The Feast of the Poets: With Notes, and Other Pieces in Verse |
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... gives me , dear Tom , a delight beyond measure , To find how you've mended your notions of pleasure ; For never was poet , whose fanciful hours Could bask in a richer abstraction of bowers , With sounds and with spirits , of charm to ...
... gives me , dear Tom , a delight beyond measure , To find how you've mended your notions of pleasure ; For never was poet , whose fanciful hours Could bask in a richer abstraction of bowers , With sounds and with spirits , of charm to ...
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... give " a great genius " -- one Mr. Landor ; ( 26 ) And Walter look'd up , too , and begg'd to propose A particular friend of his - one Mr. Rose : ( 27 ) But the God look'd at Southey , and shrugging his shoul- der , Cried , " When , my ...
... give " a great genius " -- one Mr. Landor ; ( 26 ) And Walter look'd up , too , and begg'd to propose A particular friend of his - one Mr. Rose : ( 27 ) But the God look'd at Southey , and shrugging his shoul- der , Cried , " When , my ...
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... give an amusing instance . In the third book of the Faerie Queene , canto 1. st . 14 , is the following passage : At length they came into a forest wyde , Whose hideous horror and sad trembling sound Full griesly seem'd : .... therein ...
... give an amusing instance . In the third book of the Faerie Queene , canto 1. st . 14 , is the following passage : At length they came into a forest wyde , Whose hideous horror and sad trembling sound Full griesly seem'd : .... therein ...
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... give his respects to all three , And say he'd be happy to see them to tea . These writers , though classed together , and equally denied admittance to Apollo's dinner table , either from ineligibility to his greater honours , or ...
... give his respects to all three , And say he'd be happy to see them to tea . These writers , though classed together , and equally denied admittance to Apollo's dinner table , either from ineligibility to his greater honours , or ...
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... give his harp a higher and more various strain in the fragment upon Columbus ; but the strings appear to have been in danger of snapping . It was ludicrous enough , however , and affords a singular instance of the habitual ignorance of ...
... give his harp a higher and more various strain in the fragment upon Columbus ; but the strings appear to have been in danger of snapping . It was ludicrous enough , however , and affords a singular instance of the habitual ignorance of ...
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