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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... wild - duck O'er the rough moss , and o'er the trackless waste The heath - hen flutters : pious fraud ! to lead The hot - pursuing spaniel far astray . [ A Summer Morning . ] With quickened step Brown night retires : young day pours in ...
... wild - duck O'er the rough moss , and o'er the trackless waste The heath - hen flutters : pious fraud ! to lead The hot - pursuing spaniel far astray . [ A Summer Morning . ] With quickened step Brown night retires : young day pours in ...
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... wild ; So flourished blooming , and unseen by all , The sweet Lavinia ; till , at length , compelled By strong ... wilds 44 Or bids you roar , or bids your roaring fall 17 POETS . JAMES THOMSON . ENGLISH LITERATURE . A Winter Landscape,
... wild ; So flourished blooming , and unseen by all , The sweet Lavinia ; till , at length , compelled By strong ... wilds 44 Or bids you roar , or bids your roaring fall 17 POETS . JAMES THOMSON . ENGLISH LITERATURE . A Winter Landscape,
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... wild ; but wanders on From hill to dale , still more and more astray , Impatient flouncing through the drifted heaps , Unbounded passion , madness , guilt , remorse ; Whence tumbled headlong from the height of life , They furnish matter ...
... wild ; but wanders on From hill to dale , still more and more astray , Impatient flouncing through the drifted heaps , Unbounded passion , madness , guilt , remorse ; Whence tumbled headlong from the height of life , They furnish matter ...
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... wild beasts the sylvan war to wage , And o'er vast plains their herds and flocks to feed ; Blest sons of nature they ! true golden age indeed ! Sometimes the pencil , in cool airy halls , Bade the gay bloom of vernal landscapes rise ...
... wild beasts the sylvan war to wage , And o'er vast plains their herds and flocks to feed ; Blest sons of nature they ! true golden age indeed ! Sometimes the pencil , in cool airy halls , Bade the gay bloom of vernal landscapes rise ...
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... wild vicissitudes of taste ; With every meteor of caprice must play , And chase the new - blown bubble of the day . Ah ! let not censure term our fate our choice , The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws the ...
... wild vicissitudes of taste ; With every meteor of caprice must play , And chase the new - blown bubble of the day . Ah ! let not censure term our fate our choice , The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws 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.