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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... feel his error if unseen , And , feeling , fly to labour for his cure ; Not blundering , split on idleness for ease . We push time from us , and we wish him back ; Life we think long and short ; death seek and shun . Oh the dark days of ...
... feel his error if unseen , And , feeling , fly to labour for his cure ; Not blundering , split on idleness for ease . We push time from us , and we wish him back ; Life we think long and short ; death seek and shun . Oh the dark days of ...
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... feel their great abundance , and request Their humble friends to help them to be blest ; To see their treasure ... feeling ; our first love remains unaltered ; and Thomson is still the poet with whom some of our best and purest ...
... feel their great abundance , and request Their humble friends to help them to be blest ; To see their treasure ... feeling ; our first love remains unaltered ; and Thomson is still the poet with whom some of our best and purest ...
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... feels for all mankind . His sympathies are universal . His touching allusions to the condition of the poor and ... feel the latter to In strains high warbled to celestial harps , have been the born poet . ' The ardour and fulness ...
... feels for all mankind . His sympathies are universal . His touching allusions to the condition of the poor and ... feel the latter to In strains high warbled to celestial harps , have been the born poet . ' The ardour and fulness ...
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... feel- ing . ' This popularity seems still to be on the in- crease , though the want of human interest and of action in Collins's poetry prevent its being generally read . The Eclogues ' are free from the occasional obscurity and ...
... feel- ing . ' This popularity seems still to be on the in- crease , though the want of human interest and of action in Collins's poetry prevent its being generally read . The Eclogues ' are free from the occasional obscurity and ...
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... feel'st the strains , One holier name alone remains ; The perfect spell shall then avail , Hail , nymph , adored by Britain , hail ! ANTISTROPHE , Beyond the measure vast of thought , The works the wizard time has wrought ! The Gaul ...
... feel'st the strains , One holier name alone remains ; The perfect spell shall then avail , Hail , nymph , adored by Britain , hail ! ANTISTROPHE , Beyond the measure vast of thought , The works the wizard time has wrought ! The Gaul ...
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