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... Nature's eye , rise , rise again , and make Perpetual day ; or let this hour be but A year , a month , a week , a natural day , That Faustus may repent and save his soul ! But all his prayers are of no use ; the hour strikes , the Evil ...
... Nature's eye , rise , rise again , and make Perpetual day ; or let this hour be but A year , a month , a week , a natural day , That Faustus may repent and save his soul ! But all his prayers are of no use ; the hour strikes , the Evil ...
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... nature has taught to dip the wing in water . This lake discharged its superfluities by a stream , which entered a dark cleft of the mountain on the northern side , and fell with dreadful noise from precipice to precipice till it was ...
... nature has taught to dip the wing in water . This lake discharged its superfluities by a stream , which entered a dark cleft of the mountain on the northern side , and fell with dreadful noise from precipice to precipice till it was ...
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... nature . It is this that makes Wordsworth's poetry different from that of the other nature poets . He describes a flower or a sunrise as lov- ingly and as minutely as they do , but he sees behind the beauty something which is as truly ...
... nature . It is this that makes Wordsworth's poetry different from that of the other nature poets . He describes a flower or a sunrise as lov- ingly and as minutely as they do , but he sees behind the beauty something which is as truly ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I THE LAYS OF THE FIGHTINGMEN | 13 |
THE SINGERS OF THE CHURCH | 26 |
THE MONKS AND THEIR BOOKS | 32 |
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