Poems, Volume 2Edward Moxon, 1842 - 231 pages |
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... nature brings not back the Mastodon , Nor we those times ; and why should any man Remodel models rather than the life ? And these twelve books of mine ( to speak the truth ) Were faint Homeric echoes , nothing worth , Mere chaff and ...
... nature brings not back the Mastodon , Nor we those times ; and why should any man Remodel models rather than the life ? And these twelve books of mine ( to speak the truth ) Were faint Homeric echoes , nothing worth , Mere chaff and ...
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... nature and thy name , Not rendering true answer , as beseem'd Thy fealty , nor like a noble knight : For surer sign had follow'd , either hand , Or voice , or else a motion of the meer . This is a shameful thing for men to lie . Yet now ...
... nature and thy name , Not rendering true answer , as beseem'd Thy fealty , nor like a noble knight : For surer sign had follow'd , either hand , Or voice , or else a motion of the meer . This is a shameful thing for men to lie . Yet now ...
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... nature never kind ! Like men , like manners : like breeds like , they say . Kind nature is the best : those manners next That fit us like a nature second - hand ; Which are indeed the manners of the great . VOL . II . E John . But I had ...
... nature never kind ! Like men , like manners : like breeds like , they say . Kind nature is the best : those manners next That fit us like a nature second - hand ; Which are indeed the manners of the great . VOL . II . E John . But I had ...
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... three times worth them all ; ΧΙΧ . " For those and theirs , by Nature's law , Have faded long ago ; But in these latter springs I saw Your own Olivia blow , XX . " From when she gamboll'd on the greens 89 THE TALKING OAK . 68.
... three times worth them all ; ΧΙΧ . " For those and theirs , by Nature's law , Have faded long ago ; But in these latter springs I saw Your own Olivia blow , XX . " From when she gamboll'd on the greens 89 THE TALKING OAK . 68.
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... nature will have weight to drag thee down . He will hold thee , when his passion shall have spent its novel force , Something better than his dog , a little dearer than his horse . What is this ? his eyes are heavy : think not they are ...
... nature will have weight to drag thee down . He will hold thee , when his passion shall have spent its novel force , Something better than his dog , a little dearer than his horse . What is this ? his eyes are heavy : think not they are ...
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