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Beautiful Sublime: The Making of ‘Paradise Lost,’ 1701-1734 - Page 95
by Leslie Moore - 1990 - 252 pages
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The Fireside Encyclopaedia of Poetry: Comprising the Best Poems of the Most ...

Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...does sleep ; When a sedate content the spirit feels, And no fierce light disturbs, whilst it reveals ; ertain the light, And sleep, as undisturb'd as death, the night. My house composedness charm'd, Finding the elements of rage disarm'd, O'er all below a solemn quiet grown, Joys...
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Exemplary Women: A Record of Feminine Virtues and Achievements

William Henry Davenport Adams - Motherhood - 1882 - 420 pages
...repose ; . . . When a sedate content the spirit feels, And no fierce light disturbs while it reveals, But silent musings urge the mind to seek Something too high for syllables to speak. . . . In such a night let me abroad remain, Till morning breaks and all's composed again ; Our cares,...
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English Literature in the Eighteenth Century

Thomas Sergeant Perry - Literary Criticism - 1883 - 500 pages
...doth sleep; AVhen a sedate content the spirit feels, And no fierce light disturbs, whilst it reveals ; But silent musings urge the mind to seek Something...high for syllables to speak ; Till the free soul to a composedness charmed, Finding the elements of rage disarmed, O'er all below a solemn quiet grown, Joys...
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English Literature in the Eighteenth Century

Thomas Sergeant Perry - Literary Criticism - 1883 - 490 pages
...doth sleep; When a sedate content the spirit feels, And no tierce light disturbs, whilst it reveals; But silent musings urge the mind to seek Something...high for syllables to speak; Till the free soul to a composedness charmed, Finding the elements of rage disarmed, O'er all below a solemn quiet grown, Joys...
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Good Queen Anne: Or, Men and Manners, Life and Letters in England ..., Volume 2

William Henry Davenport Adams - English literature - 1886 - 396 pages
...doth sleep ; When a sedate content the spirit feels, And no fierce light disturbs, whilst it reveals ; But silent musings urge the mind to seek Something...high for syllables to speak ; Till the free soul to a composedness charmed, Finding the elements of rage disarmed, O'er all below a solemn quiet grown, Joys...
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Women's Voices: An Anthology of the Most Characteristic Poems by English ...

Elizabeth Amelia Sharp - English poetry - 1887 - 450 pages
...doth sleep ; When a sedate content the spirit feels, And no fierce light disturbs, whilst it reveals ; But silent musings urge the mind to seek Something...high for syllables to speak ; Till the free soul to a composedness charmed, Finding the elements of rage disarmed, O'er all below a solemn quiet grown, Joys...
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The Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopædia of Universal ..., Volume 3

Ainsworth Rand Spofford - Literature - 1888 - 420 pages
...does sleep ; When a sedate content the spirit feels, And no fierce light disturbs, whilst it reveals ; But silent musings urge the mind to seek Something...high for syllables to speak ; Till the free soul to a composedness charmed, Finding the elements of rage disarmed, O'er all below a solemn quiet grown, Joys...
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The Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopædia of Universal Authorship ...

Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 452 pages
...dues sleep ; When a sedate content the spirit feels, And no fierce light disturbs, whilst it reveals ; But silent musings urge the mind to seek Something...high for syllables to speak ; Till the free soul to a composednees charmed, Finding the elements of rage disarmed, O'er all below a solemn quiet grown, Joys...
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The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1895 - 656 pages
...doth sleep ; When a sedate content the spirit feels, And no fierce light disturbs, whilst it reveals ; But silent musings urge the mind to seek Something...high for syllables to speak ; Till the free soul to a composedness charmed, Finding the elements of rage disarmed, O'er all below a solemn quiet grown, Joys...
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British Anthologies, Volume 8

Edward Arber - English poetry - 1899 - 354 pages
...does sleep ; When a sedate content the spirit feels, And no fierce light disturbs, whilst it reveals ; But silent musings urge the mind to seek Something...syllables to speak; Till the free Soul, to a compos'dness charmed, Finding the elements of rage disarmed, O'er all below a solemn quiet grown, Joys in th' inferior...
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