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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... leave behind , Like a flag floating when the bark's ingulfed ; It floats a moment , and is seen no more . One Cæsar lives ; a thousand are forgot . How few beneath auspicious planets born ( Darlings of Providence ! fond Fate's elect ...
... leave behind , Like a flag floating when the bark's ingulfed ; It floats a moment , and is seen no more . One Cæsar lives ; a thousand are forgot . How few beneath auspicious planets born ( Darlings of Providence ! fond Fate's elect ...
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... leave Which men call life and fame . Mistaken minds ! This various misery , these air - fed dreams Tis reason's prime aspiring , greatly just ; ' Tis happiness supreme , to venture forth In quest of nobler worlds ; to try the deeps Of ...
... leave Which men call life and fame . Mistaken minds ! This various misery , these air - fed dreams Tis reason's prime aspiring , greatly just ; ' Tis happiness supreme , to venture forth In quest of nobler worlds ; to try the deeps Of ...
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... leaves Of aspen tall . The uncurling floods , diffused In glassy breadth , seem , through delusive lapse , Forgetful of their course . " Tis silence all , And pleasing expectation . Herds and flocks Drop the dry sprig , and , mute ...
... leaves Of aspen tall . The uncurling floods , diffused In glassy breadth , seem , through delusive lapse , Forgetful of their course . " Tis silence all , And pleasing expectation . Herds and flocks Drop the dry sprig , and , mute ...
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... leave his brooks and meads behind , And groves , and grottos where I lay , And vistas shooting beams of day : Wide and wider spreads the vale , As circles on a smooth canal : The mountains round , unhappy fate , Sooner or later , of all ...
... leave his brooks and meads behind , And groves , and grottos where I lay , And vistas shooting beams of day : Wide and wider spreads the vale , As circles on a smooth canal : The mountains round , unhappy fate , Sooner or later , of all ...
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... leave Pouing the birks on the Braes of Yarrow . B. Why does she weep , thy bonny bonny bride ! Why does she weep , thy winsome marrow ? And why dare ye nae mair weil be seen , Pouing the birks on the Braes of Yarrow ! A. Lang maun she ...
... leave Pouing the birks on the Braes of Yarrow . B. Why does she weep , thy bonny bonny bride ! Why does she weep , thy winsome marrow ? And why dare ye nae mair weil be seen , Pouing the birks on the Braes of Yarrow ! A. Lang maun she ...
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