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" We rest — a dream has power to poison sleep ; We rise — one wandering thought pollutes the day; We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep ; Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away... "
Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus - Page 134
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1888 - 317 pages
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The Literary Panorama and National Register

English literature - 1816 - 592 pages
...varying blast, To whose frail frame no second motion bring'* One mood or modulation like the last. We rest :— A dream has power to poison sleep ; We rise:— One wandering thought polluted the day ; We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep; Embrace fond woe,...
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...each varying blast, To whose frail frame no second motion brings One mood or modulation like the last We rest — A dream has power to poison sleep; We rise — One wandering thought pollutes the day We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep ; Kmbrace fond woe, or...
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Tait's Edinburgh magazine, Volume 24

1857 - 780 pages
...mine is lying under the hawthorn iu our old churchyard. Shelley knew a like feeling when he wrote — We rest — a dream has power to poison sleep ; We rise — one wandering thought pollutes the day ; We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep, Embrace fond woe,...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...For, be it joy or One mood or modulation like the sorrow, last. The path of its departure still is We rest — a dream has power to poison sleep: We rise — one wandering thought pollutes the day ; Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Naught may endure...
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The Headsman: Or, The Abbaye Des Vignerons. A Tale, Volume 3

James Fenimore Cooper - Americans - 1833 - 350 pages
...doubts of one who knew his happiness to be the fruit or the forfeiture of its veracity. CHAPTER X. We rest — a dream has power to poison sleep ; We rise — one wandering thought pollutes the day ; We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep ; Embrace fond woe,...
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The headsman; or, The Abbaye des vigerons, by the author of 'The ..., Volume 3

James Fenimore Cooper - 1833 - 354 pages
...doubts of one who knew his happiness to be the fruit or the forfeiture of its veracity. CHAPTER X. We rest — a dream has power to poison sleep ; We rise — one wandering thought pollutes the day ; We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep ; Embrace fond woe,...
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 18

Walter Scott - Novelists, English - 1835 - 452 pages
...we think, that the author possesses the same facility in expressing himself in verse as in prose. " We rest ; a dream has power to poison sleep. We rise...conceive, or reason ; laugh, or weep, Embrace fond wo, or cast our cares away ; It is the same ; for, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still...
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Periodical Criticism, Volume 2

Walter Scott - English literature - 1835 - 420 pages
...we think, that the author possesses the same facility in expressing himself in verse as in prose. " We rest ; a dream has power to poison sleep. "We rise...conceive, or reason ; laugh, or weep, Embrace fond wo, or cast our cares away ; It is the same ; for, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still...
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1838 - 634 pages
...or modulation like the last We rest — A dream has power to poison sleep ; We rise— One wandering thought pollutes the day: We feel, conceive or reason,...cast our cares away: It is the same ! — For, be il joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free: Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow...
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The Headsman; Or, The Abbaye Des Vignerons: A Tale, Volume 2

James Fenimore Cooper - American fiction - 1838 - 274 pages
...doubts of one who knew his happiness to be the fruit or the forfeiture of its veracity. CHAPTER XV. We rest — a dream has power to poison sleep ; We rise — one wandering thought pollutes the day ; We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep ; Embrace fond woe,...
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