behind , Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day ; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple ...
... fair idolatresses , fell To idols foul . Thammuz came next behind , Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day ; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple ...
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