Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson to BeattieT. Wardle, 1840 - 807 pages |
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... spirits waste . Hope ! Fortune's cheating lottery ! Where for one prize an hundred blanks there be ; Fond archer , Hope ! who tak'st thy aim so far , That still or short or wide thine arrows are ! Thin , empty cloud , which th ' eye ...
... spirits waste . Hope ! Fortune's cheating lottery ! Where for one prize an hundred blanks there be ; Fond archer , Hope ! who tak'st thy aim so far , That still or short or wide thine arrows are ! Thin , empty cloud , which th ' eye ...
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... SPIRIT descends or enters . BEFORE the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion is , where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live inspher'd In regions mild of calm and serene air , Above the smoke and stir of this dim ...
... SPIRIT descends or enters . BEFORE the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion is , where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live inspher'd In regions mild of calm and serene air , Above the smoke and stir of this dim ...
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... spirits Prompt me ; and they perhaps are not far off . SONG . 220 SWEET Echo , sweetest nymph , that liv'st unseen Within thy aery shell , By slow Meander's margent green , And in the violet - embroider'd vale , Where the lovelorn ...
... spirits Prompt me ; and they perhaps are not far off . SONG . 220 SWEET Echo , sweetest nymph , that liv'st unseen Within thy aery shell , By slow Meander's margent green , And in the violet - embroider'd vale , Where the lovelorn ...
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... spirits To such a flame of sacred vehemence , That dumb things would be mov'd to sympathize , And the brute Earth would lend her nerves , and shake , Till all thy magic structures , rear'd so high , Were shatter'd into heaps o'er thy ...
... spirits To such a flame of sacred vehemence , That dumb things would be mov'd to sympathize , And the brute Earth would lend her nerves , and shake , Till all thy magic structures , rear'd so high , Were shatter'd into heaps o'er thy ...
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... Spirit , with the two Brothers , and the Lady . Spir . Back , shepherds , back ; enough your play , Or if Virtue feeble were , This second Song presents them to their Father and The dances [ being ] ended , the Spirit epiloguizes ...
... Spirit , with the two Brothers , and the Lady . Spir . Back , shepherds , back ; enough your play , Or if Virtue feeble were , This second Song presents them to their Father and The dances [ being ] ended , the Spirit epiloguizes ...
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Abra angels arms behold blest blood breast breath bright call'd charms Cloacina clouds courser crown'd Dagon death delight Derry divine dread drest Earth ev'n eyes fair fame fate fear fire fix'd flame flies forc'd form'd Gaul glory grace grief hand happy hast hath head heart Heaven Hell hills honor hope join'd king labor light live lord lov'd Lubberkin lyre maid mighty mind Muse ne'er never night numbers Nut-brown Maid nymph o'er pain passion peace plain pleas'd pleasure praise pride proud race rage rais'd reign rise round Satan seem'd shade shine sight sing song soon sorrow soul spirits Spleen stood stream swain sweet tears tempests Thalestris Thebes thee Theseus thine things thou thought throne toil trembling turn'd Twas vex'd Virg virtue voice winds wings wise woods youth