Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson to Beattie with Biographical and Critical NoticesThomas Wardle, 1846 - 807 pages |
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... light : If I , her vulgar stone , for either look , Out of myself it must be strook . Yet I must on . What sound is't strikes mine ear ? Sure I Fame's trumpet hear : It sounds like the last trumpet ; for it can Raise up the buried man ...
... light : If I , her vulgar stone , for either look , Out of myself it must be strook . Yet I must on . What sound is't strikes mine ear ? Sure I Fame's trumpet hear : It sounds like the last trumpet ; for it can Raise up the buried man ...
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... light ! But then , alas ! to thee alone , One of old Gideon's miracles was shown ; For every tree and every herb around With pearly dew was crown'd , And upon all the quicken'd ground The fruitful seed of Heaven did brocding lie , And ...
... light ! But then , alas ! to thee alone , One of old Gideon's miracles was shown ; For every tree and every herb around With pearly dew was crown'd , And upon all the quicken'd ground The fruitful seed of Heaven did brocding lie , And ...
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... light thoughts their empty career run , Thy race is finish'd when begun ; Let a post - angel start with thee , And thou the goal of Earth shalt reach as soon as he . Thou in the Moon's bright chariot , proud and gay , Dost thy bright ...
... light thoughts their empty career run , Thy race is finish'd when begun ; Let a post - angel start with thee , And thou the goal of Earth shalt reach as soon as he . Thou in the Moon's bright chariot , proud and gay , Dost thy bright ...
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... light To the misled and lonely traveller ? This is the place , as well as I may guess , Whence even now the tumult of loud mirth Was rife , and perfect in my listening ear ; 140 Yet nought but single darkness do I find . What this might ...
... light To the misled and lonely traveller ? This is the place , as well as I may guess , Whence even now the tumult of loud mirth Was rife , and perfect in my listening ear ; 140 Yet nought but single darkness do I find . What this might ...
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... light and noise ( Not being in danger , as I trust she is not , ) Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts , And put them into misbecoming plight . Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light , though Sun ...
... light and noise ( Not being in danger , as I trust she is not , ) Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts , And put them into misbecoming plight . Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light , though Sun ...
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