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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... light ' -a felicitous epithet ; and Danger is described with the boldness and distinctness of sculpture Danger , whose limbs of giant mould What mortal eye can fixed behold ? Who stalks his round , a hideous form , Howling amidst the ...
... light ' -a felicitous epithet ; and Danger is described with the boldness and distinctness of sculpture Danger , whose limbs of giant mould What mortal eye can fixed behold ? Who stalks his round , a hideous form , Howling amidst the ...
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... light Yields her pale empire to the mourner Night , By hunger roused he scours the groaning plain , Gaunt wolves and sullen tigers in his train ; Before them Death with shrieks directs their way , Fills the wild yell , and leads them to ...
... light Yields her pale empire to the mourner Night , By hunger roused he scours the groaning plain , Gaunt wolves and sullen tigers in his train ; Before them Death with shrieks directs their way , Fills the wild yell , and leads them to ...
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... light , as with a milky zone , Invest the orient . Now , amazed she views The empyreal waste , where happy spirits hold , Beyond this concave heaven , their calm abode ; And fields of radiance , whose unfading light Has travelled the ...
... light , as with a milky zone , Invest the orient . Now , amazed she views The empyreal waste , where happy spirits hold , Beyond this concave heaven , their calm abode ; And fields of radiance , whose unfading light Has travelled the ...
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... light advance ; And every image on its neighbour smiles . Awhile he stands , and with a father's joy Contemplates . Then with Promethean art Into its proper vehicle he breathes The fair conception ; which , embodied thus , And permanent ...
... light advance ; And every image on its neighbour smiles . Awhile he stands , and with a father's joy Contemplates . Then with Promethean art Into its proper vehicle he breathes The fair conception ; which , embodied thus , And permanent ...
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... light upon the controversy . Mr Wordsworth has condemned the imagery of Ossian as spurious . In nature everything is dis- tinct , yet nothing defined into absolute independent singleness . In Macpherson's work it is exactly the reverse ...
... light upon the controversy . Mr Wordsworth has condemned the imagery of Ossian as spurious . In nature everything is dis- tinct , yet nothing defined into absolute independent singleness . In Macpherson's work it is exactly the reverse ...
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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.