Cyclopaedia of English Literature: Sixth period from 1727-1780. Poets ; Scottish poets ; tragic dramatists ; Comic dramatists ; Periodical essayists ; Novelists ; Historians ; Metaphysical writers ; Writers in divinity ; Miscellaneous writersRobert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1847 - Authors, English |
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... bright ; Mortality's too weak to bear them long . The conclusion of ' The Grave ' has been pronounced to be inferior to the earlier portions of the poem ; yet the following passage has a dignity , pathos , and devotional rapture , equal ...
... bright ; Mortality's too weak to bear them long . The conclusion of ' The Grave ' has been pronounced to be inferior to the earlier portions of the poem ; yet the following passage has a dignity , pathos , and devotional rapture , equal ...
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... bright was the sun , How lovely and joyful the course that he run , Though he rose in a mist when his race he begun , And there followed some droppings of rain ! But now the fair traveller's come to the west , Still how sweet a perfume ...
... bright was the sun , How lovely and joyful the course that he run , Though he rose in a mist when his race he begun , And there followed some droppings of rain ! But now the fair traveller's come to the west , Still how sweet a perfume ...
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... bright , Unfolding fair the last autumnal day . And now the mounting sun dispels the fog ; The rigid hoar - frost melts before his beam ; And hung on every spray , on every blade Of grass , the myriad dew - drops twinkle round ...
... bright , Unfolding fair the last autumnal day . And now the mounting sun dispels the fog ; The rigid hoar - frost melts before his beam ; And hung on every spray , on every blade Of grass , the myriad dew - drops twinkle round ...
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... bright gleam Of setting life shone on her evening hours : Not less enraptured than the happy pair ; Who flourished long in tender bliss , and reared A numerous offspring , lovely like themselves , And good , the grace of all the country ...
... bright gleam Of setting life shone on her evening hours : Not less enraptured than the happy pair ; Who flourished long in tender bliss , and reared A numerous offspring , lovely like themselves , And good , the grace of all the country ...
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... bright ; you heard the groans Of agonising ships , from shore to shore ; Heard , nightly plunged amid the sullen waves , The frequent corse ; while on each other fixed In sad presage , the blank assistants seemed Silent to ask whom Fate ...
... bright ; you heard the groans Of agonising ships , from shore to shore ; Heard , nightly plunged amid the sullen waves , The frequent corse ; while on each other fixed In sad presage , the blank assistants seemed Silent to ask whom Fate ...
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