The English Poets: Addison to BlakeThomas Humphry Ward Macmillan, 1913 - English poetry |
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... beauty to the sun , and pleasure to the day . Thee , goddess , thee Britannia's isle adores : How has she oft exhausted all her stores , How oft in fields of death thy presence sought , Nor thinks the mighty prize too dearly bought ! On ...
... beauty to the sun , and pleasure to the day . Thee , goddess , thee Britannia's isle adores : How has she oft exhausted all her stores , How oft in fields of death thy presence sought , Nor thinks the mighty prize too dearly bought ! On ...
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... beauty of Walsh's verse , and certainly was alone in praising his very remarkable Defence of the Fair Sex , in which the young poet , in an age given up to selfish gallantry , recommended the honourable equality of the sexes and the ...
... beauty of Walsh's verse , and certainly was alone in praising his very remarkable Defence of the Fair Sex , in which the young poet , in an age given up to selfish gallantry , recommended the honourable equality of the sexes and the ...
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... Beauty's joined ? Could I their prevalence deny , I must at once be deaf and blind . Alas ! not hoping to subdue , I only to the fight aspired : To keep the beauteous foe in view Was all the glory I desired . But she , howe'er of ...
... Beauty's joined ? Could I their prevalence deny , I must at once be deaf and blind . Alas ! not hoping to subdue , I only to the fight aspired : To keep the beauteous foe in view Was all the glory I desired . But she , howe'er of ...
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... beauty bright ; When odours , which declined repelling day , Through temperate air uninterrupted stray ; When darkened groves their softest shadows wear , And falling waters we distinctly hear ; When through the gloom more venerable ...
... beauty bright ; When odours , which declined repelling day , Through temperate air uninterrupted stray ; When darkened groves their softest shadows wear , And falling waters we distinctly hear ; When through the gloom more venerable ...
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... beauty shone ; The outward form no help required : Each , breathing on her thrice , inspired That gentle , soft , engaging air , Which in old times adorn'd the fair : And said , ' Vanessa be the name By which thou shalt be known to fame ...
... beauty shone ; The outward form no help required : Each , breathing on her thrice , inspired That gentle , soft , engaging air , Which in old times adorn'd the fair : And said , ' Vanessa be the name By which thou shalt be known to fame ...
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Addison admiration ALLAN RAMSAY Ambrose Philips beauty beneath blest born breast breath Burns Castle of Indolence charm Chatterton critics dear death delight Dryden Dunciad e'er Eclogues English English poetry Epistle Ev'n ev'ry eyes fair fame fate feel fool frae genius GEORGE SAINTSBURY grace Gratius Faliscus grave Gray Grongar Hill hand happy hear heart heaven kings labour literary live Lord Lord Hervey mind moral muse nature ne'er never night numbers o'er once pain passion perhaps Pindaric pleasure poem poet poet's poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise pride prose rhyme rise round satire sense shade shine sing smile song soul spirit Spleen sweet Swift taste tear tell thee things THOMAS TICKELL Thomson thou thought thro toil trembling truth Twas verse virtue Whig wind wise write youth