The English Poets: Addison to BlakeThomas Humphry Ward Macmillan, 1913 - English poetry |
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... pains have known , May in my fatal stories read their own ; Those who have lived from all its torments free , May ... pain and sorrow past , After deluding hopes and dire despair , Death only gives us quiet at the last ; How strangely ...
... pains have known , May in my fatal stories read their own ; Those who have lived from all its torments free , May ... pain and sorrow past , After deluding hopes and dire despair , Death only gives us quiet at the last ; How strangely ...
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... grow , He scorned to endeavour To finish it so , But , bold , unconcerned At thoughts of the pain , He calmly returned To his cottage again . WILLIAM CONGREVE . [ WILLIAM CONGREVE was born in 1670. WILLIAM WALSH . 9 The Despairing Lover.
... grow , He scorned to endeavour To finish it so , But , bold , unconcerned At thoughts of the pain , He calmly returned To his cottage again . WILLIAM CONGREVE . [ WILLIAM CONGREVE was born in 1670. WILLIAM WALSH . 9 The Despairing Lover.
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... pain ; Once more in dying notes complain Of slighted vows , and cold disdain . TO A LADY : she refusing to continue a dispute with me , and leaving me in the argument . Spare , generous Victor , spare the slave , Who did unequal war ...
... pain ; Once more in dying notes complain Of slighted vows , and cold disdain . TO A LADY : she refusing to continue a dispute with me , and leaving me in the argument . Spare , generous Victor , spare the slave , Who did unequal war ...
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... pain , ' is still more loose and fragmentary in structure . On the other hand , her less ambitious studies have a singular perfection of form and picturesqueness of manner . She lights upon the right epithet and employs it with ...
... pain , ' is still more loose and fragmentary in structure . On the other hand , her less ambitious studies have a singular perfection of form and picturesqueness of manner . She lights upon the right epithet and employs it with ...
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... daunts the feeble brain , We faint beneath the aromatic pain , Till some offensive scent thy powers appease , And pleasure we resign for short and nauseous ease . VOL . III . IN ANSWER TO MR . POPE 32 THE ENGLISH POETS .
... daunts the feeble brain , We faint beneath the aromatic pain , Till some offensive scent thy powers appease , And pleasure we resign for short and nauseous ease . VOL . III . IN ANSWER TO MR . POPE 32 THE ENGLISH POETS .
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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