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... plain in one of the best - known of passages : She comes ! she comes ! the sable Throne behold Of Night primæval and of Chaos old ! Before her , Fancy's gilded clouds decay , And all its varying Rain - bows die away . Wit shoots in vain ...
... plain in one of the best - known of passages : She comes ! she comes ! the sable Throne behold Of Night primæval and of Chaos old ! Before her , Fancy's gilded clouds decay , And all its varying Rain - bows die away . Wit shoots in vain ...
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... plain , in the light of such an account , why we should find ourselves describing as ' mature ' the sensibility exhibited by verse in which wit is an element , and also why , in such verse , a completely serious poetic effect should be ...
... plain , in the light of such an account , why we should find ourselves describing as ' mature ' the sensibility exhibited by verse in which wit is an element , and also why , in such verse , a completely serious poetic effect should be ...
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... plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain ; And the brown bright nightingale amorous Is half assuaged for Itylus , For the Thracian ships and the foreign faces , The tongueless vigil , and all the ...
... plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain ; And the brown bright nightingale amorous Is half assuaged for Itylus , For the Thracian ships and the foreign faces , The tongueless vigil , and all the ...
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