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by Samuel Johnson - 1809
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Johnson. Select works, ed. with intr. and notes by A. Milnes. Lives of ...

Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pages
...brightest ray, And pour on misty doubt resistless day; Should no false kindness lure to loose delight, Nor praise relax nor difficulty fright ; Should tempting...on fops her fatal dart Nor claim the triumph of a lettered heart; Should no disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor Melancholy* 's phantoms haunt thy shade...
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Gems of national poetry. Compiled and ed. by mrs. Valentine

Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...brightest ray, And pour on misty doubt resistless day ; Should no false kindness lure to loose delight, Nor praise relax, nor difficulty fright ; Should tempting...on fops her fatal dart, Nor claim the triumph of a lettered heart ; Should no disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor melancholy's phantom haunt thy shade...
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Poetic Treasures: Or, Passages from the Poets. Chronologically Arranged

Passages, John Allen Giles - English poetry - 1881 - 744 pages
...brightest ray, And pour on misty doubt resistless day ; Should no false kindness lure to loose delight, Nor praise relax, nor difficulty fright ; Should tempting...Nor melancholy's phantoms haunt thy shade ; Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man reversed for thee : Deign on the passing...
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Old favourites from the elder poets, with a few newer friends, a selection ...

Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 pages
...brightest ray, And pour on misty doubt resistless day ; Should no false kindness lure to loose delight, Nor praise relax, nor difficulty fright ; Should tempting...on fops her fatal dart, Nor claim the triumph of a lettered heart ; Should no disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor Melancholy's phantoms haunt thy shade,...
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The Fireside Encyclopaedia of Poetry: Comprising the Best Poems of the Most ...

Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...brightest ray, And pour on misty Doubt resistless day ; Should no false kindness lure to loose delight, Nor TATION OF WHAT constitutes a state Î Not high-raised battlement or diffuse her opiate fumes in vain ; Should Beauty blunt on fops her fatal dart, Nor claim the triumph...
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Specimens of English poetry. For the use of Charterhouse school

English poetry - 1883 - 338 pages
...loose delight, Nor praise relax, nor difficulty fright; Should tempting Novelty thy cell refrain, 16 And Sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain; Should...invade, Nor Melancholy's phantoms haunt thy shade; 20 Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man reversed for thee: Deign...
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With the poets: a selection of English poetry. [Ed.] by F.W. Farrar

Frederic William Farrar - English poetry - 1883 - 498 pages
...ray, And pour on misty doubt resistless day ; Should no false kindness lure to loose deliglit, Nor praise relax, nor difficulty fright ; Should tempting...Beauty blunt on fops her fatal dart, Nor claim the triumphs of a lettered heart ; Should no disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor Melancholy's phantoms...
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With the Poets: A Selection of English Poetry

Frederic William Farrar - English poetry - 1883 - 326 pages
...brightest ray, And pour on misty doubt resistless day ; Should no false kindness lure to loose delight. Nor praise relax, nor difficulty fright ; Should tempting...Beauty blunt on fops her fatal dart, Nor claim the triumphs of a lettered heart ; Should no disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor Melancholy's phantoms...
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed. and arranged by H. Morley

Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 pages
...brightest n*And pour on misty Doubt resistless day : Should no false Kindness lure to loose delight. Nor Praise relax, nor Difficulty fright : Should tempting...refrain. And Sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain : 376 TO iD 1760.] 377 Should Beauty blunt on fops her fatal dart, Nor claim the triumph of a letter'd...
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The Contemporary Review, Volume 47

Great Britain - 1885 - 932 pages
...brightest ray, And pour on misty doubt resistless day ; Should no false kindness lure to loose delight, Nor praise relax, nor difficulty fright ; Should tempting...on fops her fatal dart, Nor claim the triumph of a lettered heart ; Should no disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor melancholy's phantoms haunt thy shade...
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