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... Show me a sight That can give a divinity sounder delight , Or that earth should more prize from its core to the poles , Than the self - improved morals of elegant souls . Repentant I speak it - though when I was wild 21.
... Show me a sight That can give a divinity sounder delight , Or that earth should more prize from its core to the poles , Than the self - improved morals of elegant souls . Repentant I speak it - though when I was wild 21.
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... delight beyond measure , To find how you've mended your notions of pleasure ; For never was poet , whose fanciful hours Could bask in a richer abstraction of bowers , With sounds and with spirits , of charm to detain The wonder - eyed ...
... delight beyond measure , To find how you've mended your notions of pleasure ; For never was poet , whose fanciful hours Could bask in a richer abstraction of bowers , With sounds and with spirits , of charm to detain The wonder - eyed ...
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... the Bear was his inn ; and the comet , they say , Was his tandem in waiting to fetch him away . The others then parted , all highly delighted : And so shall I be , when you find me invited . NOTES ON THE FEAST OF THE POETS . ( 1 29.
... the Bear was his inn ; and the comet , they say , Was his tandem in waiting to fetch him away . The others then parted , all highly delighted : And so shall I be , when you find me invited . NOTES ON THE FEAST OF THE POETS . ( 1 29.
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... delighted to make free ; a con- queror , who could stop short of the love of con- quest , and sheath his sword the moment it had done enough - a sage , in short , who , during the greatest part of a reign in which he had practised every ...
... delighted to make free ; a con- queror , who could stop short of the love of con- quest , and sheath his sword the moment it had done enough - a sage , in short , who , during the greatest part of a reign in which he had practised every ...
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... delight to say more , if he had not confined those chief talents of his to the fireside . Mr. Coleridge , I believe , helped to give a new stimulus to the literary ambition of his school - fellows . We cannot boast of many great names ...
... delight to say more , if he had not confined those chief talents of his to the fireside . Mr. Coleridge , I believe , helped to give a new stimulus to the literary ambition of his school - fellows . We cannot boast of many great names ...
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Abydos admiration affected Apollo appears bard beautiful better bow'd bright called character Coleridge court court of aldermen cried criticism delight Dryden elegant Eloisa to Abelard ev'ry eyes Fairfax fancy faults Feast feeling flow'r forget friends genius Giaour give graceful harmony Hayley heart idle imitation Italian Jump-up-and-kiss-me Juvenal keep king Laureat least less lines look look'd Lord Byron Lyrical Ballads mind Montepulciano Muse narch never o'er original passion perhaps persons piece Pindar poem poet Poet Laureat poetical poetry politics poor Pope praise prince PYRRHA reader respect rhyme ribaldry round satire Scott seem'd seems sense Shakspeare simplicity singular Sirmio smiles society song soul Southey sparkling speak species spect Spenser spirit style Tasso taste thee thing thou thought tion true turn turn'd twas only Bob verses versification vex'd vulgar Walter Scott wine words Wordsworth writings written