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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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... sight , Threw round him a cloud that was purple and white , The same that of old us'd to wrap his own shoulders , When coming from heaven , he'd spare the beholders : — The bard , like a second Æneas , went home in't , And lives ...
... sight , Threw round him a cloud that was purple and white , The same that of old us'd to wrap his own shoulders , When coming from heaven , he'd spare the beholders : — The bard , like a second Æneas , went home in't , And lives ...
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... sight and that music might not be sustain'd But by those who a glory like Dryden's had gain'd ; ( 22 ) And even the four who had graciousness found , After gazing awhile , bow'd them down to the ground . What then could remain for that ...
... sight and that music might not be sustain'd But by those who a glory like Dryden's had gain'd ; ( 22 ) And even the four who had graciousness found , After gazing awhile , bow'd them down to the ground . What then could remain for that ...
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... sight , Eye the blue vault - and bless the useful light . * Dictionnaire Philosophique , Art . Pope . - The reader will al- low me to deprecate any application of these remarks on ver- sification to the Feast of the Poets . The ...
... sight , Eye the blue vault - and bless the useful light . * Dictionnaire Philosophique , Art . Pope . - The reader will al- low me to deprecate any application of these remarks on ver- sification to the Feast of the Poets . The ...
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... sight of danger , and runs into any and every extreme . The persons of whom we have been speaking have been always in ex- tremes , and perhaps the good they are destined to perform in their generation , is to afford a striking lesson of ...
... sight of danger , and runs into any and every extreme . The persons of whom we have been speaking have been always in ex- tremes , and perhaps the good they are destined to perform in their generation , is to afford a striking lesson of ...
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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