The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century VerseDavid Nichol Smith Clarendon Press, 1971 - 727 pages |
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Page 175
... grave ! How silent did his old companions tread , By mid - night lamps , the mansions of the dead , Through breathing statues , then unheeded things , Through rowes of warriors , and through walks of kings ! What awe did the slow solemn ...
... grave ! How silent did his old companions tread , By mid - night lamps , the mansions of the dead , Through breathing statues , then unheeded things , Through rowes of warriors , and through walks of kings ! What awe did the slow solemn ...
Page 352
... Grave YOUR DRUID lies ! Ode Occasion'd by the Death of Mr. Thomson , 1749 Dirge in Cymbeline O fair FIDELE'S grassy Toinb Tooft Maids , and Village Hinds shall bring Each op'ning Sweet , of earliest Bloom , And rifle all the breathing ...
... Grave YOUR DRUID lies ! Ode Occasion'd by the Death of Mr. Thomson , 1749 Dirge in Cymbeline O fair FIDELE'S grassy Toinb Tooft Maids , and Village Hinds shall bring Each op'ning Sweet , of earliest Bloom , And rifle all the breathing ...
Page 697
... grave ! ' Thus saying , his arms round the lady he wound , While loudly she shriek'd in dismay ; Then sank with his prey through the wide - yawning ground : Nor ever again was Fair Imogine found , Or the spectre who bore her away . Not ...
... grave ! ' Thus saying , his arms round the lady he wound , While loudly she shriek'd in dismay ; Then sank with his prey through the wide - yawning ground : Nor ever again was Fair Imogine found , Or the spectre who bore her away . Not ...
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