Poems ...W. Scott, 1885 - 334 pages |
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Page 76
... Touch'd with a magnet had attracted his . His whisper'd theme , dilated and at large , Proves after all a wind - gun's airy charge , An extract of his diary - no more , A tasteless journal of the day before . He walk'd abroad , o ...
... Touch'd with a magnet had attracted his . His whisper'd theme , dilated and at large , Proves after all a wind - gun's airy charge , An extract of his diary - no more , A tasteless journal of the day before . He walk'd abroad , o ...
Page 101
... touch'd , and crying - Don't ! A poet , in his evening walk , O'erheard and check'd this idle talk : And your fine sense , he said , and yours , Whatever evil it endures , Deserves not , if so soon offended , Much to be pitied or ...
... touch'd , and crying - Don't ! A poet , in his evening walk , O'erheard and check'd this idle talk : And your fine sense , he said , and yours , Whatever evil it endures , Deserves not , if so soon offended , Much to be pitied or ...
Page 279
... touch'd my lip , though new . And unessay'd before , than wide they flew , Bursting their waxen bands , nor could sustain The deep - toned music of the solemn strain ; And I am vain perhaps , but I will tell How proud a theme I choose ...
... touch'd my lip , though new . And unessay'd before , than wide they flew , Bursting their waxen bands , nor could sustain The deep - toned music of the solemn strain ; And I am vain perhaps , but I will tell How proud a theme I choose ...
Contents
On a Plant of VirginsBower | 6 |
INTRODUCTORY NOTICE | 7 |
To my Cousin | 31 |
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