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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... thing like man ; That , knowing well the slackness of his arm , Trusts only in the well - invented knife ? In our ... things which were : There lie interred the more illustrious dead . The wind is up : hark ! how it howls ! methinks ...
... thing like man ; That , knowing well the slackness of his arm , Trusts only in the well - invented knife ? In our ... things which were : There lie interred the more illustrious dead . The wind is up : hark ! how it howls ! methinks ...
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... things , to load his picture with supernume- have to the polished satire of Pope . When upwards rary horrors , and conduct his personages to their of fifty , Young entered the church , wrote a pane - sulphureous or ambrosial seats ...
... things , to load his picture with supernume- have to the polished satire of Pope . When upwards rary horrors , and conduct his personages to their of fifty , Young entered the church , wrote a pane - sulphureous or ambrosial seats ...
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... makes them only smile , makes him adore . An empire in his balance weighs a grain . They things terrestrial worship as divine ; His hopes , 10 FROM 1727 TO 1780 . CYCLOPĘDIA OF The Man whose Thoughts are not of this World,
... makes them only smile , makes him adore . An empire in his balance weighs a grain . They things terrestrial worship as divine ; His hopes , 10 FROM 1727 TO 1780 . CYCLOPĘDIA OF The Man whose Thoughts are not of this World,
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... things terrestrial worship as divine ; His hopes , immortal , blow them by as dust That dims his sight , and shortens his survey , Which longs , in infinite , to lose all bound . Titles and honours ( if they prove his fate ) He lays ...
... things terrestrial worship as divine ; His hopes , immortal , blow them by as dust That dims his sight , and shortens his survey , Which longs , in infinite , to lose all bound . Titles and honours ( if they prove his fate ) He lays ...
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... things . A fresher gale Begins to wave the wood , and stir the stream , Sweeping with shadowy gust the fields of corn : While the quail clamours for his running mate . Wide o'er the thistly lawn , as swells the breeze , A whitening ...
... things . A fresher gale Begins to wave the wood , and stir the stream , Sweeping with shadowy gust the fields of corn : While the quail clamours for his running mate . Wide o'er the thistly lawn , as swells the breeze , A whitening ...
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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.