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Old favourites from the elder poets, with a few newer friends, a selection ... - Page 167
by Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 393 pages
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Poetry Explained for the Use of Young People

Richard Lovell Edgeworth - English poetry - 1802 - 152 pages
...lie buried an.d unseen, like gems or jewels in the ocean, .or like flowers in a forest. 2L . xV. " Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast,...Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The lives of Hampden, Milton, and Cromwell are to be met with in every history of England. In Butler's...
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Swiftiana ...

Charles Henry Wilson - Authors, Irish - 1804 - 284 pages
...second paper might have possibly furnished a hint to Mr. Gray for this !fine verse in his Elegy : ,. . " Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast,...Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood." The passage in the Tatler is as follows : " I soon observed, for it was easy to discover, the seeds and...
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Swiftiana ...

Charles Henry Wilson - Authors, Irish - 1804 - 286 pages
...second paper might have possibly furnished a hint to Mr. Gray for this fine verse in his Elegy : * Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast,...Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood." The passage in the Tatler is as follows : " I soon observed, for it was easy to discover, the seeds and...
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The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...inglorious Milton here may rest , Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. *Th' applause of list'ning senates to command , The threats of pain and ruin...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes , Their lot forbade: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd ? Forbade...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 6

1809 - 402 pages
...; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest : Some Cromwell guiltless of his country'* blood. 1'lf applause of listening senates to command, The threats...plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation s eyes, Their lot forbade: nor eircumscrih'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd,...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 14

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 628 pages
...withstood ; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbad : por circumscrib'd alone The;r growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Forbad...
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A criticism on the Elegy written in a country church yard. Being a ...

John Young - 1810 - 266 pages
...Milton here may rest ; Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. XVI. Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, XVII. Their lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined:...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 15

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 682 pages
...inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbad: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Forbad...
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A Criticism of the Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

John Young - Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 - 1810 - 432 pages
...Milton here may rest ; Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. XVI. Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, XVII. Their lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined:...
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Beauties of Poetry: Consisting of Elegant Selections from the Works of Pope ...

English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest ; Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. TIi' applause of listening senates to command, The threats...smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed aione Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined : Forbade...
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