Cyclopędia 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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... passed by ; what then is seen But his broad pinions swifter than the winds ? And all mankind , in contradiction strong , Rueful , aghast , cry out on his career . We waste , not use our time ; we breathe , not live ; Time wasted is ...
... passed by ; what then is seen But his broad pinions swifter than the winds ? And all mankind , in contradiction strong , Rueful , aghast , cry out on his career . We waste , not use our time ; we breathe , not live ; Time wasted is ...
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... passed or sojourned among scenes which he had often viewed in imagination . In November of the same year the poet was at Rome , and no doubt indulged the wish expressed in one of his letters , to see the fields where Virgil gathered his ...
... passed or sojourned among scenes which he had often viewed in imagination . In November of the same year the poet was at Rome , and no doubt indulged the wish expressed in one of his letters , to see the fields where Virgil gathered his ...
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... passed since I waited in your outward rooms , or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties , of which it is useless to complain , and have brought it at last to the verge of ...
... passed since I waited in your outward rooms , or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties , of which it is useless to complain , and have brought it at last to the verge of ...
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... passed with unwet feet through all our land . To the blown Baltic then , they say , The wild waves found another way , Where Orcas howls , his wolfish mountains rounding ; Till all the banded west at once ' gain rise , A wide wild storm ...
... passed with unwet feet through all our land . To the blown Baltic then , they say , The wild waves found another way , Where Orcas howls , his wolfish mountains rounding ; Till all the banded west at once ' gain rise , A wide wild storm ...
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... passed much time in truly virtuous deed ; And , in those elfins ' ears would oft deplore The times , when truth by popish rage did bleed , And tortuous death was true devotion's meed ; And simple faith in iron chains did mourn , That ...
... passed much time in truly virtuous deed ; And , in those elfins ' ears would oft deplore The times , when truth by popish rage did bleed , And tortuous death was true devotion's meed ; And simple faith in iron chains did mourn , That ...
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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.