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... 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 soul in their magic domain ; And never should poet , so gifted and rare , Pollute ...
... 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 soul in their magic domain ; And never should poet , so gifted and rare , Pollute ...
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... never once thought which was head or was feet , And slid through the hall , and fell plump in the street . So great was the panic they struck with their fright , That of all who had come to be feasted that night , Not one ventur'd up ...
... never once thought which was head or was feet , And slid through the hall , and fell plump in the street . So great was the panic they struck with their fright , That of all who had come to be feasted that night , Not one ventur'd up ...
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... never been known , The commoners claimed that place as their own . Yet if the kind God had been ne'er so inclined To break an old rule , yet he well knew his mind , Who of such preferment would only make sport , And laugh'd at all ...
... never been known , The commoners claimed that place as their own . Yet if the kind God had been ne'er so inclined To break an old rule , yet he well knew his mind , Who of such preferment would only make sport , And laugh'd at all ...
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... to keep the beaten track , and set a proper example to neither . By these appeals , however , the public ear has been excited to expect something better ; and perhaps there never was a more favourable time than the present 34.
... to keep the beaten track , and set a proper example to neither . By these appeals , however , the public ear has been excited to expect something better ; and perhaps there never was a more favourable time than the present 34.
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With Notes, and Other Pieces in Verse Leigh Hunt. there never was a more favourable time than the present for an attempt to bring back the real harmonies of the English heroic , and to restore to it half the true principle of its music ...
With Notes, and Other Pieces in Verse Leigh Hunt. there never was a more favourable time than the present for an attempt to bring back the real harmonies of the English heroic , and to restore to it half the true principle of its music ...
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