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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... round , To close the face of things . A fresher gale Begins to wave the wood , and stir the stream , Sweeping with shadowy gust the fields of corn : While the quail clamours for his running mate . Wide o'er the thistly lawn , as swells ...
... round , To close the face of things . A fresher gale Begins to wave the wood , and stir the stream , Sweeping with shadowy gust the fields of corn : While the quail clamours for his running mate . Wide o'er the thistly lawn , as swells ...
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... round him night resistless closes fast , And every tempest howling o'er his head , Renders the savage wilderness more wild . Then throng the busy shapes into his mind , Of covered pits , unfathomably deep , A dire descent ! beyond the ...
... round him night resistless closes fast , And every tempest howling o'er his head , Renders the savage wilderness more wild . Then throng the busy shapes into his mind , Of covered pits , unfathomably deep , A dire descent ! beyond the ...
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... round , On nature write with every beam His praise . The thunder rolls : be hushed the prostrate world , While cloud to cloud returns the solemn hymn . Bleat out afresh ye hills ; ye mossy rocks Retain the sound ; the broad responsive ...
... round , On nature write with every beam His praise . The thunder rolls : be hushed the prostrate world , While cloud to cloud returns the solemn hymn . Bleat out afresh ye hills ; ye mossy rocks Retain the sound ; the broad responsive ...
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... round a summer sky : There eke the soft delights , that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast , And the calm pleasures , always hovered nigh ; But whate'er smacked of noyance or unrest , Was far , far off expelled from ...
... round a summer sky : There eke the soft delights , that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast , And the calm pleasures , always hovered nigh ; But whate'er smacked of noyance or unrest , Was far , far off expelled from ...
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... round , As thick as idle motes in sunny ray , Not one eftsoons in view was to be found , But every man strolled off his own glad way , Wide o'er this ample court's blank area , With all the lodges that thereto pertained ; No living ...
... round , As thick as idle motes in sunny ray , Not one eftsoons in view was to be found , But every man strolled off his own glad way , Wide o'er this ample court's blank area , With all the lodges that thereto pertained ; No living ...
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