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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... Heaven , 500 W. BECKFORD , 478 A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea , 501 Prayer , 478 My Nanie O , 501 • WALTER PATERSON , 478 The Poet's Bridal - Day Song , 501 Sonnet Written on the Burial - ground of his Ances- WILLIAM TENNANT , 501 . tors ...
... Heaven , 500 W. BECKFORD , 478 A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea , 501 Prayer , 478 My Nanie O , 501 • WALTER PATERSON , 478 The Poet's Bridal - Day Song , 501 Sonnet Written on the Burial - ground of his Ances- WILLIAM TENNANT , 501 . tors ...
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... heaven's loom Wrought through varieties of shape and shade , In ample folds of drapery divine , Thy flowing mantle form , and , heaven throughout , Voluminously pour thy pompous train : Thy gloomy grandeurs - Nature's most august ...
... heaven's loom Wrought through varieties of shape and shade , In ample folds of drapery divine , Thy flowing mantle form , and , heaven throughout , Voluminously pour thy pompous train : Thy gloomy grandeurs - Nature's most august ...
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... heaven's stranger ! I wake , emerging from a sea of dreams With antic shapes , wild natives of the brain ! From wave to wave of fancied misery At random drove , her helm of reason lost . Though now restored , ' tis only change of pain ...
... heaven's stranger ! I wake , emerging from a sea of dreams With antic shapes , wild natives of the brain ! From wave to wave of fancied misery At random drove , her helm of reason lost . Though now restored , ' tis only change of pain ...
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... ( heaven's stranger ! ) sent Where they see mountains , he but atoms sees . On his important embassy to man . FROM 1727 CYCLOPEDIA OF More we perceive by dint of. Part with it as with life , reluctant ; big With holy hope of nobler time to ...
... ( heaven's stranger ! ) sent Where they see mountains , he but atoms sees . On his important embassy to man . FROM 1727 CYCLOPEDIA OF More we perceive by dint of. Part with it as with life , reluctant ; big With holy hope of nobler time to ...
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... heaven our guide , The unerring Hand that led us safe through time : That planted in the soul this powerful hope , This infinite ambition of new life , And endless joys , still rising , ever new . These Congreve tastes , safe on the ...
... heaven our guide , The unerring Hand that led us safe through time : That planted in the soul this powerful hope , This infinite ambition of new life , And endless joys , still rising , ever new . These Congreve tastes , safe on the ...
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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.