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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... shade ! The world's a stately bark , on dangerous seas , With pleasure 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 ...
... shade ! The world's a stately bark , on dangerous seas , With pleasure 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 ...
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... shade , that I with friendly blame , Slight note thy error ; not to wrong thy worth , Or shade thy memory ( far from my soul Be that base aim ) , but haply to deter , From flattering the gross vulgar , future pens Powerful like thine in ...
... shade , that I with friendly blame , Slight note thy error ; not to wrong thy worth , Or shade thy memory ( far from my soul Be that base aim ) , but haply to deter , From flattering the gross vulgar , future pens Powerful like thine in ...
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... shade , the country round Imbrown ; a crowded umbrage dusk and dun , Of every hue , from wan declining green To ... shades , Robbed of their tuneful souls , now shivering sit On the dead tree , a dull despondent flock : With not a ...
... shade , the country round Imbrown ; a crowded umbrage dusk and dun , Of every hue , from wan declining green To ... shades , Robbed of their tuneful souls , now shivering sit On the dead tree , a dull despondent flock : With not a ...
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... Shade unperceived , so softening into shade ; And all so forming a harmonious whole , That , as they still succeed , they ravish still . But wandering oft , with rude unconscious gaze , Man marks not thee , marks not the mighty hand ...
... Shade unperceived , so softening into shade ; And all so forming a harmonious whole , That , as they still succeed , they ravish still . But wandering oft , with rude unconscious gaze , Man marks not thee , marks not the mighty hand ...
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... shades , and teach the night His praise . Ye chief , for whom the whole creation smiles ; At once the head , the heart ... shade , And find a fane in every sacred grove , There let the shepherd's lute , the virgin's lay , The prompting ...
... shades , and teach the night His praise . Ye chief , for whom the whole creation smiles ; At once the head , the heart ... shade , And find a fane in every sacred grove , There let the shepherd's lute , the virgin's lay , The prompting ...
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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.