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" But o'er the twilight groves and dusky caves, Long-sounding aisles and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower, and darkens... "
The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical - Page 162
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Poems by Cowley, Waller, Butler, Denham, Dryden, and Pomfret, Issues 77-79

Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...and a dread repose: her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, shades ev'ry flow'r, and darkens ev'ry green, deepens the murmur of the falling floods, and...browner horror on the woods. 170 Yet here for ever, ever must I stay ; sad proof how well a lover can obey ! death, only death, can break the lasting chain...
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Poems

Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...and a dread repose: her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, shades ev'ry flow'r, and darkens ev'ry green, deepens the murmur of the falling floods, and...browner horror on the woods. 170 Yet here for ever, ever must I stay ; sad proof how well a lover can obey ! death, only death, can break the lasting chain...
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Poems by Cowley, Waller, Butler, Denham, Dryden, and Pomfret, Issues 77-79

Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...a dread repose : her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, shades ev'ry flow'r, and darkens ev'ry green, deepens the murmur of the falling floods, and breathes a browner horror on the woods. Yet here for ever, ever must I stay; sad proof how well a lover can obey ! death, only death, can break...
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Broome, Pope, Pitt, Thomson

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...throws A di-ath-like sile.nce, and a dread repose; Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, ShaoVs every flower and darkens every green, Deepens the murmur of the falling Hoods, And breathes a browner horrour on the woods. Yet here for ever, ever must I stay ; Sad proof...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 12

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...round her throws A death-like silence, aud a dread repose; Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower and darkens every green. Deepens the murmur of the foiling floods, And breathes a. browner horrour on the woods* Yet here, for ever, ever must 1 stay...
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The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays, Volume 2

Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 446 pages
...a dread repose ; Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades ev'ry flower, and darkens ev'ry green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods. POPE. Madam, As the incomparable authors of the Spectators did not think it beneath them to criticise...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections, Additions ...

Alexander Pope - 1812 - 220 pages
...a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades ev'ry flow'r, and darkens ev'ry green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And...browner horror on the woods. 170 Yet here for ever, ever must I stay; Sad proof how well a lover can obey ! Death, only death, can break the lasting chain ;...
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Anselmo; or, The day of trial, Volumes 3-4

Mary Hill (novelist.) - 1813 - 464 pages
...a dread repose ; Her gloomy presence saddens all the seem., Shades ev'ry flow'r, and darkens ev'ry green. Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods. POPE. JL HE interval of anxiety now passed by Eleanor, as to the reception she should meet with at...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler ...

Nathan Drake - English literature - 1814 - 404 pages
...a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades ev'ry flower, and darkens ev'ry green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror ou the woods.* Pope had now obtained a great and deserved reputation, but his efforts had been hitherto...
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A Classical Tour Through Italy, An. MDCCCII.

John Chetwode Eustace - Italy - 1815 - 532 pages
...round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens every scene, Shades every flower and darkens every green ; Deepens...the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror o'er the woods. While thus employed on the summit, we heard the bell tolling below for afternoon service....
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