Complete Poetical Works, Volume 3H. Milford, 1913 - 554 pages |
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... never consciously deviating from their readings without a note , and altering punctuation and spelling very rarely . There is no other authority for the two translations of Horace's Satires and Anti - Thelyphthora than the first edition ...
... never consciously deviating from their readings without a note , and altering punctuation and spelling very rarely . There is no other authority for the two translations of Horace's Satires and Anti - Thelyphthora than the first edition ...
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... never feel th ' alacrity and joy With which he shouts and carols , Vive le Roy , Fill'd with as much true merriment and glee , As if he heard his king say - Slave , be free . Thus happiness depends , as nature shows , Less on exterior ...
... never feel th ' alacrity and joy With which he shouts and carols , Vive le Roy , Fill'd with as much true merriment and glee , As if he heard his king say - Slave , be free . Thus happiness depends , as nature shows , Less on exterior ...
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... never feel . If human woes her soft attention claim , A tender sympathy pervades the frame , She pours a sensibility divine Along the nerve of ev'ry feeling line . But , if a deed not tamely to be borne Fire indignation and a sense of ...
... never feel . If human woes her soft attention claim , A tender sympathy pervades the frame , She pours a sensibility divine Along the nerve of ev'ry feeling line . But , if a deed not tamely to be borne Fire indignation and a sense of ...
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... never there ; Or , having whelp'd a prologue with great pains , Feels himself spent , and fumbles for his brains ; A prologue interdash'd with many a stroke- An art contriv'd to advertise a joke , So that the jest is clearly to be seen ...
... never there ; Or , having whelp'd a prologue with great pains , Feels himself spent , and fumbles for his brains ; A prologue interdash'd with many a stroke- An art contriv'd to advertise a joke , So that the jest is clearly to be seen ...
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... never peep beyond the thorny bound , Or oaken fence , that hems the paddoc round . In Eden , ere yet innocence of heart Had faded , poetry was not an art ; Language , above all teaching , or , if taught , Only by gratitude and glowing ...
... never peep beyond the thorny bound , Or oaken fence , that hems the paddoc round . In Eden , ere yet innocence of heart Had faded , poetry was not an art ; Language , above all teaching , or , if taught , Only by gratitude and glowing ...
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