Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces, Volume 2John Aikin |
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... dark the Sun to see it ; highest stars Too low to reach it ; Death , great Death alone , O'er stars and Sun triumphant , lands us there . Nor dreadful our transition ; though the mind , An artist at creating self - alarms , Rich in ...
... dark the Sun to see it ; highest stars Too low to reach it ; Death , great Death alone , O'er stars and Sun triumphant , lands us there . Nor dreadful our transition ; though the mind , An artist at creating self - alarms , Rich in ...
Page 577
... dark enough to draw Thy picture true ? The darkest are too fair . Beneath what baleful planet , in what hour Of desperation , by what fury's aid , In what infernal posture of the soul , All Hell invited , and all Hell in joy At such a ...
... dark enough to draw Thy picture true ? The darkest are too fair . Beneath what baleful planet , in what hour Of desperation , by what fury's aid , In what infernal posture of the soul , All Hell invited , and all Hell in joy At such a ...
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... dark Error's den , whose rankling slime First gave you form ! Hence ! lest the Muse should deign , ( Though loth on theme so mean to waste a rhyme , ) With vengeance to pursue your sacrilegious crime . But hail , ye mighty masters of ...
... dark Error's den , whose rankling slime First gave you form ! Hence ! lest the Muse should deign , ( Though loth on theme so mean to waste a rhyme , ) With vengeance to pursue your sacrilegious crime . But hail , ye mighty masters of ...
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