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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... seen , but boarded at our peril ; Here , on a single plank , thrown safe ashore , I hear the tumult of the distant throng , As that of seas remote , or dying storms ; And meditate on scenes more silent still ; Pursue my theme , and ...
... seen , but boarded at our peril ; Here , on a single plank , thrown safe ashore , I hear the tumult of the distant throng , As that of seas remote , or dying storms ; And meditate on scenes more silent still ; Pursue my theme , and ...
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... seen the gradual improve- this want of keeping between his style and his sub- ment of his taste , as well as imagination . So far as jects , adapting one to the other with inimitable ease , the art of the poet is concerned , the last ...
... seen the gradual improve- this want of keeping between his style and his sub- ment of his taste , as well as imagination . So far as jects , adapting one to the other with inimitable ease , the art of the poet is concerned , the last ...
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... pleasant green , Where never yet was creeping creature seen . Meantime unnumbered 19 POETS . JAMES THOMSON . ENGLISH LITERATURE . The Caravan of Mecca, Extracts from Retaliation, The Siberian Exile, TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT,
... pleasant green , Where never yet was creeping creature seen . Meantime unnumbered 19 POETS . JAMES THOMSON . ENGLISH LITERATURE . The Caravan of Mecca, Extracts from Retaliation, The Siberian Exile, TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT,
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... seen . Meantime unnumbered glittering streamlets played , And hurled everywhere their waters sheen ; That , as they bickered through the sunny glade , Though restless still themselves , a lulling murmur made . Joined to the prattle of ...
... seen . Meantime unnumbered glittering streamlets played , And hurled everywhere their waters sheen ; That , as they bickered through the sunny glade , Though restless still themselves , a lulling murmur made . Joined to the prattle of ...
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... seen , that lifts the low , And level lays the lofty brow , Has seen this broken pile complete , Big with the vanity of state ; But transient is the smile of fate ! A little rule , a little sway , A sunbeam in a winter's day , Is all ...
... seen , that lifts the low , And level lays the lofty brow , Has seen this broken pile complete , Big with the vanity of state ; But transient is the smile of fate ! A little rule , a little sway , A sunbeam in a winter's day , Is all ...
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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.