Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Connected by a Critical and Biographical History ...Robert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1847 - English literature |
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... fair is the rose ! what a beautiful flower , The glory of April and May ! But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour , And they wither and die in a day . Yet the rose has one powerful virtue to boast , Above all the flowers of the ...
... fair is the rose ! what a beautiful flower , The glory of April and May ! But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour , And they wither and die in a day . Yet the rose has one powerful virtue to boast , Above all the flowers of the ...
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... fair - proportioned on her polished limbs , Veiled in a simple robe , their best attire , Beyond the pomp of dress ; for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament , But is , when unadorned , adorned the most . Thoughtless of ...
... fair - proportioned on her polished limbs , Veiled in a simple robe , their best attire , Beyond the pomp of dress ; for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament , But is , when unadorned , adorned the most . Thoughtless of ...
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... fair blazing , and the vestment warm : In vain his little children , peeping out Into the mingling storm , demand their sire With tears of artless innocence . Alas ! Nor wife nor children more shall he behold , Nor friends , nor sacred ...
... fair blazing , and the vestment warm : In vain his little children , peeping out Into the mingling storm , demand their sire With tears of artless innocence . Alas ! Nor wife nor children more shall he behold , Nor friends , nor sacred ...
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... fair undress , best dress ! it checks no vein , But every flowing limb in pleasure drowns , And heightens ease with grace . This done , right fain Sir porter sat him down , and turned to sleep again . Strait of these endless numbers ...
... fair undress , best dress ! it checks no vein , But every flowing limb in pleasure drowns , And heightens ease with grace . This done , right fain Sir porter sat him down , and turned to sleep again . Strait of these endless numbers ...
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... fair illusions ! artful phantoms , no ! My muse will not attempt your fairy land ; She has no colours that like you can glow ; To catch your vivid scenes too gross her hand . But sure it is , was ne'er a subtler band Than these same ...
... fair illusions ! artful phantoms , no ! My muse will not attempt your fairy land ; She has no colours that like you can glow ; To catch your vivid scenes too gross her hand . But sure it is , was ne'er a subtler band Than these same ...
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Page 339 - But soon I heard the dash of oars, I heard the Pilot's cheer; My head was turned perforce away, And I saw a boat appear.