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... eye , or tongue So varied in discourse " ; down , indeed , to the present days , when Swinburne has repaid Landor all his praise of poets , almost every English poet has been generously just to his contemporaries , and almost every poet ...
... eye , or tongue So varied in discourse " ; down , indeed , to the present days , when Swinburne has repaid Landor all his praise of poets , almost every English poet has been generously just to his contemporaries , and almost every poet ...
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... eye shall memory bring , - I had continually to adduce the metre and diction of the Greek poets , from Homer to Theocritus inclusively ; and still more of our elder English poets , from Chaucer to Milton . Nor was this all . But as it ...
... eye shall memory bring , - I had continually to adduce the metre and diction of the Greek poets , from Homer to Theocritus inclusively ; and still more of our elder English poets , from Chaucer to Milton . Nor was this all . But as it ...
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... eyes perused With tearful vacancy the dampy grass That wept and glitter'd in the paly ray : And I did pause me on my lonely way And mused me on the wretched ones that pass O'er the bleak heath of sorrow . But alas ! Most of myself I ...
... eyes perused With tearful vacancy the dampy grass That wept and glitter'd in the paly ray : And I did pause me on my lonely way And mused me on the wretched ones that pass O'er the bleak heath of sorrow . But alas ! Most of myself I ...
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... eyes shall lie . Your monument shall be my gentle verse , Which eyes not yet created shall o'er - read ; And tongues to be your being shall rehearse , When all the breathers of this world are dead : You still shall live , such virtue ...
... eyes shall lie . Your monument shall be my gentle verse , Which eyes not yet created shall o'er - read ; And tongues to be your being shall rehearse , When all the breathers of this world are dead : You still shall live , such virtue ...
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... eye of our common consciousness . Yet even in this attempt I am aware that I shall be obliged to draw more largely on the reader's attention , than so immethodical a miscellany as this can authorize ; when in such a work ( the ...
... eye of our common consciousness . Yet even in this attempt I am aware that I shall be obliged to draw more largely on the reader's attention , than so immethodical a miscellany as this can authorize ; when in such a work ( the ...
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