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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... nature , with what ex- quisite taste and melody does he characterise the changes and varied appearances of creation- Look nature through , ' tis revolution all ; All change , no death ; day follows night , and night The dying day ...
... nature , with what ex- quisite taste and melody does he characterise the changes and varied appearances of creation- Look nature through , ' tis revolution all ; All change , no death ; day follows night , and night The dying day ...
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... nature Not on those terms was time ( 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 ...
... nature Not on those terms was time ( 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 ...
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... nature and himself Is thoughtless , thankless , inconsistent man ! Like children babbling nonsense in their sports , We censure Nature for a span too short ; That span too short we tax as tedious too ; Torture invention , all expedients ...
... nature and himself Is thoughtless , thankless , inconsistent man ! Like children babbling nonsense in their sports , We censure Nature for a span too short ; That span too short we tax as tedious too ; Torture invention , all expedients ...
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... nature which , though unacknowledged production of Thomson , indolent as he was , he had surveyed under every first published in 1729. We have no doubt of the aspect , till he had become familiar with all . Among genuineness of this ...
... nature which , though unacknowledged production of Thomson , indolent as he was , he had surveyed under every first published in 1729. We have no doubt of the aspect , till he had become familiar with all . Among genuineness of this ...
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... nature nought disdains : thoughtful to feed Her lowest sons , and clothe the coming year , From field to field the feathered seeds she wings . His folded flock secure , the shepherd home Hies merry - hearted ; and by turns relieves The ...
... nature nought disdains : thoughtful to feed Her lowest sons , and clothe the coming year , From field to field the feathered seeds she wings . His folded flock secure , the shepherd home Hies merry - hearted ; and by turns relieves 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.